David Hockney: The Blue Guitar

Summary information

Date

Tue Apr 10 1979 until Wed Jul 11 1979

Location

MoMA ^{type:exhibition building spaces}
11 West 53rd St. ^{type:thoroughfare names}

Carried out by

The Museum of Modern Art

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Concurrent exhibitions

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1979

January 1979

February 1979

March 1979

April 1979

May 1979

June 1979

July 1979

August 1979

September 1979

October 1979

David Hockney: The Blue Guitar

Posters from the Collection

Prairie: Photographs by Robert Adams

Transformations in Modern Architecture

Projects: Video XXV

Gaetano Pesce: Projects for a Skyscraper

The Stage Show

Frank Stella: The Indian Bird Maquettes

Projects: Bill Viola

The Masterworks of Edvard Munch

The James Thrall Soby Bequest

Projects: Martín Chambi and Edward Ranney

Larry Rivers/Terry Southern: The Donkey and the Darling

Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto

Three Houses

Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection

Recent Acquisitions: Photography

Projects: Video XXVII

Thirty Sculptors' Drawings

Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Architectural Projects by Roger Ferri and Allan Greenberg

Views over America

Sound Art

Robert Peterson

Suzanne Harris: "The Tower of Power/The Pillar of Mercy, a Monument to Latter Day Ambiguity"

Steve Seaberg: "Here Come de Judge-ment"

Joan Thorne: Paintings

Sound (Spring 1979): Sam Schoenbaum

Video (Spring 1979): Kevin Boyle: She Called Me On The Telephone

Architecture (Spring 1979): Melvin Charney

Special Projects (Spring 1979)

The Altered Photograph

International Studio Program (Spring 1979)

Super 8 Film (Spring 1979): Bogdan Mync

Peter Kolb: Videotapes

Poetry (Spring 1979): Michael Robbins

Photography (Spring 1979): Laurie Simmons

Apple Brass Quintet

Flash Theater

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1979-01	1979-07	Posters from the Collection
2	1979-02	1979-05	Prairie: Photographs by Robert Adams
3	1979-02	1979-04	Transformations in Modern Architecture
4	1979-03	1979-04	Projects: Video XXV
5	1979-03	1979-04	Gaetano Pesce: Projects for a Skyscraper
6	1979-03	1979-05	The Stage Show
7	1979-03	1979-05	Frank Stella: The Indian Bird Maquettes
8	1979-03	1979-04	Projects: Bill Viola
9	1979-03	1979-04	The Masterworks of Edvard Munch
10	1979-03	1979-05	The James Thrall Soby Bequest
11	1979-03	1979-05	Projects: Martín Chambi and Edward Ranney
12	1979-04	1979-07	Larry Rivers/Terry Southern: The Donkey and the Darling
13	1979-04	1979-06	Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto
14	1979-04	1979-05	Three Houses
15	1979-05	1979-07	Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
16	1979-05	1979-12	Recent Acquisitions: Photography
17	1979-05	1979-06	Projects: Video XXVII
18	1979-05	1979-06	Thirty Sculptors' Drawings
19	1979-05	1979-08	Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
20	1979-06	1979-07	Architectural Projects by Roger Ferri and Allan Greenberg
21	1979-06	1979-07	Views over America
22	1979-06	1979-08	Sound Art

#	Start	End	Title
1	1979-04	1979-05	Robert Peterson
2	1979-04	1979-05	Suzanne Harris: "The Tower of Power/The Pillar of Mercy, a Monument to Latter Day Ambiguity"
3	1979-05	1979-06	Steve Seaberg: "Here Come de Judge-ment"
4	1979-05	1979-06	Joan Thorne: Paintings

