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George Nelson

♂  American, 1908–1986

George worked at MoMA about 1938 as Curator . He has been in 13 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1944 and 1968.

14 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Curator
Wheaton College Competition

28 June to 12 September 1938

Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen and Edward Durell Stone, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Design for Use

24 May to 22 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian and Constantin Brancusi, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage

21 February to 13 May 1945

Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Edward Durell Stone and Richard Neutra, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

5 October to 4 December 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Good Design

21 November 1950 to 28 January 1951

Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto and Edward Durell Stone, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Good Design

27 November 1951 to 27 January 1952

Philip Johnson, Saul Steinberg, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Architecture in the New York Area

10 June to 27 July 1952

Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright and Edward Durell Stone, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Good Design

23 September to 30 November 1952

Charles Eames, Edward Durell Stone, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition De Stijl

16 December 1952 to 15 February 1953

Piet Mondrian, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Good Design

22 September to 29 November 1953

Charles Eames, Corning Glass Works, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Good Design: 5th Anniversary

8 February to 20 March 1955

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Philip Johnson, Charles Eames and René d'Harnoncourt, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

17 December 1958 to 23 February 1959

Arthur Drexler, Man Ray, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design

Started 27 May 1964

Henri Matisse, Arthur Drexler, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection

27 September 1967 to 1 January 1968

Henri Matisse, Arthur Drexler, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.