Useful Objects

Summary information

Date

Wed Nov 21 1945 until Sun Jan 06 1946

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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October 1945

November 1945

December 1945

January 1946

February 1946

Useful Objects

The Museum Collection of Photographs

The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

Costume Carnival

Stuart Davis

Portraits of Ondine: Dance and Theatre Design

Museum of Modern Art Color Reproductions

Children's Holiday Circus of Modern Art

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1945-06	1946-06	The Museum Collection of Photographs
2	1945-06	1946-02	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
3	1945-09	1945-11	Costume Carnival
4	1945-10	1946-02	Stuart Davis
5	1945-11	1946-02	Portraits of Ondine: Dance and Theatre Design
6	1945-11	1946-02	Museum of Modern Art Color Reproductions
7	1945-12	1946-01	Children's Holiday Circus of Modern Art

Artists

There were 35 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.

Alvar Aalto

Biographical statement Finnish, 1898–1976

Born 1898 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1976

Nationality

Gender Male

External information resources for Alvar Aalto

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Alvar Aalto was involved in 32 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 7 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1932-02	1932-03	Crown Building	Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
2	1938-03	1938-04	Rockefeller Center	Alvar Aalto: Architecture and Furniture
3	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-12	1942-01	MoMA	Useful Objects Under $10
2	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
3	1945-11	1946-01	MoMA	Useful Objects
4	1946-11	1947-01	MoMA	Modern Rooms of the Last Fifty Years
5	1947-09	1948-01	MoMA	100 Useful Objects of Fine Design (available under $100)
6	1949-08	1949-10	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture in Architecture
7	1949-11	1950-01	MoMA	Design Show: Christmas 1949

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
2	1950-11	1951-01	MoMA	Good Design
3	1952-03	1952-06	MoMA	New Design Trends
4	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
5	1955-10	1956-01	MoMA	Glass from the Museum of Modern Art Collection
6	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-12	1961-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1964-05		MoMA	Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
3	1968-09	1968-11	MoMA	Architecture of Museums

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1984-09	1984-11	MoMA	Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1995-06	1995-09	MoMA	Civic Architecture
2	1998-02	1998-05	MoMA	Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	Modern Living II
2	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
3	2005-12	2006-04	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Rotation 2
4	2006-06	2006-09	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Herzog and De Meuron, Perception Restrained
5	2006-11	2007-11	MoMA	Digitally Mastered: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum's Collection
6	2009-12	2012-02	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 1

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2011-02	2013-03	MoMA	Plywood: Material, Process, Form
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

The Watertown Manufacturing Co., Watertown, CT Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, CT Trippe Mfg. Co.Yorkville Novelty Co.Precision Products Co.Zippo Mfg. Co.Kampa Mfg. Co.Baby World Co.Guilford Art Company Reynolds Metals Company Venus Corp.Livingston Plastics Corp.

Ekco Products Co., Chicago, IL Bachman Bros. Inc.Richards, Boggs and King, Inc.Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.Plastic Molded Products, Inc.Gudebrod Bros., Silk Co., Inc.Just Plastics, Inc.

Swift & Anderson, Inc., Boston, MA American Optical Corp., Southbridge, MA

Artek-Pascoe, Inc., New York, NY Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co., Woodhaven, NY General Lighting Co., Brooklyn, NY

Cambridge Glass Company, Cambridge, OH Imperial Glass Corp., Bellaire, OH Carrollton Metal Products Company, Carrollton, OH A.H. Heisey & Co., Newark, Ohio

Frank Paper Products

William J. Russell

Biographical statement American

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

Died

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for William J. Russell

Exhibitions

In this dataset, William J. Russell was involved in 4 exhibitions across 4 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1950s,2000s,2010s with 1 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1950s,2000s,2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1945-11	1946-01	MoMA	Useful Objects

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-11	1951-01	MoMA	Good Design

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2009-05	2011-01	MoMA	What was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-09	2011-05	MoMA	Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen

Klein's Gift Shop

Mario H.G. Torres

Biographical statement

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

Died

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for Mario H.G. Torres

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Mario H.G. Torres was involved in 2 exhibitions across 1 decades.

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

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1943-01	1943-02	MoMA	Brazil Builds
2	1945-11	1946-01	MoMA	Useful Objects

B.W. Photo Utilities

Almo, New York

Useful Objects

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

A

Alvar Aalto

Exhibitions

1930s (3)

1940s (7)

1950s (6)

1960s (3)

1980s (1)

1990s (2)

2000s (6)

2010s (4)

C

I

M

N

O

P

R

William J. Russell

Exhibitions

1940s (1)

1950s (1)

2000s (1)

2010s (1)

S

T

Mario H.G. Torres

Exhibitions

1940s (2)

U

Y

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