Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

Summary information

Date

Wed Apr 27 1938 until Mon Jul 25 1938

Location

Rockefeller Center ^{type:exhibition building spaces}
14 W 49th Street ^{type:thoroughfare names}

Carried out by

The Museum of Modern Art

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Concurrent exhibitions

Exhibitions that overlap with this exhibition, in this dataset. Double-click an item in the timeline to view the corresponding exhibition page.

1938

January 1938

February 1938

March 1938

April 1938

May 1938

June 1938

July 1938

August 1938

September 1938

October 1938

Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

Wheaton College Competition

Three Centuries of American Art

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1938-06	1938-09	Wheaton College Competition

#	Start	End	Title
1	1938-05	1938-07	Three Centuries of American Art

Artists

There were 10 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.

André Bauchant Camille Bombois

André Bauchant

Biographical statement French, 1873–1958

Born 1873 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1958

Nationality French

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, André Bauchant was involved in 13 exhibitions across 5 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 6 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1950s,2000s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1933-05	1933-05	MoMA	Fruit and Flower Paintings
2	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America
3	1939-05	1939-09	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-10	1944-04	MoMA	Modern Primitives: Artists of the People
2	1942-03	1942-05	MoMA	Children's Festival of Modern Art
3	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
4	1946-02	1946-05	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting
5	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
6	1949-10	1950-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-03	1970-04	MoMA	Naive Paintings
2	1972-01	1972-02	MoMA	Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-09	MoMA	The Raw and the Cooked

Camille Bombois

Biographical statement French, 1883–1970

Born 1883 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1970

Nationality French

Gender Male

External information resources for Camille Bombois

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Camille Bombois was involved in 17 exhibitions across 4 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 8 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,1970s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America
2	1939-05	1939-09	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-12	1941-01	MoMA	We Like Modern Art
2	1941-10	1944-04	MoMA	Modern Primitives: Artists of the People
3	1942-03	1942-05	MoMA	Children's Festival of Modern Art
4	1945-03	1945-03	MoMA	What is Modern Painting?
5	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
6	1946-02	1946-05	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting
7	1946-06	1946-10	MoMA	Designed for Children
8	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-12	1951-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
2	1952-12	1953-01	MoMA	New Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
3	1953-12	1954-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival
4	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
5	1955-12	1956-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-03	1970-04	MoMA	Naive Paintings
2	1972-01	1972-02	MoMA	Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection

Adolf Dietrich

Biographical statement

Born ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died

Nationality

Gender

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Adolf Dietrich was involved in 1 exhibitions across 1 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

John Kane

Biographical statement American, born Scotland. 1860–1934

Born 1860 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1934

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for John Kane

Exhibitions

In this dataset, John Kane was involved in 33 exhibitions across 7 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 12 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1930-12	1931-01	Crown Building	Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans
2	1933-12	1934-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from 16 American Cities
3	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
4	1936-01	1936-02	MoMA	New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
5	1937-06	1937-11	Rockefeller Center	Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan
6	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America
7	1938-05	1938-07	MoMA	Three Centuries of American Art
8	1939-05	1939-09	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-10	1941-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
2	1941-03	1941-05	MoMA	New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture
3	1941-05	1941-10	MoMA	New Acquisitions: A Gift of Paintings from a Trustee
4	1941-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
5	1941-10	1944-04	MoMA	Modern Primitives: Artists of the People
6	1942-12	1943-01	MoMA	Twentieth Century Portraits
7	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints
8	1945-03	1945-03	MoMA	What is Modern Painting?
9	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
10	1946-02	1946-05	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting
11	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
12	1948-12	1949-03	MoMA	American Paintings from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-05	1960-09	MoMA	Portraits from the Museum Collection
2	1968-01	1968-03	MoMA	The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-03	1970-04	MoMA	Naive Paintings
2	1972-01	1972-02	MoMA	Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
3	1979-11	1980-01	MoMA	Art of the Twenties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-01	1991-03	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Chuck Close, Head-On/The Modern Portrait
2	1992-01	1992-04	MoMA	The William S. Paley Collection
3	1994-09	1994-10	MoMA	The Long View: Works from the Collection
4	1999-04	1999-10	MoMA	Post-war to Pop: Masterworks from MoMA's Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-09	MoMA	The Raw and the Cooked
2	2007-01	2007-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2007
3	2008-03	2008-07	MoMA	Glossolalia: Languages of Drawings

Séraphine Louis

Biographical statement French, 1864–1942

Born 1864 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1942

Nationality French

Gender Female

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Séraphine Louis was involved in 3 exhibitions across 2 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1970s with 2 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-03	1971-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: 20th-Century Pioneers
2	1972-01	1972-02	MoMA	Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection

Dominique-Paul Peyronnet

Biographical statement French, 1872–1943

Born 1872 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1943

Nationality French

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Dominique-Paul Peyronnet was involved in 10 exhibitions across 5 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1970s with 3 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America
2	1939-05	1939-09	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-10	1944-04	MoMA	Modern Primitives: Artists of the People
2	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1953-06	1953-10	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
2	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-03	1970-04	MoMA	Naive Paintings
2	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
3	1972-01	1972-02	MoMA	Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-09	MoMA	The Raw and the Cooked

René Rimbert Henri Rousseau

René Rimbert

Biographical statement

Born ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died

Nationality

Gender

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, René Rimbert was involved in 1 exhibitions across 1 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