#	Start	End	Title
1	1979-04	1979-06	Sound (Spring 1979): Sam Schoenbaum
2	1979-04	1979-06	Video (Spring 1979): Kevin Boyle: She Called Me On The Telephone
3	1979-04	1979-06	Architecture (Spring 1979): Melvin Charney
4	1979-04	1979-06	Special Projects (Spring 1979)
5	1979-04	1979-06	The Altered Photograph
6	1979-04	1979-06	International Studio Program (Spring 1979)
7	1979-04	1979-06	Super 8 Film (Spring 1979): Bogdan Mync
8	1979-04	1979-06	Peter Kolb: Videotapes
9	1979-04	1979-06	Poetry (Spring 1979): Michael Robbins
10	1979-04	1979-06	Photography (Spring 1979): Laurie Simmons
11	1979-04	1979-06	Apple Brass Quintet
12	1979-05	1979-05	Flash Theater

Artists

There were 2 persons who influenced this exhibition.

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David Hockney

Biographical statement British, born 1937

Born 1937 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died

Nationality British

Gender Male

External information resources for David Hockney

Exhibitions

In this dataset, David Hockney was involved in 72 exhibitions across 5 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1970s with 22 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 8 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1964-05	1965-03	MoMA	Prints by Seventeen Artists
2	1964-09	1964-10	MoMA	Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers
3	1964-11		MoMA	The Figure
4	1966-09	1966-11	MoMA	London/New York/Hollywood: A New Look in Prints
5	1967-08		MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
6	1968-03	1968-07	MoMA	Manhattan Observed
7	1969-04	1969-09	MoMA	Tamarind: Homage to Lithography
8	1969-12	1970-03	MoMA	Untitled Exhibition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-05	1970-08	MoMA	Pop Art Prints, Drawings, and Multiples
2	1972-06	1972-09	MoMA	Prints for Collectors
3	1972-10	1972-11	MoMA	Landscape
4	1972-10	1973-02	MoMA	Etchings Etc.
5	1973-11	1974-01	MoMA	Painters for the Theatre: An Invitation to the Theatre Arts Collection
6	1973-12	1974-02	MoMA	Portraits
7	1975-03	1975-06	MoMA	Points of View
8	1976-01	1976-03	MoMA	Drawing Now: 1955–1975
9	1976-05	1976-08	MoMA	Narrative Prints
10	1976-06	1976-09	MoMA	Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works
11	1976-11	1977-02	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976
12	1976-12	1977-02	MoMA	Rooms
13	1977-03	1977-05	MoMA	British Drawings
14	1977-04	1977-06	MoMA	Artists by Artists
15	1978-04	1978-07	MoMA	Art for Corporations
16	1978-07		MoMA	Selections from the ALS
17	1978-07	1978-10	MoMA	Artists and Writers
18	1978-07	1978-09	MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
19	1978-09		MoMA	NewYork/New York
20	1978-09	1978-11	MoMA	New York/New York
21	1979-04	1979-07	MoMA	David Hockney: The Blue Guitar
22	1979-10	1979-11	MoMA	People Watching

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-02	1980-04	MoMA	Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
2	1980-03		MoMA	Selections from the ALS
3	1980-03	1980-05	MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
4	1980-05	1980-09	MoMA	Around Picasso
5	1981-06	1981-09	MoMA	Summer Light
6	1981-09		MoMA	Handmade Paper
7	1981-10	1982-01	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions 1977–1981
8	1983-04	1983-06	MoMA	Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers
9	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books
10	1985-06	1985-06	MoMA	Installation of Painting and Sculpture Department
11	1986-07	1986-12	MoMA	Naked/Nude: Contemporary Prints
12	1987-06	1987-09	MoMA	BERLINART 1961–1987
13	1988-03	1988-07	MoMA	Contemporary Print Acquisitions, 1986–1988
14	1988-08	1988-11	MoMA	Following Matisse's Line
15	1989-04	1989-08	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection
16	1989-07	1989-11	MoMA	Painters for the Theater

