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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

Modern Allegories

19 August 1961 to 30 January 1962

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Alfred H. Barr, Jr.  American, 1902–1981

Artists

Francis Bacon
British, born Ireland. 1909–1992
17 exhibitions
Max Beckmann
German, 1884–1950
72 exhibitions
Peter Blume
American, 1906–1992
46 exhibitions
Marc Chagall
French, born Belarus. 1887–1985
96 exhibitions
Giorgio de Chirico
Italian, born Greece. 1888–1978
80 exhibitions
Salvador Dalí
Spanish, 1904–1989
59 exhibitions
Paul Delvaux
Belgian, 1897–1994
22 exhibitions
James Ensor
Belgian, 1860–1949
34 exhibitions
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848–1903
75 exhibitions
Morris Graves
American, 1910–2001
33 exhibitions
Paul Klee
German, born Switzerland. 1879–1940
132 exhibitions
Franz Kline
American, 1910–1962
21 exhibitions
René Magritte
Belgian, 1898–1967
28 exhibitions
Edvard Munch
Norwegian, 1863–1944
39 exhibitions
Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973
231 exhibitions
Alton Pickens
American, 1917–1991
16 exhibitions
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexican, 1896–1974
37 exhibitions
Stanley Spencer
British, 1891–1959
17 exhibitions
Yves Tanguy
American, born France. 1900–1955
53 exhibitions
Pavel Tchelitchew
American, born Russia. 1898–1957
59 exhibitions

New York Times Review of the exhibition

PUBLISHED

10 September 1961

NEW SEASON WARMS UP

By Stuart PRESTON

WHILE museums and galleries are slowly taking off their wraps for the 1961-62 season a veritable Mount Everest of a summit meeting of scholars, art historians and teachers is taking place this week in New York.

New York Times • page X27 • 550 words