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MODERN ART
LILA ACHESON WALLACE WING

... American design objects expanded the department's already significant holdings to include masterworks by Donald Deskey, Eliel Saarinen, Paul Frankl, and Isamu Noguchi. The 110,000-square-foot Lila Acheson Wallace Wing inaugurated in 1987 provides ...

2005-09-22

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Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, 1900 A.D.–present | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

... to vote in 1918, Swedish women in 1921. • 1919 The Railway Station in Helsinki, designed by architect Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950), is completed. The National Romantic conception of Saarinen's 1904 winning competition entry had been roundly ...

Prototype Tea Service, ca. 1933–35

Electroplated nickel silver, brass, and Bakelite Tea Urn, 1a-c: H. 14-1/2, D. 7-3/4 in. (36.8 x 19.7 cm) Tray, 2: Diam. 17-1/2 in. (44.5 cm) Creamer, 3: H. 3, W. 6, D. 3-7/8 in. (7.6 x 15.2 x 9.8 cm) Sugar Bowl, 4a,b: H. 6-3/4, W. 6, D. 3-7/8 in. (17.1 x 15.2 x 9.8 cm) Large Tray, 5: Diam. 20-1/4 in. (51.4 cm)

Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Saarinen Swanson and John C. Waddell Gifts, and Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, by exchange, 1999 (1999.27.1a-c-5)

[underside of urn stamped]: WILCOX S.P.CO. / E P N S / INTERNATIONAL S CO / N5875 / IS; [underside of small tray stamped]: WILCOX S.P.CO. / E P N ...

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Special Exhibitions

... by such leading designers as Norman Bel Geddes, Donald Deskey, Paul Frankl, Raymond Loewy, Isamu Noguchi, Eliel Saarinen, Walter Dorwin Teague, Walter von Nessen, and Russel Wright. Installed chronologically and thematically, "American Modern" ...

American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age

May 16, 2000–February 04, 2001

An exploration of 20th-century design via the objects created by the first generation of American industrial designers.

The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern Art, 1st floor

... Geddes, Donald Deskey, Henry Dreyfuss, Paul Frankl, Raymond Loewy, Eliel Saarinen, Walter Dorwin Teague, Walter von Nessen, Russel Wright, and others.

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