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-02	1990-05	MoMA	Photography Until Now
2	1990-11	1991-03	MoMA	Still Life Into Object
3	1990-11	1991-03	MoMA	Gifts of the Associates: 1975–1990
4	1991-05	1991-08	MoMA	Seven Master Printmakers: Innovations in the Eighties
5	1991-11	1992-03	MoMA	For 25 Years: Gemini G.E.L.
6	1992-04	1992-09	MoMA	Contemporary European Prints
7	1993-03	1993-07	MoMA	Reading Prints
8	1993-07	1993-10	MoMA	Multiple Images: Photographs Since 1965 from the Collection
9	1994-01	1994-05	MoMA	For 25 Years: Brook Alexander Editions
10	1994-06	1994-09	MoMA	Modern British Drawings: A Selection from the Collection
11	1994-10	1995-01	MoMA	A Century of Artists Books
12	1995-01	1995-05	MoMA	Semblances
13	1995-05	1995-09	MoMA	Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970–1995
14	1997-01	1997-05	MoMA	The Maximal Sixties: Pop, Op, and Figuration
15	1997-05	1997-08	MoMA	Selections from the Collection
16	1999-02	1999-05	MoMA	Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from the Museum of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2004-11		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation
2	2005-03	2005-08	MoMA	Drawing from the Modern, 1945–1975
3	2005-04	2005-07	MoMA	Artists and Prints: Part 2
4	2005-09	2006-01	MoMA	Drawing from the Modern, 1975–2005
5	2006-01	2006-04	MoMA	The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now
6	2006-10	2007-01	MoMA	Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now
7	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009
8	2009-03	2009-09	MoMA	Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
9	2009-03	2009-06	MoMA	Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
10	2009-04	2010-01	MoMA	Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Robert Motherwell

Biographical statement American, 1915–1991

Born 1915 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1991

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Robert Motherwell

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Robert Motherwell was involved in 101 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 23 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 3 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1945-02	1945-03	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
3	1946-02	1946-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture
4	1946-09	1946-12	MoMA	Fourteen Americans
5	1948-09	1948-12	MoMA	Collage
6	1948-12	1949-03	MoMA	American Paintings from the Museum Collection
7	1949-10	1950-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-03	1950-05	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1951-01	1951-03	MoMA	Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
3	1951-06	1951-09	MoMA	Selections from 5 New York Private Collections
4	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
5	1955-02		MoMA	[Penthouse Exhibition]
6	1957-03	1957-04	MoMA	Recent American Acquisitions
7	1958-04	1958-05	Rockefeller Guest House	50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss
8	1959-05	1959-09	MoMA	The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1961-08	1962-04	MoMA	Modern Paintings
2	1961-10	1961-11	MoMA	The Art of Assemblage
3	1961-12	1962-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
4	1964-05	1964-07	MoMA	American Painters as New Lithographers
5	1964-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
6	1964-09	1964-10	MoMA	Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers
7	1965-05	1965-07	MoMA	American Collages
8	1965-10	1965-11	MoMA	Robert Motherwell
9	1966-02		MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
10	1966-11	1966-11	MoMA	Americans Today: 25 Painters as Printmakers
11	1967-03		MoMA	Members Collect Retrospective Exhibition
12	1967-03	1967-05	MoMA	Members Collect
13	1967-12	1968-09	MoMA	Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings
14	1969-02	1969-03	MoMA	Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
15	1969-05	1969-09	MoMA	Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
16	1969-06	1969-10	MoMA	The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
17	1969-09	1969-10	MoMA	Robert Motherwell: Lyric Suite
18	1969-11	1973-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
19	1969-12	1970-03	MoMA	American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-02	1971-03	MoMA	Recent American Acquisitions
2	1971-05	1971-10	MoMA	A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection
3	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
4	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	Summer Show
5	1971-07		MoMA	Summer Penthouse
6	1971-07	1971-11	MoMA	Ways of Looking
7	1971-11	1971-11	MoMA	American Prints from the International Program
8	1972-03	1972-05	MoMA	Drawn in America
9	1972-03		MoMA	Permanent Collection
10	1972-10	1973-02	MoMA	Etchings Etc.
11	1973-06	1973-09	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions, 1968–1973
12	1974-12	1975-03	MoMA	American Prints: 1913–1963
13	1975-04	1975-05	Clocktower Gallery	Collectors of the Seventies, Part I: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
14	1975-09	1975-12	MoMA	76 Jefferson
15	1976-06	1976-09	MoMA	Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works
16	1976-11	1977-02	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976
17	1977-01	1977-03	MoMA	Posters by Painters
18	1977-02	1977-04	MoMA	Maps
19	1978-04	1978-07	MoMA	Art for Corporations
20	1978-11	1979-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: American Prints
21	1979-04	1979-07	MoMA	David Hockney: The Blue Guitar

