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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

United Hemisphere Poster Competition

21 October to 24 November 1942

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MoMA Staff

Competition Judge
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.  American, 1902–1981
Competition Judge
Frederick Cooper  Peruvian
Competition Judge
René d'Harnoncourt  American, 1901–1968
Competition Judge
Eliot Noyes  American, 1910–1977
Competition Judge
Monroe Wheeler  American, 1899–1988
Competition Judge
Competition Judge
Competition Judge

New York Times Review of the exhibition

PUBLISHED

21 October 1942

ARGENTINE ARTISTS WIN POSTER PRIZES; Five Get Awards in Contest for Designs to Promote Unity of Hemisphere

Although Argentina has not broken off diplomatic relations with the Axis powers, her artists won five prizes, more than went to any other Latin-American nation, in the competition held by the Museum of Modern Art for posters to help unite the Western Hemisphere against Axis aggression.

New York Times • page 6 • 596 words