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

Summary information

Date

Tue Oct 11 1949 until Tue Nov 15 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.

September 1949

October 1949

November 1949

December 1949

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

Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

The House in the Museum Garden

Anni Albers Textiles

Modern Art in Your Life

New Posters from 16 Countries

Recent Acquisitions

Polio Poster Competition

Design Show: Christmas 1949

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1946-07	1954-09	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2	1949-04	1949-10	The House in the Museum Garden
3	1949-09	1949-11	Anni Albers Textiles
4	1949-10	1949-12	Modern Art in Your Life
5	1949-10	1949-11	New Posters from 16 Countries
6	1949-10	1950-01	Recent Acquisitions
7	1949-10	1949-11	Polio Poster Competition
8	1949-11	1950-01	Design Show: Christmas 1949

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.

Ida Adelman

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Ida Adelman 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	1938-02	1938-03	Rockefeller Center	Subway Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-04	1940-05	MoMA	PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter
2	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen
3	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Polio Poster Competition

Margaret Bourke-White Esther Bubley

Margaret Bourke-White

Biographical statement American, 1904–1971

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

Died 1971

Nationality American

Gender Female

External information resources for Margaret Bourke-White

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Margaret Bourke-White was involved in 28 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1950s,1970s with 5 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1937-03	1937-04	MoMA	Photography 1839–1937
2	1938-05	1938-07	MoMA	Three Centuries of American Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1943-08	1943-09	MoMA	Action Photography
2	1949-02	1949-05	MoMA	The Exact Instant
3	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen
4	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Polio Poster Competition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1951-11	1951-12	MoMA	Memorable Life Photographs
2	1952-08	1952-08	MoMA	Then and Now
3	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man
4	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
5	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center
2	1965-03	1965-05	MoMA	The Photo Essay
3	1967-10		MoMA	Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
2	1971-09	1971-11	MoMA	Photographs of Women
3	1974-09	1974-12	MoMA	Public Landscapes
4	1979-11	1980-01	MoMA	Art of the Twenties
5	1979-12		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-02	1990-05	MoMA	Photography Until Now
2	1994-01	1994-04	MoMA	Gesture and Pose: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the Collection
3	1997-02	1997-10	MoMA	American Photography 1890–1965 from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	The Rhetoric of Persuasion
2	2002-02	2002-05	MoMA	Life of the City
3	2006-06	2006-09	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Herzog and De Meuron, Perception Restrained

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-05	2011-04	MoMA	Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Part 2)
2	2013-08	2014-01	MoMA	American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe

Esther Bubley

Biographical statement American, 1921–1998

Born 1921 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1998

Nationality American

Gender

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Esther Bubley 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 2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1948-04	1948-07	MoMA	In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography
2	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen
3	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Polio Poster Competition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1952-05	1952-09	MoMA	Diogenes with a Camera
2	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-05	2011-04	MoMA	Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Part 2)

Tana Hoban

Biographical statement

Born 1917 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 2006

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for Tana Hoban

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Tana Hoban was involved in 6 exhibitions across 2 decades.

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

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1949-03	1949-04	MoMA	The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club
2	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen
3	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Polio Poster Competition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-05	1950-07	MoMA	Color Photography
2	1951-11	1952-01	MoMA	Christmas Photographs
3	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man

Dorothea Lange Helen Levitt

Dorothea Lange

Biographical statement American, 1895–1965

Born 1895 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1965

Nationality American

Gender Female

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Dorothea Lange was involved in 46 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 9 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-05	1938-07	MoMA	Three Centuries of American Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-12	1941-01	MoMA	Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics
2	1942-01	1942-02	MoMA	New Acquisitions: Photographs
3	1942-05	1942-10	MoMA	Road to Victory
4	1943-11	1943-12	MoMA	Portraits
5	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Photography
6	1945-06	1946-06	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Photographs
7	1948-07	1948-09	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
8	1949-02	1949-05	MoMA	The Exact Instant
9	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1952-08	1952-08	MoMA	Then and Now
2	1952-11	1953-03	MoMA	Diogenes with a Camera II
3	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man
4	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
5	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1962-04	1962-05	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
2	1962-10	1962-11	MoMA	The Bitter Years: 1935–1941
3	1964-05	1964-08	MoMA	The Photographer's Eye
4	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center
5	1965-03	1965-05	MoMA	The Photo Essay
6	1966-01	1966-04	MoMA	Dorothea Lange
7	1967-10		MoMA	Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
2	1971-09	1971-11	MoMA	Photographs of Women
3	1974-09	1974-12	MoMA	Public Landscapes
4	1979-12		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection
2	1981-07	1981-10	MoMA	American Landscapes
3	1985-12	1986-03	MoMA	Variants

