Homage to Ben Shahn

Summary information

Date

Wed Apr 02 1969 until Mon May 12 1969

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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February 1969

March 1969

April 1969

May 1969

June 1969

Homage to Ben Shahn

Wall Hangings

Function Without Form: Two Models for an Undesignable City

Willem de Kooning

August Sander (1876–1964)

Giacomo Manzu: Studies for the Portal of Death

Kandinsky Watercolors

Painting for City Walls

Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Tamarind: Homage to Lithography

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1969-02	1969-05	Wall Hangings
2	1969-03	1969-04	Function Without Form: Two Models for an Undesignable City
3	1969-03	1969-04	Willem de Kooning
4	1969-03	1969-07	August Sander (1876–1964)
5	1969-03	1969-05	Giacomo Manzu: Studies for the Portal of Death
6	1969-04	1969-05	Kandinsky Watercolors
7	1969-04	1969-07	Painting for City Walls
8	1969-04	1969-11	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
9	1969-04	1969-09	Tamarind: Homage to Lithography

Artists

There were 1 persons who influenced this exhibition.

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Ben Shahn

Biographical statement American, born Lithuania. 1898–1969

Born 1898 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1969

Nationality American

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Ben Shahn was involved in 109 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 24 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 4 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1930-04	1930-04	Crown Building	46 Painters and Sculptors under 35 Years of Age
2	1932-05	1932-05	MoMA	Murals by American Painters and Photographers
3	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
4	1936-01	1936-02	MoMA	New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
5	1938-05	1938-07	MoMA	Three Centuries of American Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-04	1940-05	MoMA	PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter
2	1940-10	1941-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
3	1941-06	1941-06	MoMA	A History of the Modern Poster
4	1942-01	1942-03	MoMA	The Artists' New York
5	1942-12	1943-01	MoMA	Twentieth Century Portraits
6	1943-02	1943-03	MoMA	Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists
7	1944-02	1944-05	MoMA	Modern Drawings
8	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Posters
9	1945-02	1945-03	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
10	1945-03	1945-03	MoMA	What is Modern Painting?
11	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
12	1946-07	1946-09	MoMA	Paintings from New York Private Collections
13	1946-09	1946-11	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture
14	1947-04	1947-05	MoMA	Large-Scale Modern Paintings
15	1947-09	1948-01	MoMA	Ben Shahn
16	1948-06	1948-09	MoMA	Portraits in Prints
17	1948-07	1948-09	MoMA	New York Private Collections
18	1948-12	1949-03	MoMA	American Paintings from the Museum Collection
19	1949-03	1949-04	MoMA	The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club
20	1949-05	1949-07	MoMA	Master Prints from the Museum Collection
21	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life
22	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	New Posters from 16 Countries
23	1949-10	1950-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
24	1949-10	1949-11	MoMA	Polio Poster Competition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-01	1950-05	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1950-03	1950-05	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
3	1950-08	1950-10	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
4	1952-03	1952-05	MoMA	Posters by Painters and Sculptors
5	1952-03	1952-10	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest
6	1952-05	1952-06	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
7	1952-08	1952-08	MoMA	Then and Now
8	1952-12		MoMA	Gallery Expansion and New Acquisitions
9	1953-06	1953-10	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
10	1954-02	1954-04	MoMA	Four American Graphic Designers
11	1954-09	1954-11	MoMA	American Prints of the 20th Century
12	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
13	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man
14	1955-05	1955-09	MoMA	Paintings from Private Collections
15	1955-10	1955-10	MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
16	1957-01	1957-02	MoMA	Drawings Recently Acquired for the Museum Collection
17	1957-11	1958-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
18	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
19	1959-04	1959-05	MoMA	American Acquisitions: Recent Additions of Prints to the Museum Collection
20	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
21	1959-12	1960-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-01	1960-03	MoMA	Art Lending Service Retrospective
2	1960-05	1960-09	MoMA	Portraits from the Museum Collection
3	1960-10	1961-01	MoMA	100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
4	1960-12	1961-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
5	1961-02	1961-03	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection
6	1961-02		MoMA	[Penthouse Exhibition]
7	1961-04	1961-08	MoMA	America Seen: Between The Wars
8	1962-04	1962-08	MoMA	Fifty Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
9	1962-10	1962-11	MoMA	The Bitter Years: 1935–1941
10	1962-11	1963-01	MoMA	Lettering by Hand
11	1962-11	1963-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
12	1963-02		MoMA	Towards the "New" Museum of Modern Art: A Bid for Space IV
13	1964-05	1965-02	MoMA	From the Museum Collections: Family Portraits
14	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center
15	1964-05	1965-03	MoMA	Prints by Seventeen Artists
16	1964-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
17	1964-09	1964-10	MoMA	Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers
18	1966-03	1966-05	MoMA	Greetings!
19	1966-12	1967-03	MoMA	The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection
20	1968-01	1968-03	MoMA	Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967
21	1969-04	1969-05	MoMA	Homage to Ben Shahn
22	1969-12	1970-03	MoMA	American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
2	1971-11	1971-11	MoMA	American Prints from the International Program
3	1973-11	1974-01	MoMA	Painters for the Theatre: An Invitation to the Theatre Arts Collection
4	1973-12	1974-02	MoMA	Portraits
5	1974-12	1975-03	MoMA	American Prints: 1913–1963
6	1976-08	1976-11	MoMA	Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
7	1976-11	1977-02	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976
8	1977-01	1977-03	MoMA	Posters by Painters
9	1977-06	1977-07	MoMA	Extraordinary Men
10	1978-07	1978-10	MoMA	Artists and Writers
11	1979-08	1979-11	MoMA	Gifts of Drawing

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-11	1981-01	MoMA	A Penthouse Aviary
2	1981-03	1981-06	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Drawings
3	1985-12	1986-05	MoMA	American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
4	1988-01	1988-04	MoMA	Committed to Print
5	1988-06	1988-09	MoMA	The Modern Poster
6	1989-07	1989-11	MoMA	Painters for the Theater

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-11	1991-03	MoMA	Drawn in America, 1898–1945
2	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
3	1992-01	1992-04	MoMA	The William S. Paley Collection
4	1993-03	1993-07	MoMA	Reading Prints
5	1993-07	1993-09	MoMA	Pastimes in Prints
6	1994-10	1995-01	MoMA	A Century of Artists Books
7	1996-05	1996-09	MoMA	From the Collection: A Century of American Drawings
8	1997-09	1998-02	MoMA	From Henri Toulouse Lautrec to Andy Warhol: Exploring Techniques
9	1999-01	1999-05	MoMA	Sight Gags: Caricature, Grotesque, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-08	MoMA	Walker Evans and Company
2	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	The Rhetoric of Persuasion
3	2008-07	2008-11	MoMA	Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities
4	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009
5	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Public Spaces Changes 2009
6	2009-03	2009-09	MoMA	Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
7	2009-08	2010-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 6

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2011-05	2012-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation
2	2011-10	2012-02	MoMA	Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983
3	2012-07	2012-11	MoMA	Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000
4	2013-08	2014-01	MoMA	American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe

Homage to Ben Shahn

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

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Ben Shahn

Exhibitions

1930s (5)

1940s (24)

1950s (21)

1960s (22)

1970s (11)

1980s (6)

1990s (9)

2000s (7)

2010s (4)

Acknowledgements