The House in the Museum Garden

Summary information

Date

Tue Apr 12 1949 until Sun Oct 30 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.

1948

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October 1948

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December 1948

January 1949

February

March 1949

April

May 1949

June

July 1949

August 1949

September

October 1949

November

December 1949

January 1950

February

March 1950

April

May 1950

The House in the Museum Garden

Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

The Exact Instant

The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club

Pictures for Children Aged 3–12 Years

Georges Braque

Frank Lloyd Wright: A New Theatre

Lobmeyr Glass

Roots of Photography

Recent Acquisitions

Master Prints from the Museum Collection

Twentieth Century Italian Art

Art Nouveau from the Museum Collection

Oskar Kokoschka

Realism in Photography

Prints by Gauguin, Vuillard, and Bonnard

Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

Sculpture by Painters

Anni Albers Textiles

Modern Art in Your Life

Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen

New Posters from 16 Countries

Recent Acquisitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1946-07	1954-09	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2	1949-02	1949-05	The Exact Instant
3	1949-03	1949-04	The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club
4	1949-03	1949-04	Pictures for Children Aged 3–12 Years
5	1949-03	1949-06	Georges Braque
6	1949-04	1949-04	Frank Lloyd Wright: A New Theatre
7	1949-04	1949-07	Lobmeyr Glass
8	1949-04	1949-07	Roots of Photography
9	1949-05	1949-07	Recent Acquisitions
10	1949-05	1949-07	Master Prints from the Museum Collection
11	1949-06	1949-09	Twentieth Century Italian Art
12	1949-07	1949-09	Art Nouveau from the Museum Collection
13	1949-07	1949-10	Oskar Kokoschka
14	1949-07	1949-09	Realism in Photography
15	1949-07	1949-09	Prints by Gauguin, Vuillard, and Bonnard
16	1949-08	1949-10	Painting and Sculpture in Architecture
17	1949-08	1949-10	Sculpture by Painters
18	1949-09	1949-11	Anni Albers Textiles
19	1949-10	1949-12	Modern Art in Your Life
20	1949-10	1949-11	Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen
21	1949-10	1949-11	New Posters from 16 Countries
22	1949-10	1950-01	Recent Acquisitions

Artists

There were 66 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.

Southern Cypress Manufacturing Association

Benjamin Baldwin Antonio Bonet Marcel Breuer

Antonio Bonet

Biographical statement Spanish, 1913–1989

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

Died 1989

Nationality Spanish

Gender Male

External information resources for Antonio Bonet

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Antonio Bonet was involved in 9 exhibitions across 4 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,2000s with 3 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1990s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
2	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden
3	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1955-11	1956-02	MoMA	Latin American Architecture Since 1945
2	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	Modern Living II
2	2005-12	2006-04	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Rotation 2
3	2009-05	2011-01	MoMA	What was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

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

Benjamin Baldwin

Biographical statement American, 1913–1993

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

Died 1993

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Benjamin Baldwin

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Benjamin Baldwin was involved in 5 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 1950s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden
2	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life
3	1949-11	1950-01	MoMA	Design Show: Christmas 1949

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-05	1950-07	MoMA	Prize Designs for Modern Furniture
2	1950-11	1951-01	MoMA	Good Design

Arundell Clarke

Biographical statement

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

Died

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for Arundell Clarke

viaf.org

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Arundell Clarke was involved in 8 exhibitions across 2 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 6 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden
2	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-11	1951-01	MoMA	Good Design
2	1951-11	1952-01	MoMA	Good Design
3	1952-09	1952-11	MoMA	Good Design
4	1953-09	1953-11	MoMA	Good Design
5	1955-02	1955-03	MoMA	Good Design: 5th Anniversary
6	1956-08	1956-11	MoMA	Textiles U.S.A.

Charles Eames

Biographical statement American, 1907–1978

Born 1907 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1978

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Charles Eames

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Charles Eames was involved in 35 exhibitions across 7 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 13 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1960s,1970s,1990s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
2	1945-02	1945-05	MoMA	Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage
3	1946-03	1946-04	MoMA	New Furniture Designed by Charles Eames
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	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden
7	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	1950-08	1950-09	MoMA	Photographs by 51 Photographers
4	1950-11	1951-01	MoMA	Good Design
5	1951-05	1951-07	MoMA	Abstraction in Photography
6	1951-11	1952-01	MoMA	Good Design
7	1952-09	1952-11	MoMA	Good Design
8	1952-12	1953-02	MoMA	De Stijl
9	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
10	1953-09	1953-11	MoMA	Good Design
11	1955-02	1955-03	MoMA	Good Design: 5th Anniversary
12	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
13	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

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1973-04	1973-08	MoMA	Charles Eames Furniture from the Design Collection
2	1978-08	1978-11	MoMA	Charles Eames, 1907–1978

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
2	1995-02	1995-06	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions

