Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York Photos

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (11 West 53rd St.) occupies several significant modern buildings and displays artworks starting about 1900, modern decorative arts with architectural elements, plus is noted for its outdoor sculpture garden. Opposite MoMA is The Museum of Arts and Design.

See also: Museums of New York City, Art Museums
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (2007) (11 West 53rd St.).
Architect: Yoshio Taniguchi.

Museum of Modern Art (1939) first building. Style: International Style. Architect: Philip Goodwin & Edward Durell Stone.

View up Atrium of Museum of Modern Art.

Atrium of Museum of Modern Art.

Museum of Modern Art patrons walk across rainbow-colored super graphic.

Overview of sculpture garden (1964) of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Architect: Philip Johnson.

Sculpture garden of Museum of Modern Art with MoMA buildings.

Boy Leading a Horse (1905-6) painting by Pablo Picasso at MoMA.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) painting by Pablo Picasso at MoMA.

Detail of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) painting by Pablo Picasso at MoMA.

Violin & Grapes (1912) painting in cubist style by Pablo Picasso at MoMA.

Three Musicians (1921) painting in cubist style by Pablo Picasso at MoMA.

Three Women at the Spring (1921) painting in cubist style by Pablo Picasso at MoMA.

Girl before a Mirror (1932) painting by Pablo Picasso at MoMA.

Woman Dressing Her Hair (1940) painting by Pablo Picasso at MoMA.

Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889) painting by Vincent van Gogh at MoMA.

The Olive Trees (1889) painting by Vincent van Gogh at MoMA.

The Starry Night (1889) painting by Vincent van Gogh at MoMA.

The Bather (c1885) painting by Paul Cézanne at MoMA.

The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) painting by Henri Rousseau at MoMA.

I & the Village (1911) painting by Marc Chagall at MoMA.

Street, Dresden (1907) painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at MoMA.

Street, Berlin (1913) painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at MoMA.

The World Cow (1913) painting by Franz Marc at MoMA.

Propellers (1918) painting by Fernand Léger at MoMA.

Panel for Edwin R. Campbell apartment (1 of 4) (1914) painting by Vasily Kandinsky at MoMA.

Panel for Edwin R. Campbell apartment (1 of 4) (1914) painting by Vasily Kandinsky at MoMA.

Dance (I) (1909) painting by Henri Matisse at MoMA.

Series of bronze busts each called Jeannette (1910-16) by Henri Matisse at MoMA.

The Menaced Assassin (1927) painting by René Magritte at MoMA.

Hirondelle Amour (1934) painting by Joan Miró at MoMA.

Still Life with Old Shoe (1937) painting by Joan Miró at MoMA.

Sculptures by Constantin Brancusi - The Cock (1924), Maiastra (1910-2), Bird in Space (1928) at MoMA.

Colored glass window (1912) from Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, IL by Frank Lloyd Wright at MoMA.

Cast iron spandrel (1898) from Gage Building, Chicago, IL by Louis Sullivan at MoMA.

Wrought iron grill (1906) from Casa Milá, Barcelona, Spain by Antoni Gaudí at MoMA.

Cast iron railing (1899) by Otto Wagner of Austria at MoMA.

Display of architectural furniture at Museum of Modern Art.

Side chair (1897) by Charles Rennie Mackintosh of Scotland at MoMA.

Highback chair (1903-4) by Josef Hoffmann made by Wiener Werkstätte, Austria at MoMA.

Sitzmaschine chair (1905) by Josef Hoffmann made by J&J Kohn, Austria at MoMA.

Side view of bentwood reclining Sitzmaschine chair (1905) by Josef Hoffmann at MoMA.

Barcelona chair (1929) by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe made by Knoll International, New York at MoMA.

Hanging Lotus Lamp (1905) by Louis Comfort Tiffany at MoMA.

Nickel-plated electric kettle (1909) by Peter Behrens made by AEG of Germany at MoMA.

Silver jewel box (c1900) in Art Nouveau style by Archibald Knox of Britain at MoMA.

Museum of Arts & Design, temporarily opposite MoMA.


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