Department of Circulating Exhibitions records, 1931-1990.

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Department of Circulating Exhibitions records, 1931-1990.

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Collection includes correspondence, research notes, published materials, lists, large-format scrapbook albums, photograph albums, photographs, photographic panels, record album, display book, and ephemera pertaining to departmental administration and the organization and circulation of exhibitions. These papers reveal the Museum's role as a promulgator of modern art in this country, both through its innovative program of circulating exhibitions to other institutions, as well as its role in educating several generations of art students, as well as the general public, through its collaborations with the Museum's Educational Program. They also reflect the Museum's support of U.S. interests abroad during and immediately following World War II. These papers are also an important source of general art historical information. For instance, the pioneering Museum of Modern Art exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art, which was held at the Museum in Spring 1936, was circulated nationally in 1936-37; the files contain, for example, autographed letters to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. from Alexander Calder, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Jacques Lipchitz and Piet Mondrian, as well as other artists whose work was included in the exhibition.

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Dept. of Circulating Exhibitions.

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In 1931 the Museum organized its first traveling exhibition. The Department of Circulating Exhibitions was established in 1933. During WW2 the exhibitions were concerned with subjects related to the war. During the 1940s the Educational Program was temporarily combined with the Department and focused on topics related to education and to WW2. In 1952 the International Circulating Exhibition Program was established, expanding the scope of the Museum's traveling exhibitions to include Europe and L...

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Exhibition Program.

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Museum of modern art New York, N.Y.

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Died 1989. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Titus, Roy V. : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83119924 Art museum; New York, N.Y. From the description of Museum of Modern Art first loan exhibition : November 8th to December 7, 1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557713 d. 2001. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Matisse, Maria-Gaetana : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unk...