Arthur Drexler
♂ American, 1921–1987
Arthur worked at MoMA from about 1951 to 1986 as Curator, Arranger and Installer , and he was head of the Department of Architecture and Design from 1956–1987 .
79 exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Le Corbusier: Architecture, Painting, Design
3 July to 12 August 1951
Arthur Drexler and Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) were involved.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for Johnson's Wax
15 January to 16 March 1952
Arthur Drexler and Frank Lloyd Wright were involved.
Two Houses: New Ways to Build
26 August to 13 October 1952
Arthur Drexler, Frederick Kiesler and R. Buckminster Fuller were involved.
Architecture for the State Department
6 October to 22 November 1953
Arthur Drexler, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Wallace K. Harrison and Gordon Bunshaft, among others, were involved.
Japanese Exhibition House
16 June 1954 to 15 October 1955
Arthur Drexler, Junzo Yoshimura and Natalie Hoyt were involved.
Japanese Calligraphy
22 June to 19 September 1954
Arthur Drexler, Mildred Constantine, Osawa Gakyù and Abe Shiro (pen Name: Suichiku), among others, were involved.
Two Graphic Designers: Bruno Munari and Alvin Lustig
18 October to 27 November 1955
Arthur Drexler, Mildred Constantine, Bruno Munari and Alvin Lustig were involved.
Glass from the Museum of Modern Art Collection
25 October 1955 to 8 January 1956
Arthur Drexler, Alvar Aalto, Corning Glass Works and Louis Comfort Tiffany, among others, were involved.
Latin American Architecture Since 1945
23 November 1955 to 19 February 1956
Arthur Drexler, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Edward Durell Stone and Henry Russell Hitchcock, among others, were involved.
20 December 1955 to 15 January 1956
Henri Matisse, Arthur Drexler and Greta Daniel were involved.
Textiles U.S.A.
29 August to 4 November 1956
Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Arthur Drexler and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.
Buildings for Business and Government
27 February to 28 April 1957
Arthur Drexler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Eero Saarinen, among others, were involved.
Gaudí
18 December 1957 to 23 February 1958
Arthur Drexler, Wilder Green, Antoni Gaudí and Henry Russell Hitchcock were involved.
20th Century Design from the Museum Collection
17 December 1958 to 23 February 1959
Arthur Drexler, Man Ray, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, among others, were involved.
Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings
11 February to 19 April 1959
Arthur Drexler, Eero Saarinen, Wilder Green and Wallace K. Harrison, among others, were involved.
The Package
9 September to 1 November 1959
Arthur Drexler, Mildred Constantine, Raymond Loewy and Ivan Chermayeff, among others, were involved.
Three Structures by Buckminster Fuller
22 September 1959 to 1 March 1960
Arthur Drexler and R. Buckminster Fuller were involved.
Buckminster Fuller
27 October to 22 November 1959
Arthur Drexler, Wilder Green and R. Buckminster Fuller were involved.
Art Nouveau
8 June to 6 September 1960
Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Vasily Kandinsky and Arthur Drexler, among others, were involved.
Visionary Architecture
29 September to 4 December 1960
Arthur Drexler, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), El Lissitzky and Theo van Doesburg (Christian Emil Marie Küpper), among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions
21 December 1960 to 5 February 1961
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Roads
14 August to 17 September 1961
Arthur Drexler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bernard Rudofsky and Pier Luigi Nervi, among others, were involved.
Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings
14 March to 6 May 1962
Arthur Drexler, Frank Lloyd Wright and Wilder Green were involved.
Design for Sport
15 May to 29 July 1962
Arthur Drexler, Mildred Constantine, Greta Daniel and Pirelli S.p.A., Milan, among others, were involved.
Le Corbusier: Buildings in Europe and India
29 January to 15 April 1963
Arthur Drexler and Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) were involved.
The Photographer and the American Landscape
24 September to 1 December 1963
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Arthur Drexler and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.
Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright House Revisited
1 November to 1 December 1963
Arthur Drexler, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ezra Stoller were involved.
Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
Started 27 May 1964
Henri Matisse, Arthur Drexler, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, among others, were involved.
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
1 August to 13 September 1964
Arthur Drexler and Nicholas Solovioff were involved.
Chasubles Designed by Henri Matisse
18 December 1965 to 9 January 1966
Henri Matisse and Arthur Drexler were involved.
Mies van der Rohe: Architectural Drawings from the Collection
2 February to 23 March 1966
Arthur Drexler and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were involved.
The Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
26 April to 30 May 1966
Arthur Drexler, Louis I. Kahn and Ludwig Glaeser were involved.
The Object Transformed
29 June to 5 September 1966
Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Arthur Drexler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
Villa Savoye: Destruction through Neglect
2–24 July 1966
Arthur Drexler and Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) were involved.
The Racing Car: Toward a Rational Automobile
27 September to 27 November 1966
Arthur Drexler and David Ash were involved.
The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal
24 January to 13 March 1967
Arthur Drexler, Michael Graves, Peter Eisenman and American Institute of Architects, among others, were involved.
