The Wooden House in America

Summary information

Date

Tue Sep 09 1941 until Wed Oct 01 1941

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

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

August 1941

September 1941

October 1941

The Wooden House in America

New Acquisitions: A Gift of Paintings from a Trustee

A History of American Movies

New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

Techniques of Painting

Ancestral Sources of Modern Painting

Photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

Organic Design in Home Furnishings

New Acquisition: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1941-05	1941-10	New Acquisitions: A Gift of Paintings from a Trustee
2	1941-06	1941-10	A History of American Movies
3	1941-07	1941-09	New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
4	1941-08	1941-10	Techniques of Painting
5	1941-08	1941-09	Ancestral Sources of Modern Painting
6	1941-09	1941-10	Photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
7	1941-09	1941-10	Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes
8	1941-09	1941-11	Organic Design in Home Furnishings
9	1941-09	1943-07	New Acquisition: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night

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.

Gregory Ain

Biographical statement American, 1908–1988

Born 1908 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1988

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Gregory Ain

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Gregory Ain was involved in 5 exhibitions across 3 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1950s with 2 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America
2	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-05	1950-10	MoMA	Exhibition House by Gregory Ain
2	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2008-07	2008-10	MoMA	Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

Marcel Breuer

Biographical statement American, born Hungary. 1902–1981

Born 1902 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1981

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Marcel Breuer

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Marcel Breuer was involved in 43 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,2000s with 9 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s,1990s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1936-03	1936-04	MoMA	Cubism and Abstract Art
2	1937-02	1937-03	MoMA	Modern Architecture in England
3	1938-06	1938-09	Rockefeller Center	Wheaton College Competition
4	1938-12	1939-01	Rockefeller Center	Bauhaus: 1919–1928
5	1939-02	1939-03	Rockefeller Center	Three Centuries of American Architecture
6	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America
2	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
3	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
4	1945-01	1945-03	MoMA	The Lesson of War Housing
5	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House
6	1946-11	1947-01	MoMA	Modern Rooms of the Last Fifty Years
7	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden
8	1949-08	1949-10	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture in Architecture
9	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-05	1950-07	MoMA	Prize Designs for Modern Furniture
2	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
3	1952-06	1952-07	MoMA	Architecture in the New York Area
4	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
5	1953-08	1953-10	MoMA	Thonet Furniture
6	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1964-05		MoMA	Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
2	1968-09	1968-11	MoMA	Architecture of Museums

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1977-08	1977-10	MoMA	The Graphic Revolution: 1915–1935
2	1979-02	1979-04	MoMA	Transformations in Modern Architecture
3	1979-08	1979-09	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Architecture and Design
4	1979-11	1980-01	MoMA	Art of the Twenties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1981-07	1981-09	MoMA	Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1992-09		MoMA	Selections from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	Seeing Double
2	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
3	2005-12	2006-04	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Rotation 2
4	2007-04	2007-06	MoMA	75 Years of Architecture at MoMA
5	2008-04	2009-04	MoMA	Architecture and Design Rotation 2008
6	2008-07	2008-10	MoMA	Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
7	2009-05	2011-01	MoMA	What was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
8	2009-11	2010-01	MoMA	Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
9	2009-12	2012-02	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 1

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-09	2011-05	MoMA	Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen
2	2010-11	2011-05	MoMA	Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture
3	2011-02	2013-03	MoMA	Plywood: Material, Process, Form
4	2012-03	2013-03	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 2
5	2012-07	2012-11	MoMA	Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000

John Funk

Biographical statement

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

Died

Nationality

Gender

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, John Funk was involved in 4 exhibitions across 1 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 4 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 4 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America
2	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
3	1945-05	1945-09	MoMA	Tomorrow's Small House: Models and Plans
4	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House

Walter Gropius

Biographical statement German, 1883–1969

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

Died 1969

Nationality German

Gender Male

External information resources for Walter Gropius

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Walter Gropius was involved in 30 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 9 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1970s,1980s,1990s,2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1932-02	1932-03	Crown Building	Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
2	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
3	1936-03	1936-04	MoMA	Cubism and Abstract Art
4	1936-06	1936-09	MoMA	Modern Exposition Architecture
5	1937-02	1937-03	MoMA	Modern Architecture in England
6	1938-06	1938-09	Rockefeller Center	Wheaton College Competition
7	1938-12	1939-01	Rockefeller Center	Bauhaus: 1919–1928
8	1939-02	1939-03	Rockefeller Center	Three Centuries of American Architecture
9	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America
2	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
3	1945-01	1945-03	MoMA	The Lesson of War Housing
4	1945-08	1945-09	MoMA	Textile Design
5	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House
6	1947-06	1947-09	MoMA	Two Cities: Planning in North and South America
7	1949-08	1949-10	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture in Architecture
8	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
2	1952-12	1953-02	MoMA	De Stijl
3	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
4	1954-03	1954-05	MoMA	Signs in the Street
5	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1979-11	1980-01	MoMA	Art of the Twenties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1981-07	1981-09	MoMA	Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1992-09		MoMA	Selections from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
2	2008-07	2008-10	MoMA	Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
3	2009-11	2010-01	MoMA	Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
4	2009-12	2012-02	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 1

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2012-03	2013-03	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 2