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-02	1990-05	MoMA	Photography Until Now
2	1991-01	1991-03	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Chuck Close, Head-On/The Modern Portrait
3	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
4	1994-01	1994-04	MoMA	Gesture and Pose: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the Collection
5	1997-02	1997-10	MoMA	American Photography 1890–1965 from the Collection
6	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Posed to unposed: Encounters with the Camera

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	The Rhetoric of Persuasion
2	2004-11	2005-06	MoMA	Photography: Inaugural Installation
3	2006-03	2006-11	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 3
4	2006-12	2007-07	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 4
5	2007-08	2008-03	MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Collection Galleries: Rotation 5
6	2009-03	2009-06	MoMA	Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
7	2009-08	2010-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 6

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-05	2011-04	MoMA	Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Part 2)
2	2011-05	2012-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation
3	2012-04		MoMA	The Shaping of New Visions: Photograph, Film, Photobook
4	2013-08	2014-01	MoMA	American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe

Helen Levitt

Biographical statement American, 1913–2009

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

Died 2009

Nationality American

Gender Female

External information resources for Helen Levitt

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Helen Levitt was involved in 48 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 11 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s,2010s with 3 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-12	1941-01	MoMA	Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics
2	1941-12	1942-01	MoMA	American Photographs at $10
3	1943-03	1943-04	MoMA	Helen Levitt: Photographs of Children
4	1943-08	1943-09	MoMA	Action Photography
5	1943-11	1943-12	MoMA	Portraits
6	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Photography
7	1945-06	1946-06	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Photographs
8	1948-04	1948-07	MoMA	In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography
9	1948-07	1948-09	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
10	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen
11	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Polio Poster Competition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1951-11	1952-01	MoMA	Christmas Photographs
2	1952-08	1952-08	MoMA	Then and Now
3	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man
4	1957-11	1958-04	MoMA	70 Photographers Look at New York
5	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
6	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-11	1962-03	MoMA	Towards the "New" Museum of Modern Art: A Bid for Space, Part II
2	1962-04	1962-05	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
3	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center
4	1966-12		MoMA	Photographs for Collectors
5	1967-10		MoMA	Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
6	1968-02	1968-03	MoMA	Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-09	1971-11	MoMA	Photographs of Women
2	1974-09	1974-10	MoMA	Projects: Helen Levitt in Color
3	1978-02	1978-04	MoMA	New Standpoints: Photography, 1940–1955
4	1978-07	1978-10	MoMA	Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960
5	1979-12		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection
2	1986-04	1986-06	MoMA	Contemporary Photography Reinstallation
3	1986-06		MoMA	Reinstallation of Contemporary Gallery

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-02	1990-05	MoMA	Photography Until Now
2	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
3	1991-04	1991-07	MoMA	Mean Streets: American Photographs from the Collection, 1940s–1980s
4	1994-01	1994-04	MoMA	Gesture and Pose: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the Collection
5	1994-04	1994-07	MoMA	American Surrealist Photography from the Collection
6	1997-02	1997-10	MoMA	American Photography 1890–1965 from the Collection
7	1999-09	1999-10	MoMA PS1	The Promise of Photograhy: Selections from the DG Bank Collection
8	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Posed to unposed: Encounters with the Camera

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-09	MoMA	The Raw and the Cooked
2	2002-02	2002-05	MoMA	Life of the City
3	2004-11	2005-06	MoMA	Photography: Inaugural Installation
4	2006-03	2006-11	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 3
5	2006-12	2007-07	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 4
6	2008-10	2009-07	MoMA	The Printed Picture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-05	2011-04	MoMA	Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Part 2)
2	2011-05	2012-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation
3	2012-04		MoMA	The Shaping of New Visions: Photograph, Film, Photobook

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

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

A

Ida Adelman

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (3)

B

Margaret Bourke-White

Exhibitions

1930s (2)

1940s (4)

1950s (5)

1960s (3)

1970s (5)

1980s (1)

1990s (3)

2000s (3)

2010s (2)

Esther Bubley

Exhibitions

1940s (3)

1950s (2)

2010s (1)

H

Tana Hoban

Exhibitions

1940s (3)

1950s (3)

L

Dorothea Lange

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (9)

1950s (5)

1960s (7)

1970s (4)

1980s (3)

1990s (6)

2000s (7)

2010s (4)

Helen Levitt

Exhibitions

1940s (11)

1950s (6)

1960s (6)

1970s (5)

1980s (3)

1990s (8)

2000s (6)

2010s (3)

Acknowledgements