Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection
Summary information
Date
Thu Feb 11 1971 until Mon Apr 19 1971
Location
- MoMA type:exhibition building spaces
- 11 West 53rd St. type:thoroughfare names
Concurrent exhibitions
Exhibitions that overlap with this exhibition, in this dataset. Double-click an item in the timeline to view the corresponding exhibition page.
Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation
# | Start | End | Title |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | ||
2 | Osaka I | ||
3 | Robert Irwin | ||
4 | The Nude: Thirty 20th-Century Drawings | ||
5 | Berenice Abbott | ||
6 | Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and her Family | ||
7 | Jasper Johns: Lithographs | ||
8 | Walker Evans | ||
9 | Alexander Rodchenko | ||
10 | Recent American Acquisitions | ||
11 | Untitled I | ||
12 | Recent Acquisitions: 20th-Century Pioneers | ||
13 | The Sculpture of Richard Hunt | ||
14 | Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual | ||
15 | Will Insley: Ceremonial Space |
Artists
There were 5 persons who influenced this exhibition.
Persons are ordered alphabetically by surname. Select a letter in the concertina to continue. Click on the person's name to view further information.
Giorgio de Chirico
Biographical statement Italian, born Greece. 1888–1978
Born 1888 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1978
Nationality Italian
Gender Male
External information resources for Giorgio de Chirico
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Giorgio de Chirico was involved in 114 exhibitions across 9 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 20 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2000s,2010s with 8 exhibitions.
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Painting in Paris | |||
2 | Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture | |||
3 | A Brief Survey of Modern Painting | |||
4 | Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture | |||
5 | Modern European Art | |||
6 | Gifts and Loans from the Collection of Mrs. Sadie A. May | |||
7 | International Exhibition of Theatre Art | |||
8 | Color Reproductions: Modern Watercolors and Pastels | |||
9 | Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition | |||
10 | Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan | |||
11 | Cubism and Abstract Art | |||
12 | Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators | |||
13 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism | |||
14 | Painting, Sculpture, Prints |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
2 | Three Modern Styles | |||
3 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
4 | New Lamps | |||
5 | Gallery Expansion and New Acquisitions | |||
6 | XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection | |||
7 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions | |||
8 | Giorgio de Chirico | |||
9 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
10 | Philip L. Goodwin Collection | |||
11 | Works of Art: Given or Promised |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection | |||
2 | Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection | |||
3 | Modern Allegories | |||
4 | Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection | |||
5 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
6 | The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florence May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection | |||
7 | The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection | |||
8 | Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage | |||
9 | Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection | |||
2 | Ways of Looking | |||
3 | Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art | |||
4 | 25 Recent Acquisitions | |||
5 | Works on Paper | |||
6 | Portraits | |||
7 | Gods, Heroes, and Shepherds | |||
8 | Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse | |||
9 | Drawings: Recent Gifts | |||
10 | Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America | |||
11 | Artists and Writers | |||
12 | The James Thrall Soby Bequest | |||
13 | Gifts of Drawing | |||
14 | Art of the Twenties |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Reinstallation of the Collection | |||
2 | Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries | |||
3 | Words and Pictures | |||
4 | A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981 | |||
5 | Giorgio De Chirico | |||
6 | The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art | |||
7 | Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings | |||
8 | Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture | |||
9 | Drawings Acquisitions | |||
10 | Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | |||
11 | European Drawing Between the Wars | |||
12 | Recent Acquisitions |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Anatomically Incorrect | |||
2 | Collection Highlights | |||
3 | To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection | |||
4 | Pencil: Drawings from the Collection | |||
5 | Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation | |||
6 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006 | |||
7 | Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 1 | |||
8 | Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009 |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
2 | Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983 | |||
3 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012 | |||
4 | Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration | |||
5 | Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language | |||
6 | Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly | |||
7 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013 | |||
8 | Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City |
Paul Delvaux
Biographical statement Belgian, 1897–1994
Born 1897 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1994
Nationality Belgian
Gender Male
External information resources for Paul Delvaux
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Paul Delvaux was involved in 27 exhibitions across 7 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 10 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1990s with 1 exhibitions.