Harwell Hamilton Harris

Biographical statement

Born 1903 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1990

Nationality

Gender Male

External information resources for Harwell Hamilton Harris

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Harwell Hamilton Harris was involved in 8 exhibitions across 2 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 with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America
2	1943-03	1943-04	MoMA	Five California Houses
3	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
4	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
5	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House
6	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
2	1958-10	1958-12	MoMA	Architecture Worth Saving

Carl Koch

Biographical statement

Born 1912 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1998

Nationality

Gender

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Carl Koch was involved in 9 exhibitions across 3 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 5 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,1950s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1939-02	1939-03	Rockefeller Center	Three Centuries of American Architecture
2	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America
2	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
3	1945-02	1945-05	MoMA	Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage
4	1945-05	1945-09	MoMA	Tomorrow's Small House: Models and Plans
5	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-05	1950-07	MoMA	Prize Designs for Modern Furniture
2	1954-03	1954-05	MoMA	Signs in the Street

Harris & Ewing/Times World Wide Photos

A. James Speyer

Biographical statement

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

Died

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for A. James Speyer

Exhibitions

In this dataset, A. James Speyer was involved in 1 exhibitions across 1 decades.

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

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America

Frank Lloyd Wright

Biographical statement American, 1867–1959

Born 1867 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1959

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Frank Lloyd Wright

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Frank Lloyd Wright was involved in 46 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 10 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1990s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1932-02	1932-03	Crown Building	Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
2	1933-01	1933-02	MoMA	Early Modern Architecture: Chicago 1870–1910
3	1938-01	1938-03	Rockefeller Center	A New House by Frank Lloyd Wright
4	1939-02	1939-03	Rockefeller Center	Three Centuries of American Architecture
5	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-11	1941-01	MoMA	Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect
2	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America
3	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
4	1945-05	1945-09	MoMA	Tomorrow's Small House: Models and Plans
5	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House
6	1946-06	1946-09	MoMA	A New Country House by Frank Lloyd Wright: Scale Model
7	1946-11	1947-01	MoMA	Modern Rooms of the Last Fifty Years
8	1947-04	1947-06	MoMA	Taliesin and Taliesin West
9	1949-04	1949-04	MoMA	Frank Lloyd Wright: A New Theatre
10	1949-08	1949-10	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
2	1952-01	1952-03	MoMA	Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for Johnson's Wax
3	1952-06	1952-07	MoMA	Architecture in the New York Area
4	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
5	1958-10	1958-12	MoMA	Architecture Worth Saving
6	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection
7	1959-04		MoMA	Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869–1959

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-09	1960-12	MoMA	Visionary Architecture
2	1961-08	1961-09	MoMA	Roads
3	1962-03	1962-05	MoMA	Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings
4	1963-11	1963-12	MoMA	Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright House Revisited
5	1964-05		MoMA	Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
6	1968-09	1968-11	MoMA	Architecture of Museums

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-12	1971-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection
2	1974-02	1974-09	MoMA	Architectural Models from the Collection
3	1975-02	1975-04	MoMA	Furniture from the Design Collection: Thonet, Guimard, Wright, and Rietveld

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1994-02	1994-05	MoMA	Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect
2	1999-11	2000-03	MoMA	Modern Starts: Things

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
2	2004-11	2005-03	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Inaugural Installation
3	2005-04	2005-10	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Rotation 2
4	2006-04	2006-07	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Rotation 3
5	2006-06	2006-09	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Herzog and De Meuron, Perception Restrained
6	2007-04	2007-06	MoMA	75 Years of Architecture at MoMA
7	2008-07	2008-10	MoMA	Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
8	2009-04	2010-02	MoMA	In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
9	2009-12	2012-02	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 1

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-09	2011-05	MoMA	Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen
2	2012-03	2013-03	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 2
3	2012-07	2012-11	MoMA	Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000
4	2013-10	2014-10	MoMA	Designing Modern Women 1890–1990

John Yeon

Biographical statement

Born 1910 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1994

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for John Yeon

Exhibitions

In this dataset, John Yeon was involved in 5 exhibitions across 3 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 3 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,1950s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-09	MoMA	The Wooden House in America
2	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
3	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

The Wooden House in America

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

A

Gregory Ain

Exhibitions

1940s (2)

1950s (2)

2000s (1)

B

Marcel Breuer

Exhibitions

1930s (6)

1940s (9)

1950s (6)

1960s (2)

1970s (4)

1980s (1)

1990s (1)

2000s (9)

2010s (5)

F

John Funk

Exhibitions

1940s (4)

G

Walter Gropius

Exhibitions

1930s (9)

1940s (8)

1950s (5)

1970s (1)

1980s (1)

1990s (1)

2000s (4)

2010s (1)

H

Harwell Hamilton Harris

Exhibitions

1940s (6)

1950s (2)

K

Carl Koch

Exhibitions

1930s (2)

1940s (5)

1950s (2)

P

S

A. James Speyer

Exhibitions

1940s (1)

W

Frank Lloyd Wright

Exhibitions

1930s (5)

1940s (10)

1950s (7)

1960s (6)

1970s (3)

1990s (2)

2000s (9)

2010s (4)

Y

John Yeon

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (3)

1950s (1)

Acknowledgements