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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

1949: 37 exhibitions

Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Ben Shahn and Paul Gauguin were exhibited most in 1949.

Work by Children from the Holiday Fair: Ages 4–8

1–27 February 1949

Victor D'Amico was involved.

Photo of the exhibition Hidden Talent Competition

1 February to 6 March 1949

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and Wallace K. Harrison, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition The Exact Instant

8 February to 1 May 1949

Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, René d'Harnoncourt and W. Eugene Smith, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition From Le Corbusier to Niemeyer: 1929–1949

15 February to 3 April 1949

Jean (Hans) Arp, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx were involved.

Photo of the exhibition The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club

15 March to 17 April 1949

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Morris Graves, among others, were involved.

Pictures for Children Aged 3–12 Years

18 March to 17 April 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Georges Braque

29 March to 12 June 1949

Georges Braque, William S. Lieberman, Margaret Miller and Henry R. Hope were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: A New Theatre

5–17 April 1949

Frank Lloyd Wright was involved.

Photo of the exhibition The House in the Museum Garden

12 April to 30 October 1949

Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen and Knoll Associates, New York, NY, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Roots of Photography

26 April to 24 July 1949

Edward Steichen, Julia Margaret Cameron, David Octavius Hill and William Henry Fox Talbot, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Lobmeyr Glass

26 April to 4 July 1949

Philip Johnson, Vera Lisková, J. & L. Lobmeyr, Vienna and Adolph Loos were involved.

Work from the Museum's Classes for NYC Public High Schools

26 April to 8 May 1949

Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

3 May to 17 July 1949

Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock and Umberto Boccioni, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Master Prints from the Museum Collection

10 May to 10 July 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Understanding Your Child Through Art: A Course for Parents

17–30 May 1949

Victor D'Amico was involved.

Photo of the exhibition Teaching Materials for N.Y.C. Public High Schools

7 June to 20 July 1949

Photo of the exhibition Twentieth Century Italian Art

28 June to 18 September 1949

Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Umberto Boccioni, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Art Nouveau from the Museum Collection

12 July to 5 September 1949

Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edvard Munch and Hector Guimard, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Oskar Kokoschka

19 July to 4 October 1949

Oskar Kokoschka, Margaret Miller and Duncan Ferguson were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Realism in Photography

26 July to 25 September 1949

Edward Steichen, Frederick Sommer, Ralph Steiner and Wayne Miller, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Prints by Gauguin, Vuillard, and Bonnard

26 July to 25 September 1949

William S. Lieberman, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Sculpture by Painters

3 August to 5 October 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Max Beckmann, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

3 August to 2 October 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Postage Stamp Design

3 August to 7 October 1949

Photo of the exhibition Anni Albers Textiles

14 September to 6 November 1949

Anni Albers was involved.

Photo of the exhibition Work from Art Classes

30 September to 30 October 1949

Victor D'Amico was involved.

Photo of the exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

5 October to 4 December 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition New Posters from 16 Countries

11 October to 20 November 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Ben Shahn and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen

11 October to 15 November 1949

Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt and Margaret Bourke-White, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

25 October 1949 to 22 January 1950

Marc Chagall, Ben Shahn, André Derain and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Polio Poster Competition

31 October to 20 November 1949

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Paintings by Japanese Children, Aged 6–12

2–27 November 1949

Photo of the exhibition Design Show: Christmas 1949

15 November 1949 to 8 January 1950

Isamu Noguchi, Saul Steinberg, Alvar Aalto and Corning Glass Works, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Paintings from the Museum Collection

29 November 1949 to 30 April 1950

José Clemente Orozco was involved.

Photo of the exhibition Roots of French Photography

29 November 1949 to 15 January 1950

Edward Steichen, Honoré Daumier, Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) and Édouard-Denis Baldus, among others, were involved.

Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

6 December 1949 to 26 March 1950

Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta and William Zorach, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Paul Klee

20 December 1949 to 19 February 1950

Paul Klee, James Thrall Soby and Margaret Miller were involved.

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