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Twentieth Century Portraits |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
2 | XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Modern Allegories | |||
2 | Watercolor | |||
3 | 60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions | |||
4 | Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection | |||
5 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
6 | Recent Acquisitions: Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest | |||
7 | 20 Drawings: New Acquisitions | |||
8 | Drawings from the Museum Collection | |||
9 | Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage | |||
10 | Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Nude: Thirty 20th-Century Drawings | |||
2 | Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection | |||
3 | Works on Paper | |||
4 | Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France | |||
5 | Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse | |||
6 | Dream/Reality/Dream | |||
7 | A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art | |||
2 | Drawing since 1940 | |||
3 | Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Human Figure: A Modern Vision |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2010 | |||
2 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
3 | Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983 |
René Magritte
Biographical statement Belgian, 1898–1967
Born 1898 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1967
Nationality Belgian
Gender Male
External information resources for René Magritte
Exhibitions
In this dataset, René Magritte was involved in 52 exhibitions across 9 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 12 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 2 exhibitions.
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism | |||
2 | New Acquisitions: Gifts of the Advisory Committee | |||
3 | Painting, Sculpture, Prints |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
2 | The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture | |||
3 | Modern Art in Your Life |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
2 | XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection | |||
3 | Recent Acquisitions |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Modern Allegories | |||
2 | The Art of Assemblage | |||
3 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
4 | Watercolors | |||
5 | Recent Acquisitions: Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest | |||
6 | René Magritte | |||
7 | 20 Drawings: New Acquisitions | |||
8 | Art in the Mirror | |||
9 | Recent Acquisitions: Five European Painters | |||
10 | Drawings: Recent Acquisitions | |||
11 | The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection | |||
12 | Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection | |||
2 | A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection | |||
3 | Ways of Looking | |||
4 | Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art | |||
5 | Artists by Artists | |||
6 | Art of the Twenties |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture | |||
2 | Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985 |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Modern Still Life: Selections from the Drawings Collection | |||
2 | Dada and Surrealism: Selections from the Collection | |||
3 | Masterworks from the Collection pre-1945 | |||
4 | Master Prints from the Collection | |||
5 | Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970–1995 | |||
6 | Master Prints From the Collection | |||
7 | Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life | |||
8 | Sight Gags: Caricature, Grotesque, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Dream of Utopia/Utopia of the Dream | |||
2 | The Marriage of Reason and Squalor | |||
3 | Collection Highlights | |||
4 | About Face | |||
5 | To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection | |||
6 | Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation | |||
7 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006 | |||
8 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2007 | |||
9 | Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities | |||
10 | Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009 |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2010 | |||
2 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
3 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012 | |||
4 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013 | |||
5 | Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926–1938 |
Roberto Matta
Biographical statement Chilean, 1911–2002
Born 1911 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 2002
Nationality
Gender Male
External information resources for Roberto Matta
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Roberto Matta was involved in 64 exhibitions across 8 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 12 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2000s,2010s with 5 exhibitions.
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art | |||
2 | Modern Drawings | |||
3 | Painting, Sculpture, Prints | |||
4 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
5 | The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture | |||
6 | The Museum Collection of Painting | |||
7 | Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection | |||
8 | Large-Scale Modern Paintings | |||
9 | Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | |||
10 | Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art | |||
2 | Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art | |||
3 | Gallery Expansion and New Acquisitions | |||
4 | Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism | |||
5 | American Prints of the 20th Century | |||
6 | XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection | |||
7 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions | |||
8 | Matta | |||
9 | Second Floor Permanent Collection |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Art Lending Service Retrospective | |||
2 | 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection | |||
3 | Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection | |||
4 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
5 | Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection | |||
6 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
7 | Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers | |||
8 | Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection | |||
9 | The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection | |||
10 | Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage | |||
11 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
12 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection | |||
2 | The Artist as Adversary | |||
3 | Ways of Looking | |||
4 | Permanent Collection | |||
5 | Dream/Reality/Dream | |||
6 | The James Thrall Soby Bequest | |||
7 | Gifts of Drawing |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Four Recently Discovered Picabias and Other Modern Master Acquisitions | |||
2 | Reinstallation of the Collection | |||
3 | Recent Acquisitions: Drawings | |||
4 | Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture | |||
5 | Drawing since 1940 | |||
6 | Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | |||
7 | Master Prints from the Collection |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Drawn in America, 1898–1945 | |||
2 | Art of the Forties | |||
3 | The Surrealist Drawing: A Selection from the Collection | |||
4 | Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century | |||
5 | Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture | |||
6 | Modern Drawing: A Selection from the Collection, 1884–1961 | |||
7 | A Century of Artists Books | |||
8 | Fantastic Prints | |||
9 | From the Collection: Drawing in Latin America |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Drawings from the Modern 1880–1945 | |||
2 | Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation | |||
3 | Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 2 | |||
4 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2007 | |||
5 | Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009 |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Public Spaces Changes | |||
2 | The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times | |||
3 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
4 | Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983 | |||
5 | Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration |
Yves Tanguy
Biographical statement American, born France. 1900–1955
Born 1900 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1955
Nationality American
Gender Male
External information resources for Yves Tanguy
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Yves Tanguy was involved in 88 exhibitions across 9 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1990s with 16 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 4 exhibitions.
