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Exhibition History of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
1970s

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

 

Fort Worth Art Center (1954-1971)

Stephen Antonakos
January 13 - February 22, 1970

Harry Geffert: New Light Sculpture
January 20 - February 22, 1970

Gaston Lachaise Sculpture and Drawings
January 27 - February 22, 1970

Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
March 10 - April 12, 1970

Gerhard Marcks, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints
April 21 - May 24, 1970

Texas Fine Arts Association
May 5 - May 31, 1970

33rd Tarrant County Annual
June 9 - July 19, 1970

Edvard Munch Graphics
August 4 - September 13, 1970

Robert Rauschenberg: “Stoned Moon” Lithographs
Graphics from the 35th Venice Biennal Workshop
Recent Acquisitions

September 29 - October 25, 1970

Project South by Southwest I
November 7 - December 6, 1970

Dennis Hopper Photographs
Jerry McMillan: Small Objects
December 17, 1970 - January 17, 1971

Name changed to The Fort Worth Art Museum - Center in 1971

Photography into Sculpture
January 31 - March 7, 1971
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A History of Texas Fashion
Alvis Ballew-Jim McMahon (Master’s Thesis Exhibition)
Selections from the Permanent Collection

March 18 - March 28, 1971

Wojciech Fangor
April 6 - May 9, 1971

Curtis Scott: TCU Master’s
May 18 - May 28, 1971

Milton Resnick: Large Paintings
May 18 - June 13, 1971

Texas Fine Arts Association
June 1 - June 13, 1971

34th Tarrant County Annual
June 22 - July 18, 1971

Objects: USA
July 28 - August 17, 1971

MUSEUM CLOSED
August 18 - September 12, 1971

Selections from the B. Gerald Cantor Collection
Tribal Art of West Africa II

September 15 - October 10, 1971

Project South by Southwest II
October 26 - November 28, 1971

The Kirk Johnson Collection of Animal Paintings by William Kuhnert
December 8, 1971 - January 2, 1972

Contemporary Los Angeles Art in Texas Collections
January 11 - February 6, 1972

John Dowell, Jr.
Jack Boynton
Wayne Thiebaud Graphics

February 16 - March 12, 1972

Edward Hopper Bequest
March 28 - April 23, 1972

Texas Fine Arts Association
April 10 - April 23, 1972

Conchita Berry
April 12 - April 23, 1972

20th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection
Sybil Edwards: 20 Years of Egg Painting

May 2 - May 25, 1972

Thirteen Studies for Balzac-from the Collection of B. Gerald Cantor
May 2 - Indefinite

Permanent Collection
June 7 - June 28, 1972

Claes Oldenburg: Object Into Monument
July 16 - August 20, 1972

Project South by Southwest III
October 18 - November 19, 1972

Diaghilev Stage Designs
December 2, 1972 - January 7, 1973

The Graphic Art of German Expressionism
Ten Toys by Artists
Harold Perisco Paris

December 7, 1972 - January 7, 1973

Joe Goode: Work Until Now
January 17 - February 11, 1973

Reginald Marsh Retrospective
Jim Love: In Pursuit of the Bear

February 21 - April 1, 1973

Betty Voelker: Passageways
John Fleming, Bill Jenkins, Bob Shaw, Avigdor Arikha

April 11 - May 6, 1973

35th Tarrant County Annual Exhibition
May 22 - June 24, 1973

MUSEUM CLOSED FOR RECONSTRUCTION
June 25, 1973 - September 7, 1974

Name changed to The Fort Worth Art Museum in 1974

Twentieth Century Art from Fort Worth/Dallas Collections
September 8, - October 15, 1974

Roy De Forest Retrospective
Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

November 9, 1974 - January 5, 1975

Brice Marden Drawings
Organized by the Bykert Gallery, New York

November 10, 1974 - January 5, 1975

Santa Cruz Series
January 7 - February 27, 1975

Arman: Selected Works
Organized by the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art

