Browse Exhibitions: 1940s Exhibitions

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    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
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    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Statue of a Striding Noblewoman

Egyptian sculptors carved tomb statues that were intended to provide youthful, idealized depictions of their subjects throughout time.The ga...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: The Islets at Port-Villez (Les Iles à Port-Villez)

    Throughout his sixty-year painting career, Monet captured the shifting light and color of the Seine River, often from a flat-bottomed studio...

     

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    1940s Exhibitions

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    History of Pressed Glass (Mrs. William Greig Walker Collection)
    October 25, 1940 through December 1, 1940
    Art Finds a Way
    November 1, 1940 through January 10, 1941
    Art Finds a Way
    Five Generations of Children's Clothing
    November 9, 1940 through January 12, 1941
    Five Generations of Children
    Nativity in Art
    November 22, 1940 through January 5, 1941
    Art in Industry
    November 29, 1940 through January 12, 1941
    Recent Accessions
    December 5, 1940 through January 12, 1951
    Forever Young: Illustrations for Children's Books
    December 6, 1940 through January 5, 1941
    Pre-Columbian Art of Latin America [travelling show]
    date unknown, 1941
    Pre-Columbian Art of Latin America [travelling show]
    Latin American Costumes Sketches by Reynaldo Luza
    date unknown, 1941 through January 4, 1942
    Oil Paintings, Water Colors & Prints: WPA
    date unknown, 1941
    Latin American Colonial & Folk Art [travelling show]
    date unknown, 1941
    Nineteenth Century Lithographs of Brooklyn and Long Island
    January 9, 1941 through March 2, 1941
    Brooklyn Society of Artists
    January 18, 1941 through February 2, 1941
    Water Colors by Brooklyn Artists
    January 18, 1941 through February 2, 1941
    Paganism and Christianity in Egypt (Coptic Exhibition)
    January 23, 1941 through March 9, 1941
    George B. Brainerd Photographs
    February 6, 1941 through March 3, 1941
    Peruvian Textiles
    February 7, 1941 through March 16, 1941
    Art Teachers Association of the High Schools of New York City
    February 8, 1941 through March 9, 1941
    American Artists in the Museum's Print Collection
    March 7, 1941 through April 20, 1941
    Hats Unlimited
    March 8, 1941 through April 20, 1941
    Hats Unlimited
    Classes of the Institute Art Department
    March 17, 1941 through March 30, 1941
    Classes of the Institute Art Department
    Recent Accessions
    March 17, 1941 through April 27, 1941
    International Watercolor Exhibition, 11th Biennial
    March 28, 1941 through May 11, 1941
    Annual Exhibition of Photographs [51st]
    April 14, 1941 through May 4, 1941
    Contemporary Painting in the United States
    April 19, 1941 through April 27, 1941
    Index of American Design
    April 23, 1941 through May 18, 1941
    Toulouse-Lautrec Lithographs
    April 25, 1941 through June 1, 1941
     
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