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Eero Saarinen

♂  American, born Finland. 1910–1961

Eero worked at MoMA from about 1949 to 1952 as Curator and Competition Judge . He has been in 19 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1938 and 1979.

21 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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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 Williamsburg Competition

28 February to 15 March 1939

Eero Saarinen, Edward Durell Stone, Richard Neutra and Philip L. Goodwin, among others, were involved.

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Smithsonian Competition

12 January to 3 March 1940

Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, Edward Durell Stone and Philip L. Goodwin, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Architecture for the Modern School

16–30 September 1942

Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, William Lescaze and Elizabeth Mock, 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 Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44

24 May to 22 October 1944

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Frank Lloyd Wright, 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 Printed Textiles for the Home

12 March to 15 June 1947

Marcel Breuer, René d'Harnoncourt, Eero Saarinen and Alexander Girard, among others, were involved.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition Hidden Talent Competition

1 February to 6 March 1949

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and Wallace K. Harrison, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The House in the Museum Garden

12 April to 30 October 1949

Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen and Knoll Associates, New York, NY, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Modern Styles

11 July to 5 September 1950

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, 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.

Curator
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 Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

20 January to 15 March 1953

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Frank Lloyd Wright, 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 Buildings for Business and Government

27 February to 28 April 1957

Arthur Drexler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Eero Saarinen, 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 Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings

11 February to 19 April 1959

Arthur Drexler, Eero Saarinen, Wilder Green and Wallace K. Harrison, among others, were involved.

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Eero Saarinen, 1910–1961

9 September to 1 November 1961

Eero Saarinen was 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 Transformations in Modern Architecture

21 February to 24 April 1979

Arthur Drexler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer, among others, were involved.