Two Houses: New Ways to Build

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Date

Tue Aug 26 1952 until Tue Oct 14 1952

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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July 1952

August 1952

September 1952

October 1952

November 1952

December 1952

Two Houses: New Ways to Build

Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

Recent Acquisitions: Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest

Diogenes with a Camera

French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection

Understanding African Negro Sculpture

Works from the Museum Collection

Recent American Woodcuts and Prints by Marin, Hopper and Weber

Good Design

Les Fauves

Paintings by Cajori, de Kooning, Dodd, Frankenthaler, Freilicher, Hofmann, Ippolito, Kline, Marca-Relli, F. Mitchell; Sculpture by King

Paintings by Beattie, Isquith, Ortman, Stone

Paintings by Beauchamp, Groell, Goldberg, J.Mitchell, J.Sanders, Steubing

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1946-07	1954-09	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2	1952-03	1952-10	Recent Acquisitions: Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest
3	1952-05	1952-09	Diogenes with a Camera
4	1952-06	1952-09	French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection
5	1952-07	1952-10	Understanding African Negro Sculpture
6	1952-08	1952-09	Works from the Museum Collection
7	1952-09	1952-11	Recent American Woodcuts and Prints by Marin, Hopper and Weber
8	1952-09	1952-11	Good Design
9	1952-10	1953-01	Les Fauves

#	Start	End	Title
1	1952-07	1952-08	Paintings by Cajori, de Kooning, Dodd, Frankenthaler, Freilicher, Hofmann, Ippolito, Kline, Marca-Relli, F. Mitchell; Sculpture by King
2	1952-09	1952-09	Paintings by Beattie, Isquith, Ortman, Stone
3	1952-09	1952-10	Paintings by Beauchamp, Groell, Goldberg, J.Mitchell, J.Sanders, Steubing

Artists

There were 2 persons who influenced this exhibition.

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R. Buckminster Fuller

Biographical statement American, 1895–1983

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

Died 1983

Nationality American

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, R. Buckminster Fuller was involved in 24 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 7 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-10	1942-04	MoMA	Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Deployment Unit
2	1943-07	1943-10	MoMA	Airways to Peace
3	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
4	1945-02	1945-05	MoMA	Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1952-08	1952-10	MoMA	Two Houses: New Ways to Build
2	1959-09	1960-03	MoMA	Three Structures by Buckminster Fuller
3	1959-10	1959-11	MoMA	Buckminster Fuller

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-09	1960-12	MoMA	Visionary Architecture
2	1968-11	1969-02	MoMA	The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1974-02	1974-09	MoMA	Architectural Models from the Collection
2	1977-01	1977-03	MoMA	Projects: Buckminster Fuller and John Cage
3	1979-04	1979-05	MoMA	Three Houses

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
2	1995-05	1995-09	MoMA	Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970–1995

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-09	2001-01	MoMA	Architecture Hot and Cold
2	2002-10	2003-01	MoMA	The Changing of the Avant Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings From the Gilman Collection
3	2004-11	2005-03	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Inaugural Installation
4	2006-04	2006-07	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Rotation 3
5	2006-11	2007-03	MoMA	OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren
6	2007-04	2007-06	MoMA	75 Years of Architecture at MoMA
7	2008-07	2008-10	MoMA	Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-10	2011-02	MoMA	Abstract Expressionist New York: Ideas Not Theories: Artists and the Club 1942–1962
2	2012-09	2013-03	MoMA	9+1 Ways of Being Political: 50 Years of Political Stances in Architecture and Urban Design

Frederick Kiesler

Biographical statement American, born Romania. 1890–1965

Born 1890 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1965

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Frederick Kiesler

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Frederick Kiesler was involved in 43 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 12 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	1936-03	1936-04	MoMA	Cubism and Abstract Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
2	1952-04	1952-07	MoMA	15 Americans
3	1952-08	1952-10	MoMA	Two Houses: New Ways to Build
4	1952-12	1953-02	MoMA	De Stijl
5	1953-12	1954-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions, 1946–1953: Department of Architecture and Design

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-09	1960-12	MoMA	Visionary Architecture
2	1963-08	1963-09	MoMA	60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
3	1965-09	1965-12	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest
4	1965-12	1966-03	MoMA	Frederick J. Kiesler
5	1966-04	1966-06	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
6	1966-10	1967-05	MoMA	Drawings from the Museum Collection
7	1967-06	1967-11	MoMA	Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
8	1968-01	1968-03	MoMA	Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967
9	1968-03	1968-06	MoMA	Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage
10	1968-09	1968-11	MoMA	Architecture of Museums
11	1969-05	1969-09	MoMA	Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
12	1969-12	1970-03	MoMA	American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-05	1970-08	MoMA	Preliminary Drawings
2	1970-06	1970-09	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions V
3	1971-03	1971-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: 20th-Century Pioneers
4	1971-05	1971-10	MoMA	A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection
5	1971-07	1971-11	MoMA	Ways of Looking
6	1972-09	1972-10	MoMA	Sculpture from the Collection
7	1974-06	1974-09	MoMA	Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France
8	1978-07	1978-10	MoMA	Artists and Writers
9	1979-03		MoMA	Stage Show
10	1979-03	1979-05	MoMA	The Stage Show
11	1979-05	1979-06	MoMA	Thirty Sculptors' Drawings

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1985-11	1986-04	MoMA	Large Drawings

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
2	1995-06	1995-08	MoMA	Sculpture from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
2	2006-04	2006-07	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Rotation 3
3	2007-04	2007-06	MoMA	75 Years of Architecture at MoMA
4	2009-12	2012-02	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 1

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-10	2011-02	MoMA	Abstract Expressionist New York: Ideas Not Theories: Artists and the Club 1942–1962
2	2010-11	2011-05	MoMA	Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture
3	2011-01	2011-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011
4	2011-10	2012-02	MoMA	Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983
5	2012-03	2013-03	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 2
6	2013-07	2014-01	MoMA	Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City

Two Houses: New Ways to Build

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Tanager Gallery

Artists

F

R. Buckminster Fuller

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (4)

1950s (3)

1960s (2)

1970s (3)

1990s (2)

2000s (7)

2010s (2)

K

Frederick Kiesler

Exhibitions

1930s (2)

1950s (5)

1960s (12)

1970s (11)

1980s (1)

1990s (2)

2000s (4)

2010s (6)

Acknowledgements