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-02	1980-04	MoMA	Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
2	1980-03		MoMA	Selections from the ALS
3	1980-03	1980-05	MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
4	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection
5	1980-10	1980-12	MoMA	The Painter and the Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics
6	1980-11	1981-01	MoMA	A Penthouse Aviary
7	1981-09		MoMA	Handmade Paper
8	1981-10	1982-01	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions 1977–1981
9	1982-03	1982-03	British Museum	A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981
10	1982-03	1983-03	MoMA	Masterpieces from the Collection
11	1982-06	1982-10	MoMA	For 25 Years: Prints from ULAE
12	1983-10	1984-01	MoMA	The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
13	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
14	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books
15	1985-09	1986-02	MoMA	Tatyana Grosman Gallery Inaugural Installation
16	1985-11	1986-04	MoMA	Contemporary Works from the Collection
17	1987-05	1987-07	MoMA	American Prints, 1960–1985
18	1987-06	1987-10	MoMA	Drawing since 1940
19	1987-11	1988-03	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection
20	1987-12	1988-02	MoMA	Gifts of Works on Paper by Robert Motherwell
21	1988-11	1989-02	MoMA	Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection
22	1988-11	1989-03	MoMA	Abstractions
23	1989-04	1989-08	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
2	1992-01	1992-04	MoMA	The William S. Paley Collection
3	1993-07		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
4	1994-01	1994-05	MoMA	For 25 Years: Brook Alexander Editions
5	1994-09	1995-01	MoMA	Drawing in Black and White: A Selection of Contemporary Works from the Collection
6	1994-10	1995-01	MoMA	A Century of Artists Books
7	1995-05	1995-09	MoMA	Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970–1995
8	1995-09	1996-01	MoMA	Impressions of Nature
9	1998-01	1998-04	MoMA	From the Collection: Drawing in Latin America
10	1998-02	1998-05	MoMA	Artists and Subjects: Picasso to Stella
11	1998-09	1999-01	MoMA	The New York School
12	1998-10	1999-02	MoMA	Dubuffet to de Kooning: Expressionist Prints from Europe and America
13	1999-04	1999-10	MoMA	Post-war to Pop: Masterworks from MoMA's Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2002-06	2004-09	MoMA	To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
2	2004-11		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation
3	2006-01	2006-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006
4	2007-01	2007-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2007
5	2008-01	2008-12	MoMA	Public Spaces Changes
6	2008-01	2008-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2008
7	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-10	2011-04	MoMA	Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture
2	2010-10	2011-02	MoMA	Abstract Expressionist New York: Ideas Not Theories: Artists and the Club 1942–1962
3	2012-01	2012-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012

David Hockney: The Blue Guitar

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Clocktower Gallery

MoMA PS1

Artists

H

David Hockney

Exhibitions

1960s (8)

1970s (22)

1980s (16)

1990s (16)

2000s (10)

M

Robert Motherwell

Exhibitions

1940s (7)

1950s (8)

1960s (19)

1970s (21)

1980s (23)

1990s (13)

2000s (7)

2010s (3)

Acknowledgements