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Ansel Adams

♂  American, 1902–1984

Ansel worked at MoMA from about 1940 to 1942 as Curator and Competition Judge . He has been in 35 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1937 and 1986.

38 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Photography 1839–1937

17 March to 18 April 1937

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Centuries of American Art

24 May to 31 July 1938

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Seven American Photographers

10 May to 30 September 1939

Man Ray, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

31 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

31 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition Image of Freedom

29 October 1941 to 1 February 1942

Charles Sheeler, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ansel Adams and Monroe Wheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Photographs at $10

3 December 1941 to 4 January 1942

Charles Sheeler, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Acquisitions: Photographs

13 January to 25 February 1942

Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Photographs of the Civil War and the American Frontier

3 March to 5 April 1942

Ansel Adams, Mathew B. Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Religious Folk Art of the Southwest

28 April to 13 June 1943

Edward Weston, Dorothy C. Miller, Ansel Adams and Patrocino Barela, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography

24 May to 17 September 1944

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Manzanar: Photographs by Ansel Adams of Loyal Japanese-American Relocation Center

10 November to 24 December 1944

Ansel Adams was involved.

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The Museum Collection of Photographs

20 June 1945 to 23 June 1946

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection

10 June to 31 August 1947

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Edward Steichen, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography

6 April to 11 July 1948

Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

27 July to 26 September 1948

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Color Photography

9 May to 4 July 1950

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction in Photography

1 May to 4 July 1951

Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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12 Photographers

12 July to 12 August 1951

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Christmas Photographs

29 November 1951 to 6 January 1952

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Then and Now

5–18 August 1952

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Diogenes with a Camera II

25 November 1952 to 8 March 1953

Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Aaron Siskind, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Family of Man

24 January to 8 May 1955

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photographs for Collectors

1–16 October 1960

Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Harry Callahan, among others, were involved.

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographer and the American Landscape

24 September to 1 December 1963

Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Arthur Drexler and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition From the McAlpin Collection

14 December 1966 to 12 February 1967

Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photography for Collectors

16 March to 20 June 1976

John Szarkowski, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Art for Corporations

17 April to 4 July 1978

Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Motherwell, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ansel Adams and the West

5 September to 28 October 1979

John Szarkowski and Ansel Adams were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Landscapes

9 July to 4 October 1981

Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Variants

12 December 1985 to 11 March 1986

Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.