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Berenice Abbott

♀  American, 1898–1991

Berenice Abbott has been in 41 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1932 and 1986.

41 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers

3–31 May 1932

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Horizons in American Art

14 September to 12 October 1936

Stuart Davis, Dorothy C. Miller, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and James Rosenquist, among others, were involved.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Artists' New York

28 January to 2 March 1942

Ben Shahn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth Century Portraits

9 December 1942 to 24 January 1943

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits

4 November to 7 December 1943

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, 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 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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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 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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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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Photo of the exhibition 70 Photographers Look at New York

27 November 1957 to 15 April 1958

Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott and Helen Levitt, 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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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 The Photographer's Eye

27 May to 23 August 1964

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

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Photo of the exhibition Once Invisible

20 June to 11 September 1967

John Szarkowski, Berenice Abbott, Andreas Feininger and Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, 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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Photo of the exhibition Berenice Abbott

10 December 1970 to 28 February 1971

John Szarkowski and Berenice Abbott were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs of Women

7 September to 30 November 1971

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Public Landscapes

11 September to 1 December 1974

Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Henri Cartier-Bresson, 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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Photo of the exhibition Photography: Recent Acquisitions, 1974–1976

6 May to 18 July 1976

Man Ray, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Artists by Artists

18 April to 26 June 1977

Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Man Ray, 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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New York/New York

11 September to 13 November 1978

Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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Views over America

4 June to 30 July 1979

Claes Oldenburg, Lyonel Feininger, John Marin and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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People Watching

1 October to 27 November 1979

Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Berenice Abbott and David Hockney, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition In the Twenties: Portraits from the Photography Collection

14 November 1979 to 16 March 1980

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, 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 Still Life

8 October 1981 to 3 January 1982

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

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Photo of the exhibition Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985

7 November 1985 to 7 January 1986

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