Architectural Fantasies: Drawings from the Museum Collection
27 July 1967 to 12 February 1968
Arthur Drexler, Hans Hollein, Raimund Abraham and Walter Pichler were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection
27 September 1967 to 1 January 1968
Henri Matisse, Arthur Drexler, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.
Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967
25 January to 10 March 1968
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.
The York House Exhibition
28 February to 3 June 1968
Arthur Drexler, John Proctor Bishop, Joseph Paul D'Urso and Harry S. Fairhurst were involved.
10 June to 18 November 1968
Arthur Drexler, John Garrigan, Roman Cieslewicz and Jan Lenica, among others, were involved.
James Stirling: Three University Buildings
11 June to 4 August 1968
Arthur Drexler and James Stirling were involved.
Wall Hangings
25 February to 4 May 1969
Arthur Drexler, Mildred Constantine, Anni Albers and Jack Lenor Larsen, among others, were involved.
1 March to 30 April 1969
Arthur Drexler, Balthazar Korab, Theodore Waddell and Michael C. Cunningham were involved.
Painting for City Walls
17 April to 12 July 1969
Arthur Drexler, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jason Crum and Tania, among others, were involved.
Work in Progress: Architecture by Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph
2 October 1970 to 3 January 1971
Arthur Drexler, Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph and Kevin Roche, among others, were involved.
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.
Architecture for the Arts: The State University of New York College at Purchase
13 May to 22 June 1971
Arthur Drexler and Wilson Wright were involved.
Le Centre Beaubourg: A Modern Art Museum for Paris
23 December 1971 to 21 February 1972
Arthur Drexler was involved.
African Textiles and Decorative Arts
11 October 1972 to 31 January 1973
Arthur Drexler, John Garrigan, Roy Sieber and Katherine White Reswick were involved.
25 Recent Acquisitions
22 January to 18 March 1973
Jean (Hans) Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, Arthur Drexler and Alberto Giacometti, among others, were involved.
16 April to 1 August 1973
Arthur Drexler, Charles Eames and Mary Jane Lightbrown were involved.
Another Chance for Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives
12 June to 19 August 1973
Arthur Drexler was involved.
Tapestries by Helena Hernmarck
10 August to 10 October 1973
Arthur Drexler, John Garrigan and Helena Hernmarck were involved.
Architectural Models from the Collection
1 February to 29 September 1974
Arthur Drexler, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, were involved.
22 March to 7 April 1974
Arthur Drexler, Louis I. Kahn, Hans Namuth and Robert Lautman, among others, were involved.
Chasubles Designed by Henri Matisse
8 November 1974 to 29 January 1975
Henri Matisse and Arthur Drexler were involved.
The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts
29 October 1975 to 4 January 1976
Arthur Drexler, Richard Hunt, Henry Hobson Richardson and Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection
21 November 1975 to 11 January 1976
Arthur Drexler, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Antoni Gaudí and Enzo Mari, among others, were involved.
Posters from the Collection
26 March to 19 May 1976
Arthur Drexler, Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky and Herbert Bayer, among others, were involved.
New Glory: New Designs for Flags
11 September to 24 October 1976
Arthur Drexler, Joan Altabe, Donna Bott and Terrence Geiger, among others, were involved.
Wall Hangings: The New Classicism
8 April to 17 July 1977
Arthur Drexler, J. Stewart Johnson, Jack Lenor Larsen and Ed Rossbach, among others, were involved.
11 November 1977 to 8 January 1978
Arthur Drexler, Isamu Noguchi and J. Stewart Johnson were involved.
Le Corbusier: Architectural Drawings
20 January to 26 March 1978
Arthur Drexler and Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) were involved.
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.
Architectural Projects by Roger Ferri and Allan Greenberg
2 June to 15 July 1979
Arthur Drexler, Allan Greenberg and Roger C. Ferri were involved.
Liberty State Park: The Master Plan
12 October to 25 November 1979
Arthur Drexler and Robert Geddes were involved.
Buildings for Best Products
12 December 1979 to 10 February 1980
Arthur Drexler, Michael Graves, Charles Moore and Allan Greenberg, among others, were involved.
New York City Exposition and Convention Center
21 February to 30 March 1980
Arthur Drexler and James Ingo Freed were involved.
The Architecture of Richard Neutra: From International Style to California Modern
21 July to 12 October 1982
Arthur Drexler, Richard Neutra and Thomas S. Hines were involved.
Three New Skyscrapers
27 January to 29 March 1983
Arthur Drexler, Philip Johnson, Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Gordon Bunshaft, among others, were involved.
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Architecture and Design
Started 17 May 1984
Arthur Drexler was involved.
Ricardo Bofill and Leon Krier: Architecture, Urbanism, and History
26 June to 3 September 1985
Arthur Drexler, Ricardo Bofill and Leon Krier were involved.
Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition
10 February to 15 April 1986
Arthur Drexler and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were involved.