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Exhibition History of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
1950s

Exhibitions are listed in reverse chronological order, by date of exhibition.

 

Fort Worth Art Center (1954-1971)

Painting and Bronzes by Frederic Remington
January 7 - February 27, 1956

Art in Antiquity
Contemporary Italian Painting
Work by Lionel Feininger in the Fort Worth Area

March 6 - April 1, 1956

Drawings by Eugen Weisz
19th Annual Local Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture

April 3 - May 6, 1956

Montici Stone Intarsias
Art Work from the Elementary Schools
Five Women Painters

May 7 - May 30, 1956

Group Painting Exhibition by Fort Worth Artists
June 1 - June 3, 1956

Contemporary Japanese Folk Art
June 4 - July 1, 1956

Currier and Ives-Prints of 19th Century America
June 11 - July 1, 1956

Work by Summer Art Classes
July 1, 1956

Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Frost
Selections from the Permanent Collection

July 2 - August 4, 1956

The Paintings of Nicolas de Stael
Selections from the Permanent Collection

August 6 - September 9, 1956

Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects
August 13 - September 9, 1956
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Paintings by John Guerin and Sculpture by Charles Umlauf
September 10 - October 14, 1956

Political Cartoons of Presidential Elections from Washington to Eisenhower
Animals in Antiquity
October 1 - November 4, 1956

Paintings by George Grammer
October 15 - November 18, 1956

Watercolors by Baron von Maydell
November 5 - December 2, 1956

Fourteenth National Exhibition of Prints from the Library of Congress
November 19 - December 2, 1956

Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Artists of Tarrant County
December 3 - December 31, 1956

Horse and Rider
January 7 - March 3, 1957

Student Exhibition
February 3 - February 10, 1957

Jewelry from the Ancient World
Framing-Right and Wrong

March 4 - March 31, 1957

National Award Winning Advertisements
March 25 - April 5, 1957

Sculptors of Texas
Paintings by Claude Vernard

April 1 - May 1, 1957

D.D. Feldman Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Texas Art
April 8 - April 29, 1957

Contemporary Handweavers of Texas
May 3 - May 6, 1957

Paintings by Robert Henri
May 3 - May 26, 1957

Art Work from the Elementary Schools
May 6 - May 12, 1957

The Architecture of Louis Sullivan
May 13 - June 13, 1957

Works by Students of the Art School
May 26 - June 2, 1957

The Symbol of the Rose
June 14 - June 30, 1957

Working Models of the Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
June 17 - July 14, 1957

International Color Woodcuts
Paintings by Raymond Toloczko
July 1 - August 4, 1957

Designs for the Contemporary French Opera, Theater and Ballet
July 1 - September 8, 1957

Italian Arts and Crafts
August 5 - September 8, 1957

Selections from the Permanent Collection
September 1 - September 8, 1957

Contemporary British Art
Drawings by Selma Waldman

September 9 - October 6, 1957

90th Annual American Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibition
September 9 - September 29, 1957

Contemporary Paintings for Collectors Great Ideas of Western Man
October 7 - November 3, 1957

The Sculpture of Charles Williams
The Camera as a Third Eye

November 4 - December 1, 1957

Christmas Decorations Exhibition
November 22 - November 24, 1957

21st Annual Exhibition for Artists and Sculptors of Tarrant County
December 2 - December 29, 1957

International Toys for Christmas
December 14 - December 29, 1957

The Iron Horse in Art
January 6 - March 2, 1958

Student Exhibition
February 2 - February 9, 1958

Recent Work of Herbert Bayer
The Gods of Ancient Egypt

March 3 - April 6, 1958

Textiles of the Italian Renaissance
March 21 - April 6, 1958

Convair Painting Exhibition
April 7 - April 13, 1958

19th Century Paintings of the Southwest
April 13 - May 4, 1958

Paintings from Pan America
April 14 - April 20, 1958

Art Work from the Elementary Schools
May 5 - May 11, 1958

The Permanent Collection
May 12 - June 1, 1958

Works by Students of the Art School
May 18 - May 25, 1958

Texas Fine Arts Association Regional Exhibition
June 2 - June 11, 1958

Nature in Abstraction
June 2 - June 29, 1958

Prints of Jose Guadalupe Posada
June 30 - August 8, 1958

Watercolors from the McNay Art Institute
July 1 - August 8, 1958

Small Paintings by Americans, 1850-1950
August 9 - August 31, 1958

One Hundred Years of American Architecture
Embroidered Banners

September 2 - September 21, 1958

British Children’s Art Exhibition
Paintings and Drawings by John Chumley

September 2 - September 28, 1958

Paintings by N.C. Wyeth
September 29 - October 26, 1958

Selections from the Hoblitzelle Silver Collection
October 10, 1958

The Art Collection of the O.K. Shannons
October 27 - November 9, 1958

Paintings by David Brownlow
October 27 - December 2, 1958

Great Britain-A Photographic Exhibition
November 10 - November 28, 1958

The 1958 Christmas Idea Show-Christmas Yesterday and Today
December 4 - December 7, 1958

22nd Annual Exhibition for Artists of Tarrant County
December 8, 1958 - January 4, 1959

22nd Annual Exhibition for Artists of Tarrant County
December 8, 1958 - January 4, 1959

Art in Film
January 5 - February 1, 1959

Fort Worth-Where the West Begins: A Photographic Study
January 20 - February 8, 1959

The C.M. Carter Antique Samovar Collection
Color Woodcuts by Jozsef Domjan

February 2 - February 22, 1959

Members’ Choice
February 23 - March 22, 1959

Paintings by Dorothea La Selle
Contemporary Japanese Color Woodblock Prints

March 22 - April 11, 1959

Junior and Senior High School Art Exhibition
Paintings and Costumes of Pan American Countries

April 12 - April 19, 1959

Paintings by Wilhelm Kuhnert
The African Scene-Photographs by Weldon King

April 20 - May 17, 1959

Ghosts Along the Mississippi
May 4 - May 31, 1959

Elementary Schools Art Exhibition
May 18 - May 24, 1959

Work by Students of the Art School
May 24 - May 31, 1959

Texas Watercolor Society Exhibition
May 25 - June 21, 1959

Texas Fine Arts Regional Exhibition
June 1 - June 7, 1959

Contemporary Mexican Painting
June 1 - June 28, 1959

Five Masterpieces from the Kimbell Collection
June 29 - July 26, 1959

The Permanent Collection
June 29 - September 6, 1959

Contemporary French Tapestries
July 13 - August 16, 1959

Prints and Printmaking
August 1 - August 31, 1959

The American City in the 19th Century
August 3 - September 6, 1959

Chinese Ivories
Prints by Hamaguchi, Minami and Toledo

September 8 - October 4, 1959

The Sculpture Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Weiner
October 5 - October 25, 1959

Seventeenth National Print Exhibition
October 5 - November 1, 1959

Dallas Collects
Pottery by Marguerite Wildenhain

November 3 - December 1, 1959

1959 Christmas Ideas Show
December 3 - December 6, 1959

Members’ Choice
Art Books Fair

December 10, 1959 - January 3, 1960