Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

Summary information

Date

Wed Dec 08 1948 until Sun Jan 16 1949

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.

October 1948

November 1948

December 1948

January 1949

February 1949

Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

Christmas Exhibition: Useful Objects Under $10

Recent Acquisitions

Timeless Aspects of Modern Art

Photographs by Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Ted Croner, Lisette Model

American Paintings from the Museum Collection

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1946-07	1954-09	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2	1948-11	1949-01	Christmas Exhibition: Useful Objects Under $10
3	1948-11	1949-01	Recent Acquisitions
4	1948-11	1949-01	Timeless Aspects of Modern Art
5	1948-11	1949-02	Photographs by Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Ted Croner, Lisette Model
6	1948-12	1949-03	American Paintings from the Museum Collection

Artists

There were 8 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.

Saul Baizerman

Biographical statement American, 1889–1967

Born 1889 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1967

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Saul Baizerman

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Saul Baizerman was involved in 4 exhibitions across 2 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 with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1939-05	1939-09	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1942-12	1943-01	MoMA	Twentieth Century Portraits
2	1947-12	1948-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
3	1948-12	1949-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

Mario Carreño Herman Cherry

Herman Cherry

Biographical statement

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

Died

Nationality

Gender Male

External information resources for Herman Cherry

viaf.org

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Herman Cherry was involved in 6 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 1960s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1946-12	1947-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
2	1947-12	1948-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
3	1948-12	1949-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1953-12	1954-01	Tanager Gallery	Christmas Show: Works by 68 Artists
2	1958-01	1958-02	Tanager Gallery	Herman Cherry: Drawings and Paintings

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-01	1960-03	MoMA	Art Lending Service Retrospective

Mario Carreño

Biographical statement Chilean, born Cuba. 1913–1999

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

Died 1999

Nationality

Gender Male

External information resources for Mario Carreño

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Mario Carreño was involved in 14 exhibitions across 3 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 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1943-03	1943-06	MoMA	The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
2	1944-02	1944-05	MoMA	Modern Drawings
3	1944-03	1944-05	MoMA	Modern Cuban Painters
4	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
5	1945-12	1946-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Circus of Modern Art
6	1946-12	1947-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
7	1947-04	1947-06	MoMA	Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
8	1947-12	1948-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
9	1948-12	1949-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
10	1949-12	1950-03	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-12	1951-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
2	1952-09	1952-11	MoMA	Good Design
3	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1998-01	1998-04	MoMA	From the Collection: Drawing in Latin America

Chaim Gross

Biographical statement American, 1904–1991

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

Died 1991

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Chaim Gross

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Chaim Gross was involved in 16 exhibitions across 4 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 10 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1937-10	1937-11	Rockefeller Center	New Acquisitions: Dalí, Henry Moore, Chaim Gross
2	1938-05	1938-07	MoMA	Three Centuries of American Art
3	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	1941-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
3	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints
4	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
5	1946-02	1946-05	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Sculpture
6	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
7	1946-12	1947-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
8	1947-12	1948-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
9	1948-12	1949-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
10	1949-12	1950-03	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-12	1951-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
2	1951-12	1952-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1962-04	1962-08	MoMA	Fifty Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

A. Everett Austin, Jr.

Karl Priebe

Biographical statement

Born 1914 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1976

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for Karl Priebe

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Karl Priebe was involved in 4 exhibitions across 2 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 1940s,1950s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1945-12	1946-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Circus of Modern Art
2	1948-12	1949-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-12	1951-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
2	1955-12	1956-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

Nahum Tschacbasov

Biographical statement

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

Died

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for Nahum Tschacbasov

viaf.org

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Nahum Tschacbasov was involved in 3 exhibitions across 1 decades.

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

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1945-12	1946-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Circus of Modern Art
2	1947-12	1948-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
3	1948-12	1949-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

William Zorach

Biographical statement American, 1889–1966

Born 1889 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1966

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for William Zorach

Exhibitions

In this dataset, William Zorach was involved in 47 exhibitions across 7 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 22 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1930-12	1931-01	Crown Building	Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans
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	1933-05	1933-07	MoMA	American Sources of Modern Art (Aztec, Mayan, Incan)
6	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
7	1935-06	1935-09	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan
8	1936-01	1936-02	MoMA	New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
9	1937-06	1937-11	Rockefeller Center	Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan
10	1937-11	1937-12	Rockefeller Center	Paintings for Paris
11	1937-12	1938-01	Rockefeller Center	Transitions and Contrasts in Painting and Sculpture
12	1938-05	1938-07	MoMA	Three Centuries of American Art
13	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	1940-03	1940-04	MoMA	New Acquisitions: A Gift of Modern Sculpture
3	1940-10	1941-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
4	1941-03	1941-05	MoMA	New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture
5	1941-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
6	1941-07	1941-07	MoMA	Animals in Art; Designing a Stage Setting
7	1942-02	1942-04	MoMA	New Acquisitions: American Drawings
8	1942-03	1942-05	MoMA	Children's Festival of Modern Art
9	1942-08	1942-09	MoMA	New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture
10	1942-12	1943-01	MoMA	Twentieth Century Portraits
11	1944-02	1944-05	MoMA	Modern Drawings
12	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints
13	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
14	1946-02	1946-05	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Sculpture
15	1946-06	1946-09	MoMA	New Photographers
16	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
17	1946-12	1947-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
18	1947-04	1947-06	MoMA	Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
19	1947-12	1948-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
20	1948-12	1949-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
21	1948-12	1949-03	MoMA	American Paintings from the Museum Collection
22	1949-12	1950-03	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-12	1951-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
2	1951-12	1952-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
3	1953-04	1953-09	MoMA	Sculpture of the XXth Century

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-03		MoMA	Selections from the ALS
2	1960-03	1960-04	MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
3	1961-04	1961-08	MoMA	America Seen: Between The Wars

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1974-12	1975-03	MoMA	American Prints: 1913–1963
2	1979-11	1980-01	MoMA	Art of the Twenties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1981-10	1982-01	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions 1977–1981
2	1983-03	1983-05	MoMA	Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now
3	1985-12	1986-05	MoMA	American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2013-08	2014-01	MoMA	American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe

Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

B

Saul Baizerman

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (3)

C

Herman Cherry

Exhibitions

1940s (3)

1950s (2)

1960s (1)

Mario Carreño

Exhibitions

1940s (10)

1950s (3)

1990s (1)

G

Chaim Gross

Exhibitions

1930s (3)

1940s (10)

1950s (2)

1960s (1)

J

P

Karl Priebe

Exhibitions

1940s (2)

1950s (2)

T

Nahum Tschacbasov

Exhibitions

1940s (3)

Z

William Zorach

Exhibitions

1930s (13)

1940s (22)

1950s (3)

1960s (3)

1970s (2)

1980s (3)

2010s (1)

Acknowledgements