Stage Designs for the Ballet Society

Summary information

Date

Tue Jan 20 1948 until Mon Apr 19 1948

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.

1947

1948

October 1947

November 1947

December 1947

January 1948

February 1948

March 1948

April 1948

May 1948

June 1948

July 1948

Stage Designs for the Ballet Society

Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

Mies van der Rohe

100 Useful Objects of Fine Design (available under $100)

Music and Musicians

New Acquisitions

Portraits of Gertrude Stein by Picasso

Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner

Miró Mural

Lamb Wedge Lock Handle

In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1946-07	1954-09	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2	1947-09	1948-01	Mies van der Rohe
3	1947-09	1948-01	100 Useful Objects of Fine Design (available under $100)
4	1947-12	1948-02	Music and Musicians
5	1948-01	1948-03	New Acquisitions
6	1948-01	1948-03	Portraits of Gertrude Stein by Picasso
7	1948-02	1948-04	Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner
8	1948-03	1948-04	Miró Mural
9	1948-03	1948-05	Lamb Wedge Lock Handle
10	1948-04	1948-07	In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography

Artists

There were 6 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.

Horace Armistead

Biographical statement American, 1918–1975

Born 1918 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1975

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Horace Armistead

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Horace Armistead 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	1948-01	1948-04	MoMA	Stage Designs for the Ballet Society

Corrado Cagli

Biographical statement American, 1910–1976

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

Died 1976

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Corrado Cagli

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Corrado Cagli was involved in 8 exhibitions across 4 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 4 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1960s,1970s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1947-04	1947-06	MoMA	Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
2	1948-01	1948-03	MoMA	New Acquisitions
3	1948-01	1948-04	MoMA	Stage Designs for the Ballet Society
4	1949-06	1949-09	MoMA	Twentieth Century Italian Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1954-04	1954-06	MoMA	Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
2	1954-08	1954-09	MoMA	The Modern Movement in Italy: Architecture and Design

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-10	1961-01	MoMA	100 Drawings from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary

Esteban Francés

Biographical statement Spanish, 1913–1976

Born 1913 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1976

Nationality Spanish

Gender Male

External information resources for Esteban Francés

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Esteban Francés was involved in 5 exhibitions across 3 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1990s with 3 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1960s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1948-01	1948-04	MoMA	Stage Designs for the Ballet Society

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1968-03	1968-06	MoMA	Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-04	1991-09	MoMA	The Surrealist Drawing: A Selection from the Collection
2	1995-07	1995-10	MoMA	The Human Figure: A Modern Vision
3	1995-10	1996-01	MoMA	Drawings on Chance: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Joan Junyer

Biographical statement American, born Spain. 1904–1994

Born 1904 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1994

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Joan Junyer

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Joan Junyer was involved in 7 exhibitions across 3 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 4 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1970s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Dance and Theatre Design
2	1945-07	1945-09	MoMA	Stage Designs by Joan Junyer
3	1945-09	1945-11	MoMA	Costume Carnival
4	1948-01	1948-04	MoMA	Stage Designs for the Ballet Society

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-01	1950-05	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1957-03	1957-04	MoMA	Recent American Acquisitions

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1973-11	1974-01	MoMA	Painters for the Theatre: An Invitation to the Theatre Arts Collection

Isamu Noguchi

Biographical statement American, 1904–1988

Born 1904 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1988

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Isamu Noguchi

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Isamu Noguchi was involved in 55 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 10 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 3 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1930-04	1930-04	Crown Building	46 Painters and Sculptors under 35 Years of Age
2	1932-06	1932-10	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture
3	1932-10	1933-02	MoMA	American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932
4	1933-03	1933-05	MoMA	Sculptors' Drawings
5	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
6	1936-12	1937-01	MoMA	Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
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	1942-03	1942-05	MoMA	New Acquisitions and Extended Loans: Cubist and Abstract Art
2	1942-10	1942-10	MoMA	20th Century Sculpture and Constructions
3	1942-12	1943-01	MoMA	Twentieth Century Portraits
4	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints
5	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
6	1946-09	1946-12	MoMA	Fourteen Americans
7	1947-10	1948-01	MoMA	World of Illusion: Elements of Stage Design
8	1948-01	1948-04	MoMA	Stage Designs for the Ballet Society
9	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life
10	1949-11	1950-01	MoMA	Design Show: Christmas 1949

