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Alvar Aalto

♂  Finnish, 1898–1976

Alvar Aalto has been in 19 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1932 and 1984.

19 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Modern Architecture: International Exhibition

9 February to 23 March 1932

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Frederick Kiesler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Alvar Aalto: Architecture and Furniture

15 March to 18 April 1938

Alvar Aalto was involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Useful Objects Under $10

2 December 1941 to 4 January 1942

Alvar Aalto, Corning Glass Works, Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., Rome, NY and Blenko Glass Co., Inc., Milton, WV, 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 Useful Objects

21 November 1945 to 6 January 1946

Alvar Aalto, Ekco Products Co., Chicago, IL, Susanne Wasson-Tucker and Cambridge Glass Company, Cambridge, OH, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Rooms of the Last Fifty Years

26 November 1946 to 26 January 1947

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 100 Useful Objects of Fine Design (available under $100)

16 September 1947 to 25 January 1948

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles Eames, Alvar Aalto and Corning Glass Works, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

3 August to 2 October 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Design Show: Christmas 1949

15 November 1949 to 8 January 1950

Isamu Noguchi, Saul Steinberg, Alvar Aalto and Corning Glass Works, 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.

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Photo of the exhibition New Design Trends

25 March to 1 June 1952

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Alvar Aalto, Anni Albers and Greta Daniel, 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 Glass from the Museum of Modern Art Collection

25 October 1955 to 8 January 1956

Arthur Drexler, Alvar Aalto, Corning Glass Works and Louis Comfort Tiffany, 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 Recent Acquisitions

21 December 1960 to 5 February 1961

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, 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 Architecture of Museums

25 September to 11 November 1968

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass

26 September to 27 November 1984

Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson, Aino Aalto and Otto Korhonen were involved.