January 18 - February 23, 1975

The Prints of Richard Hamilton
Organized by the Rhode Island School of Design

February 20 - March 16, 1975

Southwest/Tarrant County Annual
March 10 - April 20, 1975

Michael Kostiuk
April 30 - June 8, 1975

Robert Israel: Design for Opera
May 11 - June 15, 1975

DFW/SFO/Exchange
July 27 - September 7, 1975

Larry Bell: Recent Work
September 28 - November 9, 1975

Dan Flavin: Installations in Fluorescent Light
November 23, 1975 - January 11, 1976

The Great American Rodeo
January 25 - April 11, 1976

North, East, West, South and Middle
April 18 - June 6, 1976

Southwest/Tarrant County Annual
April 25 - May 30, 1976

The Permanent Collection: A 75th Anniversary Retrospective
June 6 - October 31, 1976

Dan Flavin: Drawings, Diagrams and Prints from 1972-1975
June 13 - July 25, 1976

A Tribute to Alvar Aalto
September 1 - October 17, 1976

Robert Irwin: Continuing Responses
1975 - 1977

A Tribute to Alvar Aalto
Organized by International Contract Furnishings, Inc.

September 1 - October 17, 1976

American Artists: A New Decade
November 14, 1976 - January 2, 1977

The American Abstract Expressionist Collection of the Sarah Campbell
Blaffer Foundation

January 9 - February 20, 1977

A Television Exhibition: Rauschenberg, Tudor, Farber, Lucier
February, 1977

Texas Today: 3 Exhibitions-Installations for Corner Spaces;
Four Texas Photographers; Dick Wray: Selected Work

March 6 - April 10, 1977

The Permanent Collection
April 10 - June 7, 1977

The Southwest/Tarrant County Annual
April 24 - June 5, 1977

Morris Louis: The Veil Cycle
June 19 - July 31, 1977

American 1976
June 19 - August 14, 1977

Fort Worth-Dallas Collectors
August 14 - September 25, 1977

Permanent Collection
August 21 - October 2, 1977

Rafael Ferrer
September 18 - October 30, 1977

Los Angeles in the Seventies
October 9 - November 20, 1977

Permanent Collection
November 27, 1977 - January 22, 1978

The Record as Artwork: From Futurism to Conceptual Art
December 4, 1977 - January 15, 1978

Edward Ruscha
Allen Ruppersberg

December 4, 1977 - January 22, 1978

Permanent Collection
February 5 - March 5, 1978

Frank Stella: Recent Works
March 19 - April 30, 1978

Permanent Collection
May 7 - June 17, 1978

Light on Fort Worth (Elmwood Exhibition)
May 14 - June 11, 1978

The Modern Chair: Its Origins and Evolution
May 14 - June 28, 1978

Permanent Collection: American Art from 1900-1940
June 24 - September 3, 1978

Permanent Collection
July 16 - October 15, 1978

20th Century Prints in the Permanent Collection
September 10 - October 15, 1978

Auction
October 20 - October 22, 1978

Modern Painting and Sculpture from the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
October 29, 1978 - January 21, 1979

The Target Collection of American Photography
Organized by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts

November 3 - December 31, 1978

Wallace Berman Retrospective
Organized by Otis Art Institute

January 10 - February 18, 1979

Focus: Sam Gummelt
February 24 - April 1, 1979

Focus: Jack Caspary
April 3 - May 6, 1979

Focus: Nicolas W. Wood
May 8 - June 10, 1979

Drawings from the Permanent Collection
June-mid-July, 1979

Permanent Collection
Spring and Summer, 1979

Focus: Laurence Scholder
September 5 - October 14, 1979

Pop Art Prints
Mid-July-September 5, 1979

Early Classics from the Permanent Collection
September 8 - October 21, 1979

Permanent Collection
September - December, 1979

Jackie Winsor
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York

September 19 - October 21, 1979

Focus: Laurence Scholder
September 5 - October 14, 1979

Richard Smith: Recent Work 1972-1977
Organized by the MIT Hayden Gallery

November 9, 1979 - January 6, 1980

Focus: Cork Marcheschi
November 17 - December 30, 1979