#	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	2008-07	2008-10	MoMA	Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
6	2009-05	2011-01	MoMA	What was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2011-02	2013-03	MoMA	Plywood: Material, Process, Form
2	2012-07	2012-11	MoMA	Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000
3	2013-10	2014-10	MoMA	Designing Modern Women 1890–1990

Bazaar Français

Jorge Ferrari Hardoy

Biographical statement Argentine, 1914–1977

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

Died 1977

Nationality

Gender Male

External information resources for Jorge Ferrari Hardoy

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy was involved in 5 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 1950s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
2	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden
3	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
2	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

Harry Goldman

Biographical statement

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

Died

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for Harry Goldman

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Harry Goldman 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	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden

Eszter Haraszty Jorge Ferrari Hardoy

Eszter Haraszty

Biographical statement American, born Hungary. 1920–1994

Born 1920 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1994

Nationality American

Gender Female

External information resources for Eszter Haraszty

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Eszter Haraszty 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	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1951-11	1952-01	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	2013-10	2014-10	MoMA	Designing Modern Women 1890–1990

The Gold-Mersereau Company, Inc.Pryne & Co., Inc.William L. Barrell Company, Inc.Nicholson & Galloway, Inc.Randolph Laboratories, Inc.J.P. Duffy Company, Inc.Hope's Window, Inc.Book & Record Shop, Inc.Geo E. Maillinson Importing Co., Inc.Rollo, Johnson & Siedler, Inc.Marsh Wall Products, Inc.DuBois Fence & Garden Co., Inc.H.E. Fletcher Co., Inc.J.J. Haggerty, Inc.

Creative Playthings, Princeton, New Jersey

Juan Kurchan

Biographical statement Argentine, 1913–1975

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

Died 1975

Nationality

Gender Male

External information resources for Juan Kurchan

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Juan Kurchan was involved in 3 exhibitions across 2 decades.

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

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden
2	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

Vagn Larsen

Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI William Machado

William Machado

Biographical statement

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

Died

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for William Machado

Exhibitions

In this dataset, William Machado 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 1950s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden
2	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life
3	1949-11	1950-01	MoMA	Design Show: Christmas 1949

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

Kurt Versen Co., Englewood, NJ Design Unit New York, New York, NY Knoll Associates, New York, NY H. Nils

Mile Square Granite Quarries

Eero Saarinen Wadley & Smythe

Eero Saarinen

Biographical statement American, born Finland. 1910–1961

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

Died 1961

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Eero Saarinen

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Eero Saarinen was involved in 23 exhibitions across 7 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1950s with 7 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1970s,1990s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-06	1938-09	Rockefeller Center	Wheaton College Competition
2	1939-02	1939-03	MoMA	Williamsburg Competition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-01	1940-03	MoMA	Smithsonian Competition
2	1942-09	1942-09	MoMA	Modern Architecture for the Modern School
3	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
4	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
5	1945-02	1945-05	MoMA	Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage
6	1947-03	1947-06	MoMA	Printed Textiles for the Home
7	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
2	1950-11	1951-01	MoMA	Good Design
3	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
4	1955-02	1955-03	MoMA	Good Design: 5th Anniversary
5	1957-02	1957-04	MoMA	Buildings for Business and Government
6	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection
7	1959-02	1959-04	MoMA	Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1961-09	1961-11	MoMA	Eero Saarinen, 1910–1961
2	1964-05		MoMA	Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1979-02	1979-04	MoMA	Transformations in Modern Architecture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
2	2005-12	2006-04	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Rotation 2
3	2009-05	2011-01	MoMA	What was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Lord & Taylor

Singer Sewing Machine Co., New York Lewis & Conger, New York New Design Inc., New York

The House in the Museum Garden

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

A

B

Antonio Bonet

Exhibitions

1940s (3)

1950s (2)

1990s (1)

2000s (3)

Marcel Breuer

Exhibitions

1930s (6)

1940s (9)

1950s (6)

1960s (2)

1970s (4)

1980s (1)

1990s (1)

2000s (9)

2010s (5)

Benjamin Baldwin

Exhibitions

1940s (3)

1950s (2)

C

Arundell Clarke

Exhibitions

1940s (2)

1950s (6)

E

Charles Eames

Exhibitions

1940s (7)

1950s (13)

1960s (2)

1970s (2)

1990s (2)

2000s (6)

2010s (3)

F

Jorge Ferrari Hardoy

Exhibitions

1940s (3)

1950s (2)

G

Harry Goldman

Exhibitions

1940s (1)

H

Eszter Haraszty

Exhibitions

1940s (1)

1950s (1)

2000s (1)

2010s (1)

I

J

K

Juan Kurchan

Exhibitions

1940s (2)

1950s (1)

L

M

William Machado

Exhibitions

1940s (3)

1950s (1)

N

Q

S

Eero Saarinen