William S. Lieberman
♂ American, 1923–2005
William worked at MoMA from about 1948 to 1980 as Curator, Preparer, Arranger and Installer , and he was head of the Department of Drawings and Prints from 1960–1969 , head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1969–1971 and head of the Department of Drawings from 1971–1979 .
100 exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Portraits in Prints
1 June to 6 September 1948
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.
Print Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld and Matisse: Jazz: Gift of the Artist
1–31 October 1948
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Georges Braque
29 March to 12 June 1949
Georges Braque, William S. Lieberman, Margaret Miller and Henry R. Hope were involved.
Master Prints from the Museum Collection
10 May to 10 July 1949
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Prints by Gauguin, Vuillard, and Bonnard
26 July to 25 September 1949
William S. Lieberman, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: British Color Lithographs
12 September 1950 to 1 January 1951
William S. Lieberman, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and John Piper, among others, were involved.
3 July to 13 September 1951
William S. Lieberman, Alton Pickens, Gabor Peterdi and Rico Lebrun, among others, were involved.
18 September to 24 October 1951
William S. Lieberman and Max Beckmann were involved.
Picasso: His Graphic Art
13 February to 20 April 1952
Pablo Picasso and William S. Lieberman were involved.
Odilon Redon: Drawings and Lithographs
13 February to 20 April 1952
William S. Lieberman and Odilon Redon were involved.
9 September to 16 November 1952
William S. Lieberman, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Max Weber, among others, were involved.
Georges Rouault
31 March to 31 May 1953
William S. Lieberman, Georges Rouault and Monroe Wheeler were involved.
Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
23 June to 4 October 1953
Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
Jacques Villon: His Graphic Art
8 September to 15 November 1953
William S. Lieberman and Jacques Villon were involved.
8 September to 28 November 1954
William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.
Modern Masterprints of Europe
7 December 1954 to 1 February 1955
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Prints from Europe and Japan; Etchings by Matisse
4–31 May 1955
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
Prints by Nolde and Kirchner
8 November 1955 to 8 January 1956
Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, among others, were involved.
Toulouse-Lautrec
21 March to 6 May 1956
William S. Lieberman, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie were involved.
Recent Drawings U.S.A.
25 April to 5 August 1956
William S. Lieberman, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers and Ellsworth Kelly, among others, were involved.
Prints of Henri Matisse
27 June to 14 October 1956
Henri Matisse and William S. Lieberman were involved.
The Graphic Work of Edvard Munch
6 February to 3 March 1957
William S. Lieberman and Edvard Munch were involved.
Picasso: 75th Anniversary
4 May to 8 September 1957
Pablo Picasso, William S. Lieberman and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. were involved.
German Art of the 20th Century
2 October to 1 December 1957
Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.
29 January to 2 March 1958
Joan Miró, Georges Braque, William S. Lieberman and Giorgio Morandi were involved.
23 April to 18 May 1958
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Ten European Artists
31 December 1958 to 23 February 1959
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
Joan Miró
19 March to 10 May 1959
Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and James Thrall Soby were involved.
2 April to 31 May 1959
William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.
15 July to 15 October 1959
Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, William S. Lieberman and André Derain, among others, were involved.
27 January to 20 March 1960
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.
24 March to 17 April 1960
Georges Braque, William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst and André Derain, among others, were involved.
Portraits from the Museum Collection
4 May to 18 September 1960
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
11 October 1960 to 2 January 1961
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Fifty Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
10 April to 12 August 1962
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
Picasso in the Museum of Modern Art: 80th Birthday Exhibition
14 May to 18 September 1962
Pablo Picasso, William S. Lieberman and Dorothy C. Miller were involved.
Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure
23 May to 26 August 1962
William S. Lieberman, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller and Larry Rivers, among others, were involved.
European Print Acquisitions
18 October to 25 November 1962
William S. Lieberman, André Masson, Christian Rohlfs and Paul Signac, among others, were involved.
The Intimate World of Lyonel Feininger
16 January to 10 March 1963
William S. Lieberman and Lyonel Feininger were involved.
60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
6 August to 29 September 1963
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection
27 May 1964 to 23 March 1965
Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
Prints by Seventeen Artists
27 May 1964 to 23 March 1965
Pablo Picasso, William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn and André Derain, among others, were involved.
American Painters as New Lithographers
27 May to 29 July 1964
William S. Lieberman, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Motherwell, among others, were involved.
Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers
15 September to 24 October 1964
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.
The Prints of Masuo Ikeda
10 August to 19 September 1965
William S. Lieberman and Masuo Ikeda were involved.
44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
6 September 1965 to 23 January 1966
Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Odilon Redon and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.
Rauschenberg: 34 Drawings for Dante's Inferno
21 December 1965 to 22 March 1966
William S. Lieberman and Robert Rauschenberg were involved.
20 Drawings: New Acquisitions
2 August to 2 October 1966
Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Alberto Giacometti and Otto Dix, among others, were involved.
