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Holger Cahill

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Holger worked at MoMA from about 1932 to 1942 as Curator and Competition Judge .

Six exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Curator
Photo of the exhibition American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932

31 October 1932 to 11 February 1933

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

Curator
American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750–1900

30 November 1932 to 14 January 1933

Joseph Pickett, Edward Hicks, Holger Cahill and John Bellamy, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition American Sources of Modern Art (Aztec, Mayan, Incan)

8 May to 1 July 1933

Diego Rivera, Max Weber, William Zorach and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

27 April to 24 July 1938

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller, Henri Rousseau and John Kane, among others, were involved.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter

15 April to 7 May 1940

Ben Shahn, John Sloan, William Gropper and Philip Guston, among others, were involved.

Curator
Art in War: OEM Purchases from a National Competition

13–25 March 1942

Elizabeth Olds, Carl Walters, Charles Coiner and Holger Cahill, among others, were involved.