William S. Rubin
♂ American, 1927–2006
William worked at MoMA from about 1957 to 1990 as Curator and Installer , and he was head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1969–1971 and head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1971–1988 .
39 exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage
27 March to 9 June 1968
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.
5–25 June 1968
William S. Rubin and Christo (Christo Javacheff) were involved.
In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King
31 October to 3 November 1968
William S. Rubin, Carroll Greene, Carroll Janis and Henry Geldzahler, among others, were involved.
The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
18 June to 5 October 1969
Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky, among others, were involved.
19 November 1969 to 27 January 1970
Henri Matisse and William S. Rubin were involved.
Recent Acquisitions V
5 June to 13 September 1970
Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Oskar Kokoschka, among others, were involved.
Barnett Newman, 1905–1970
21 July to 8 September 1970
William S. Rubin, Barnett Newman and Betsy Jones were involved.
Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection
11 February to 18 April 1971
Giorgio de Chirico, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta and William S. Rubin, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: 20th-Century Pioneers
13 March to 26 April 1971
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp and William S. Rubin, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions X
18 January to 5 March 1972
William S. Rubin, Jean Pougny (Ivan Puni), Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné and Dan Christensen, among others, were involved.
Picasso in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
3 February to 2 April 1972
Pablo Picasso and William S. Rubin were involved.
Permanent Collection
Started 29 March 1972
Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
New Acquisitions: Three Mirós
30 September to 8 November 1972
Joan Miró and William S. Rubin were involved.
Miró in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
9 October 1973 to 27 January 1974
Joan Miró and William S. Rubin were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
1–24 March 1974
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.
Adolph Gottlieb, 1903–1974
20 March to 30 April 1974
William S. Rubin and Adolph Gottlieb were involved.
Recent Acquisition: Painting and Sculpture
28 March to 28 April 1974
Max Ernst, William S. Rubin, Auguste Rodin and Joseph Cornell, among others, were involved.
The Paintings of Gerald Murphy
9 April to 19 May 1974
William S. Rubin, Gerald Murphy and Sarah Mazo were involved.
Five Recent Acquisitions
18 April to 22 June 1975
Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Pierre Bonnard and Edvard Munch, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
22 November 1976 to 1 March 1977
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.
European Master Paintings from Swiss Collections: Post-Impressionism to World War II
17 December 1976 to 1 March 1977
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Matisse: The Swimming Pool
11 March to 1 August 1977
Henri Matisse, William S. Rubin and Alicia Legg were involved.
25 May to 15 August 1977
William S. Rubin was involved.
Cézanne: The Late Work
7 October 1977 to 2 January 1978
Paul Cézanne, William S. Rubin, John Rewald and Theodore Reff were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
12 September to 26 November 1978
Paul Klee, Robert Rauschenberg, Arshile Gorky and William S. Rubin, among others, were involved.
Frank Stella: The Indian Bird Maquettes
12 March to 1 May 1979
Frank Stella and William S. Rubin were involved.
Four Recently Discovered Picabias and Other Modern Master Acquisitions
25 January to 22 April 1980
Jean (Hans) Arp, Roberto Matta, Georgia O'Keeffe and William S. Rubin, among others, were involved.
Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective
16 May to 30 September 1980
Pablo Picasso, William S. Rubin and Dominique Bozo were involved.
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
Started 17 May 1984
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern
27 September 1984 to 15 January 1985
Pablo Picasso, William S. Rubin and Kirk Varnedoe were involved.
Lee Krasner: A Retrospective
20 December 1984 to 12 February 1985
William S. Rubin, Lee Krasner and Barbara Rose were involved.
Henri Rousseau
21 February to 4 June 1985
Henri Rousseau, William S. Rubin, Carolyn Lanchner and Michel Hoog were involved.
Frank Stella: Works from 1970 to 1987
12 October 1987 to 5 January 1988
Frank Stella and William S. Rubin were involved.
Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism
24 September 1989 to 16 January 1990
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and William S. Rubin were involved.