London/New York/Hollywood: A New Look in Prints
13 September to 2 November 1966
William S. Lieberman, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.
The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture
19 October 1966 to 2 January 1967
William S. Lieberman, Dorothy C. Miller, Shusaku Arakawa and Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama), among others, were involved.
1–9 November 1966
William S. Lieberman, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell and Jim Dine, among others, were involved.
Chagall: Aleko
14 December 1966 to 26 February 1967
William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall were involved.
The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection
21 December 1966 to 5 March 1967
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
28–30 April 1967
Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.
2 May to 4 June 1967
William S. Lieberman, Riva Castleman, Les Levine and Michael Snow, among others, were involved.
The Artist as His Subject
6 June to 17 September 1967
Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.
Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
26 June to 22 November 1967
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.
Lyonel Feininger: The Ruin by the Sea
1 August to 24 September 1967
William S. Lieberman, Lyonel Feininger and Eila Kokkinen were involved.
Jim Dine Designs for a Midsummer Night's Dream
8 August to 24 September 1967
William S. Lieberman, Jim Dine and Virginia Allen were involved.
Prints by Picasso: A Selection from 60 Years
11 October 1967 to 1 January 1968
Pablo Picasso and William S. Lieberman were involved.
Manhattan Observed
22 March to 1 July 1968
William S. Lieberman, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and George Grosz, among others, were involved.
2–27 October 1968
William S. Lieberman, Jean Dubuffet, Riva Castleman and Virginia Allen were involved.
Julio Gonzalez
21 January to 18 March 1969
Pablo Picasso, William S. Lieberman, Julio González and Josephine Withers were involved.
Kandinsky Watercolors
1 April to 11 May 1969
William S. Lieberman and Vasily Kandinsky were involved.
Tamarind: Homage to Lithography
29 April to 1 September 1969
William S. Lieberman, David Hockney, Josef Albers and William Gropper, among others, were involved.
George Grosz: Watercolors and Drawings
1 October to 16 November 1969
William S. Lieberman and George Grosz were involved.
Archipenko: The Parisian Years
20 July to 18 October 1970
William S. Lieberman, Aleksandr Archipenko, Wilder Green and William C. Agee were involved.
10 November 1970 to 21 April 1971
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and André Derain, among others, were involved.
Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and her Family
19 December 1970 to 1 March 1971
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Paul Cézanne, among others, were involved.
The Sculpture of Richard Hunt
25 March to 9 July 1971
William S. Lieberman, Wilder Green, Richard Hunt and Carolyn Lanchner were involved.
27 June to 10 October 1972
Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Marc Chagall and Paul Cézanne, among others, were involved.
Dubuffet: Persons and Places
9 November 1972 to 23 January 1973
William S. Lieberman and Jean Dubuffet were involved.
Drawings from the Kröller-Müller National Museum, Otterlo
24 May to 19 August 1973
Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.
Painters for the Theatre: An Invitation to the Theatre Arts Collection
19 November 1973 to 13 January 1974
Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.
Portraits
27 December 1973 to 24 February 1974
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.
Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France
13 June to 8 September 1974
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
German Drawing: The Expressionists
30 August to 10 November 1974
Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman, Vasily Kandinsky and George Grosz, among others, were involved.
In the Twenties
21 March to 15 June 1975
Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
A Jacques Villon Centennial
8 July to 21 September 1975
William S. Lieberman and Jacques Villon were involved.
Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse
5 August to 28 September 1975
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
Drawings: Recent Gifts
5 September to 11 November 1975
Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, William S. Lieberman and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.
9 December 1975 to 7 March 1976
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.
Cubism and Its Affinities
9 February to 9 May 1976
Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.
Some American Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
19 July to 12 September 1976
William S. Lieberman, Willem de Kooning, David Smith and Richard Lindner, among others, were involved.
Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
20 August to 14 November 1976
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Fred Williams: Landscapes of a Continent
10 March to 8 May 1977
William S. Lieberman and Fred Williams were involved.
Extraordinary Men
2 June to 17 July 1977
William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn, Jean Dubuffet and Paul Gauguin, among others, were involved.
Extraordinary Women
22 July to 20 September 1977
William S. Lieberman, Susan Rothenberg, Natalia Goncharova and Hannah Höch, among others, were involved.
American Drawn and Matched
20 September to 4 December 1977
William S. Lieberman, Jim Dine, Robert Morris and Tom Wesselmann, among others, were involved.
Mexican Art
16 March to 2 July 1978
William S. Lieberman, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others, were involved.
Nine Windows by Chagall
13 April to 30 May 1978
William S. Lieberman, Marc Chagall and Bernice Rose were involved.
A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
28 April to 4 July 1978
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
Artists and Writers
10 July to 3 October 1978
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.
Thirty Sculptors' Drawings
18 May to 6 June 1979
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
Gifts of Drawing
9 August to 13 November 1979
Joan Miró, Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.
Art of the Twenties
14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.