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Cubism and Abstract Art | |||
2 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism | |||
3 | Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan | |||
4 | Painting, Sculpture, Prints |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
2 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
3 | New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism | |||
4 | New Acquisitions: Photography by Alfred Stieglitz, European and American Art | |||
5 | Painting, Sculpture, Prints | |||
6 | What is Modern Painting? | |||
7 | The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture | |||
8 | The Museum Collection of Painting | |||
9 | Paintings from New York Private Collections | |||
10 | Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection | |||
11 | Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | |||
12 | Collage | |||
13 | Timeless Aspects of Modern Art | |||
14 | American Paintings from the Museum Collection | |||
15 | Master Prints from the Museum Collection | |||
16 | Modern Art in Your Life |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gallery Expansion and New Acquisitions | |||
2 | American Prints of the 20th Century | |||
3 | XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection | |||
4 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions | |||
5 | Yves Tanguy |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Selections from the ALS | |||
2 | Selections from the Art Lending Service | |||
3 | Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection | |||
4 | Modern Allegories | |||
5 | The Art of Assemblage | |||
6 | Fifty Drawings: Recent Acquisitions | |||
7 | Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection | |||
8 | From the Museum Collections: Family Portraits | |||
9 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
10 | Recent Acquisitions: Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest | |||
11 | Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage | |||
12 | Drawings: Recent Acquisitions | |||
13 | American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection | |||
2 | Ways of Looking | |||
3 | Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art | |||
4 | Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France | |||
5 | American Prints: 1913–1963 | |||
6 | Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America | |||
7 | Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976 | |||
8 | Dream/Reality/Dream | |||
9 | Arp on Paper | |||
10 | The James Thrall Soby Bequest | |||
11 | Gifts of Drawing | |||
12 | Art of the Twenties |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Recent Acquisitions: Drawings | |||
2 | Words and Pictures | |||
3 | A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981 | |||
4 | Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | |||
5 | European Drawing Between the Wars |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Drawn in America, 1898–1945 | |||
2 | Art of the Forties | |||
3 | The Surrealist Drawing: A Selection from the Collection | |||
4 | Selections from the Collection | |||
5 | Dada and Surrealism: Selections from the Collection | |||
6 | Modern Drawing: A Selection from the Collection, 1884–1961 | |||
7 | Joan Miró Prints and Books from New York Collections | |||
8 | A Century of Artists Books | |||
9 | The Human Figure: A Modern Vision | |||
10 | Impressions of Nature | |||
11 | Drawings on Chance: Selections from the Permanent Collection | |||
12 | Deformations: Apects of the Modern Grotesque | |||
13 | From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson | |||
14 | Fantastic Prints | |||
15 | Miró's Black and Red Series: New Acquisitions | |||
16 | Sight Gags: Caricature, Grotesque, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Anatomically Incorrect | |||
2 | What is a Print? | |||
3 | To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection | |||
4 | Drawings from the Modern 1880–1945 | |||
5 | Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation | |||
6 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006 | |||
7 | The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now | |||
8 | Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 1 | |||
9 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2008 | |||
10 | Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009 |
# | Start | End | Location | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2010 | |||
2 | The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times | |||
3 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
4 | Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983 | |||
5 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012 | |||
6 | Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly | |||
7 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013 |