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Alexander Girard

♂  American, 1907–1993

Alexander worked at MoMA from about 1949 to 1955 as Curator, Designer, Installer and Competition Judge . He has been in eight exhibitions at MoMA, between 1947 and 1979.

12 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Artist
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.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

5 October to 4 December 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Curator
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.

Competition Judge
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.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Good Design

23 September to 30 November 1952

Charles Eames, Edward Durell Stone, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition De Stijl

16 December 1952 to 15 February 1953

Piet Mondrian, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, among others, were involved.

Designer
Photo of the exhibition Good Design

22 September to 29 November 1953

Charles Eames, Corning Glass Works, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Good Design

22 September to 29 November 1953

Charles Eames, Corning Glass Works, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.

Artist
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.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Textiles and Ornamental Arts in India

11 April to 25 September 1955

Monroe Wheeler, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. and Alexander Girard were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Textiles U.S.A.

29 August to 4 November 1956

Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Arthur Drexler and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.

Artist
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.