Henri Rousseau

Biographical statement French, 1844–1910

Born 1844 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1910

Nationality French

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Henri Rousseau was involved in 66 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 17 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1960s,2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1931-05	1931-10	Crown Building	Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Lillie P. Bliss
2	1932-07	1932-10	MoMA	A Brief Survey of Modern Painting
3	1933-05	1933-05	MoMA	Fruit and Flower Paintings
4	1933-07	1933-09	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture
5	1933-10	1933-10	MoMA	Modern European Art
6	1934-05	1934-09	Crown Building	The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, 1934
7	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
8	1935-06	1935-09	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan
9	1936-03	1936-04	MoMA	Cubism and Abstract Art
10	1936-07	1936-09	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan
11	1936-12	1937-01	MoMA	Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
12	1937-06	1937-11	Rockefeller Center	Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan
13	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America
14	1939-05	1939-09	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-01	1940-03	MoMA	Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
2	1940-01	1940-03	MoMA	Modern Masters from European and American Collections
3	1940-10	1941-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
4	1941-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
5	1941-07	1941-07	MoMA	Animals in Art; Designing a Stage Setting
6	1941-10	1944-04	MoMA	Modern Primitives: Artists of the People
7	1942-03	1942-05	MoMA	Henri Rousseau
8	1942-12	1943-01	MoMA	Twentieth Century Portraits
9	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints
10	1945-03	1945-03	MoMA	What is Modern Painting?
11	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
12	1945-11	1946-02	MoMA	Museum of Modern Art Color Reproductions
13	1946-02	1946-05	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting
14	1946-06	1946-10	MoMA	Designed for Children
15	1946-07	1946-09	MoMA	Paintings from New York Private Collections
16	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
17	1949-05	1949-07	MoMA	Master Prints from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-08	1950-10	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
2	1951-06	1951-09	MoMA	Selections from 5 New York Private Collections
3	1952-01	1952-03	MoMA	Masterworks Acquired through the Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
4	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
5	1954-12	1955-02	MoMA	Modern Masterprints of Europe
6	1955-02	1955-04	MoMA	Fifteen Paintings by French Masters of the 19th Century from the Louvre and the Museums of Albi and Lyon
7	1955-03	1955-04	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions
8	1955-05	1955-09	MoMA	Paintings from Private Collections
9	1957-11	1958-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1964-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
2	1972-01	1972-02	MoMA	Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
3	1972-10	1973-01	MoMA	Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
4	1976-12	1977-03	MoMA	European Master Paintings from Swiss Collections: Post-Impressionism to World War II
5	1977-09	1977-11	MoMA	Dream/Reality/Dream

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10	1981-01	MoMA	Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
2	1981-08	1981-10	MoMA	Alfred H. Barr, Jr., 1902–1981
3	1985-02	1985-06	MoMA	Henri Rousseau

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1992-01	1992-04	MoMA	The William S. Paley Collection
2	1992-09		MoMA	Selections from the Collection
3	1992-09	1993-02	MoMA	Selections from the Collection
4	1993-07		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
5	1993-07	1993-08	MoMA	Masterworks from the Collection pre-1945
6	1994-03	1994-05	MoMA	Artist's Choice: John Baldessari
7	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Composing with the Figure
8	1999-11	2000-03	MoMA	Modern Starts: Things

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-08	MoMA	War
2	2000-03	2000-09	MoMA	The Raw and the Cooked
3	2000-05	2001-01	MoMA	Collection Highlights
4	2001-02	2002-02	MoMA	Collection Highlights
5	2002-06	2004-09	MoMA	To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
6	2004-11		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation
7	2006-01	2006-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006
8	2008-01	2008-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2008

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2012-01	2012-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012

Louis Vivin

Biographical statement French, 1861–1936

Born 1861 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1936

Nationality French

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Louis Vivin was involved in 12 exhibitions across 5 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 5 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,1960s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-10	1944-04	MoMA	Modern Primitives: Artists of the People
2	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
3	1946-07	1946-09	MoMA	Paintings from New York Private Collections

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1952-05	1952-06	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1952-12	1953-01	MoMA	New Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
3	1953-12	1954-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival
4	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
5	1955-12	1956-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1968-01	1968-03	MoMA	The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1972-01	1972-02	MoMA	Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
2	1975-12	1976-03	MoMA	A Museum Menagerie

Jean Ève

Biographical statement French, 1900–1968

Born 1900 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1968

Nationality French

Gender Male

External information resources for Jean Ève

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Jean Ève was involved in 2 exhibitions across 2 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1930s,1970s with 1 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,1970s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-04	1938-07	Rockefeller Center	Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1976-03	1976-06	MoMA	Photography for Collectors

Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

Rockefeller Center

MoMA

Artists

B

André Bauchant

Exhibitions

1930s (3)

1940s (6)

1950s (1)

1970s (2)

2000s (1)

Camille Bombois

Exhibitions

1930s (2)

1940s (8)

1950s (5)

1970s (2)

D

Adolf Dietrich

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

K

John Kane

Exhibitions

1930s (8)

1940s (12)

1950s (1)

1960s (2)

1970s (3)

1990s (4)

2000s (3)

L

Séraphine Louis

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1970s (2)

P

Dominique-Paul Peyronnet

Exhibitions

1930s (2)

1940s (2)

1950s (2)

1970s (3)

2000s (1)

R

René Rimbert

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

Henri Rousseau

Exhibitions

1930s (14)

1940s (17)

1950s (9)

1960s (1)

1970s (5)

1980s (3)

1990s (8)

2000s (8)

2010s (1)

V

Louis Vivin

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (3)

1950s (5)

1960s (1)

1970s (2)

È

Jean Ève

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1970s (1)

Acknowledgements