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Eliot Noyes

♂  American, 1910–1977

Eliot worked at MoMA from about 1940 to 1946 as Curator, Designer and Competition Judge , and he was head of the Department of Industrial Design from 1940–1946 . He has been in three exhibitions at MoMA, between 1940 and 1971.

Nine exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Artist
Smithsonian Competition

12 January to 3 March 1940

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

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Useful Objects of American Design under $10

26 November to 24 December 1940

Corning Glass Works, Russel Wright, Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., Rome, NY and Blenko Glass Co., Inc., Milton, WV, among others, were involved.

Designer
Photo of the exhibition Organic Design in Home Furnishings

24 September to 9 November 1941

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Architecture of Eric Mendelsohn, 1914–1940

26 November 1941 to 4 January 1942

Monroe Wheeler, Eliot Noyes and Erich Mendelsohn were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Wartime Housing

22 April to 21 June 1942

Eliot Noyes, Alice M. Carson and Don Hatch were involved.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition United Hemisphere Poster Competition

21 October to 24 November 1942

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Monroe Wheeler, René d'Harnoncourt and Eliot Noyes, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Modern China

16 April to 9 June 1946

Eliot Noyes, Eva Zeisel and Castleton China Co., New Castle, PA were involved.

Artist
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.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection

1 December 1970 to 31 January 1971

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