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
2	1951-01	1951-03	MoMA	Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
3	1951-02	1951-05	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
4	1951-05	1951-07	MoMA	Abstraction in Photography
5	1951-06	1951-07	MoMA	Modern Relief
6	1952-03	1952-04	MoMA	Human Quality in Creative Experience
7	1953-04	1953-09	MoMA	Sculpture of the XXth Century
8	1955-11	1956-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
9	1958-10	1958-11	MoMA	Philip L. Goodwin Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-05	1960-09	MoMA	Portraits from the Museum Collection
2	1960-12	1961-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
3	1961-12	1962-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
4	1964-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
5	1965-02	1965-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
6	1969-05	1969-09	MoMA	Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1975-09	1975-11	MoMA	Drawings: Recent Gifts
2	1977-11	1978-01	MoMA	Noguchi: The Sculptor as Designer
3	1979-05	1979-06	MoMA	Thirty Sculptors' Drawings
4	1979-08	1979-09	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Architecture and Design

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1985-02	1985-03	MoMA	Reinstallation of the Contemporary Galleries
2	1986-04	1986-09	MoMA	Sculptors' Drawings
3	1986-06	1986-09	42nd Venice Biennale	Isamu Noguchi: What is Sculpture?

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-01	1991-03	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Chuck Close, Head-On/The Modern Portrait
2	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
3	1991-12	1992-03	MoMA	Lighting from the Sixties and Seventies
4	1996-05	1996-09	MoMA	From the Collection: A Century of American Drawings
5	1997-02	1997-03	MoMA	Masterworks from the Florene May Schoenborn Bequest

#	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	2009-12	2012-02	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 1

#	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	2010-10	2011-02	MoMA	Abstract Expressionist New York: Rock Papers Scissor
4	2011-02	2013-03	MoMA	Plywood: Material, Process, Form
5	2012-07	2012-11	MoMA	Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000
6	2012-11	2013-07	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly

Kurt Seligmann

Biographical statement American, 1900–1962

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

Died 1962

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Kurt Seligmann

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Kurt Seligmann was involved in 29 exhibitions across 9 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,1980s,2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1936-12	1937-01	MoMA	Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-07	1941-09	MoMA	New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
2	1942-12	1943-01	MoMA	Twentieth Century Portraits
3	1944-02	1944-05	MoMA	Modern Drawings
4	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Dance and Theatre Design
5	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
6	1948-01	1948-04	MoMA	Stage Designs for the Ballet Society
7	1949-05	1949-07	MoMA	Master Prints from the Museum Collection
8	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1954-09	1954-11	MoMA	American Prints of the 20th Century
2	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-12	1961-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1963-07		MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
3	1965-12		MoMA	[Penthouse Exhibition]
4	1968-03	1968-06	MoMA	Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1974-08	1974-11	MoMA	Gods, Heroes, and Shepherds
2	1974-12	1975-03	MoMA	American Prints: 1913–1963
3	1976-07	1976-09	MoMA	Some American Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
4	1977-09	1977-12	MoMA	Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif
5	1977-09	1977-11	MoMA	Dream/Reality/Dream

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1987-08	1987-12	MoMA	Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
2	1994-10	1995-01	MoMA	A Century of Artists Books
3	1995-09	1996-01	MoMA	Impressions of Nature
4	1997-02	1997-05	MoMA	Fantastic Prints
5	1998-11	1999-02	MoMA	Miró's Black and Red Series: New Acquisitions

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009
2	2009-03	2009-09	MoMA	Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

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

Stage Designs for the Ballet Society

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

A

Horace Armistead

Exhibitions

1940s (1)

C

Corrado Cagli

Exhibitions

1940s (4)

1950s (2)

1960s (1)

1970s (1)

F

Esteban Francés

Exhibitions

1940s (1)

1960s (1)

1990s (3)

J

Joan Junyer

Exhibitions

1940s (4)

1950s (2)

1970s (1)

N

Isamu Noguchi

Exhibitions

1930s (8)

1940s (10)

1950s (9)

1960s (6)

1970s (4)

1980s (3)

1990s (5)

2000s (4)

2010s (6)

S

Kurt Seligmann

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (8)

1950s (2)

1960s (4)

1970s (5)

1980s (1)

1990s (5)

2000s (2)

2010s (1)

Acknowledgements