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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

Machine Art

5 March to 29 April 1934

MoMA Staff

Director

Philip Johnson American, 1906–2005

Artists

Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3 exhibitions

The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co., New York, NY
American, est. 1901
8 exhibitions

American Radiator Co. Accessories Division
1 exhibition

American Radiator Co.
1 exhibition

American Sheet & Tin Plate Co.
1 exhibition

American Steel & Wire Co., Worcester, MA
American, established 1898
3 exhibitions

Atlantic Gear Works
1 exhibition

The Bingham Stamping & Tool Co.
1 exhibition

Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co.
3 exhibitions

Stanford Briggs
1 exhibition

Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., Providence, RI
American, founded 1833
3 exhibitions

L.D. Cahn Co.
2 exhibitions

Carnegie Steel Co.
1 exhibition

Chase Brass & Copper Co., Waterbury, CT
American, founded 1876
3 exhibitions

Conant Bros. Co.
1 exhibition

The Conover Co.
1 exhibition

Coors Porcelain Co., Golden, CO
American, est. 1910
9 exhibitions

P & F Corbin
1 exhibition

Corning Glass Works
American, est. 1851
15 exhibitions

Design Engineers Inc.
1 exhibition

Dictaphone Corporation
2 exhibitions

Eugene Dietzgen Company, New York, NY
2 exhibitions

Henry Disston & Sons, Inc.
American, established 1840
2 exhibitions

Distillers Products Corp.
1 exhibition

Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
4 exhibitions

Eimer & Amend, New York, NY
3 exhibitions

Electric Boat Co.
1 exhibition

Electrol Inc.
1 exhibition

Electromaster Inc.
1 exhibition

Eugene Dietzgen Co., Inc.
2 exhibitions

The Fay co.
1 exhibition

Fleetwings, Inc.
1 exhibition

Ford Motor Co.
3 exhibitions

Fostoria Glass Co.
6 exhibitions

Gerth & Gerth
1 exhibition

The Gorham Co., Providence, RI
1 exhibition

Lurelle Guild
American, 1898–1986
5 exhibitions

Hamilton-Standard Propeller Corp.
1 exhibition

Hanson Scale Co.
1 exhibition

Herman Miller Clock Co.
1 exhibition

Hoffman & Billings Manufacturing Company
1 exhibition

Josef Hoffmann
Austrian, 1870–1956
10 exhibitions

Frank Graham Holmes
American, 1878–1954
4 exhibitions

Holophane Co.
1 exhibition

Nathan George Horwitt
American, 1898–1990
8 exhibitions

Howe & Lescaze
1 exhibition

The International Nickel Co., Inc., New York, NY
1 exhibition

I.S. Pertofsky
1 exhibition

Jaeger Watch Co.
1 exhibition

Janes & Kirtland, Inc.
1 exhibition

Gustav Jensen
Nationality unknown
2 exhibitions

Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co., Woodhaven, NY
4 exhibitions

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
French, born Switzerland. 1887–1965
45 exhibitions

Leeds & Northrup Co.
1 exhibition

Lenox, Inc., Trenton, NJ
established 1889
6 exhibitions

Lily-Tulip Cup Corporation
1 exhibition

Louis C. Eitzen Co.
1 exhibition

The National Cash Register Co.
1 exhibition

National Tube Company
1 exhibition

Walter Von Nessen
American, 1889–1943
4 exhibitions

Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo, OH
American, est. 1903
2 exhibitions

Emil Piron
1 exhibition

Platinel Inc.
1 exhibition

Platinum Products Co.
1 exhibition

Polar Ware Company, Sheboygan, WI
2 exhibitions

Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., Rome, NY
est. 1929
12 exhibitions

Ritter Dental Mfg. Co., Inc.
1 exhibition

S.K.F. Industries, Inc., Hartford, CT
4 exhibitions

George Sakier
2 exhibitions

Scovill Mfg. Co., Plumbers Brass Goods Div., Waterbury, CT
American, established 1802
2 exhibitions

Scully Steel Products Co.
1 exhibition

Sholes Inc., New York
1 exhibition

The Silex Company Boston, MA (now Silex & Equipment Div., Bloomfield Industries, New York, NY)
2 exhibitions

The S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co.
1 exhibition

A. H. Staf
American
1 exhibition

Standard Oil Co. of Ohio
1 exhibition

Steuben Glass Works, Corning, NY
established 1903
5 exhibitions

Sullivan Shipyards, Inc.
American
2 exhibitions

Taylor Instrument Company, England
4 exhibitions

Walter Dorwin Teague
American, 1883–1960
8 exhibitions

The Brown Instrument Co.
1 exhibition

The Howell Co.
1 exhibition

Thonet Brothers
Austrian
5 exhibitions

The Torsion Balance Co.
1 exhibition

Kurt Versen
American, born 1901
6 exhibitions

Waters-Genter Co.
1 exhibition

Western Clock Co., LaSalle, IL
2 exhibitions

Westfield Manufacturing Corp.
2 exhibitions

Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., NY
American
5 exhibitions

Sven Wingquist
Swedish, 1876–1953
2 exhibitions

Russel Wright
American, 1904–1976
13 exhibitions

The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, CT
American
3 exhibitions

York Safe and Lock Co.
1 exhibition

Carl Zeiss, Inc.
German, founded 1846
1 exhibition

New York Times Review of the exhibition

PUBLISHED

4 March 1934

MACHINE ART ENTERS THE MUSEUM STAGE; The Wealth of Inspiration Offered to the Designer by Modern Industry Is Revealed in a New Exhibition

By Walter Rendell STOREY

THE machine age has been hailed as an authentic source of inspiration for today's decorative design, but the results achieved by the designer too often suggest that a greater understanding of it is necessary and a more careful selection of motifs.

New York Times • page SM12 • 1,471 words