Berenice Abbott Catalogue
Berenice Abbott
Group Exhibitions
1928
"Premier Salon Independent de la Photographie," Independent Salon of Photography. Paris, France. May 24-June 7, 1928. 
 
1930
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. 
 
Kirstein, Lincoln, curator. Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 1930. 
 
1932
Kirstein, Lincoln and Julien Levy, curator. Museum of the City of New York. New York, New York. January 1932. 
 
Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, New York. 
 
Brooklyn Museum. New York, New York. 
 
"Photographs of New York by New York Photographers," Julien Levy Gallery. New York, New York. May 1932. 
 
1939
"Art in Our Time," Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. 
 
1963
"Six photographers 1963: An exhibition of contemporary photography," College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbanna, Illinois. March 3-April 7, 1963. 
 
1974
"Berenice Abbott, Helen Frankenthaler, Tatyana Grosman, Louise Nevelson," Smith College Museum of Art. Northampton, Massachusetts. January 17-February 24, 1974. 
 
1979-1980
"City folk: New York genre, 1930-1949," Columbia Museums of Art and Science. Columbia, South Carolina. November 11, 1979-January 6, 1980. 
Gibbes Art Gallery. Charleston, South Carolina. January 20-March 2, 1980.
Greenville County Museum of Art. Greenville, South Carolina. April 4-May 25, 1980. 
 
1982-1983
"Atelier Man Ray: Berenice Abbott, Jacques-Andre Boiffard, Bill Brandt, Lee Miller," Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, France. December 2, 1982-January 28, 1983. 
 
1988
"Vintage photographs by women of the 20's and 30's," Edwynn Houk Gallery. Chicago, Illinois. March 11-April 30, 1988. 
 
1989
"Recollections: nine women photographers," Freedman Gallery, Albright College. Reading, Pennsylvania. January 31-March 5, 1989. 
 
1992
"An American story: photography from the permanent collection," Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 25-November 15, 1992. 
Traveled to three other venues. 
 
1994
"Fables, fantasies and everyday things: children's books by artists," Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, New York. October 14-December 30, 1994. 
 
"After art: rethinking 150 years of photography: selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington. Seattle, Washington. 
 
1997
"Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century: selections from the Helen Kornblum collection," Saint Louis Art Museum. St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
"A History of Women Photographers," Akron Art Museum. Akron, Ohio. September 6-November 2, 1997. 
The New York Public Library. New York, New York. October 19, 1996-January 4, 1997.
National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, D.C. February 13-May 11, 1997.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, California. June 7-August 10, 1997. 
 
1997-1998
"Images from the Machine Age: Selections from the Daniel Cowin collection," International Center of Photography. New York, New York. December 5, 1997-February 22, 1998. 
 
"The Big City: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs," Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, Massachusetts. July 24, 1997-January 5, 1998. 
 
1999
"Chiaroscuro: highlights and shades of six photographers," The Art Gallery, University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland. February 4-April 17, 1999. 
 
2002-2003
"Idea Photographic: After Modernism," Museum of Fine Arts. Santa Fe, New Mexico. October 11, 2002-January 19, 2003. 
 
2003-2004
"Contemporary Photography from The Manfred Heiting Collection," Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas. May 17, 2003-January 11, 2004. 
 
2004
"Duality/Dialectic: New Perspectives on the DAC Collection," Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Middletown, Connecticut. March 30-May 23, 2004. 
 
2005
"Taking Place: photographs from the Prentice & Paul Sack collection," The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California. June 2-September 6, 2005. 
 
2006
"7 Documentarians," David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. April 12-May 10, 2006. 
 
"The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935," Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma, Washington. February 4-May 21, 2006. 
 
2008
"From any angle: photographs from the collection of Doris Bry," Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, Connecticut. May 23-September 7, 2008. 
 
2009
"Photography on Display: Modern Treasures," The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. May 9-September 13, 2009. 
 
2009-2010
Meister, Sarah, curator.  "Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art," Organised by the Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. 
La Casa Encendida. Madrid, Spain. March 26-June 14, 2009.
Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Rovereto, Italy, July 11-October 11, 2009.
Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, Ireland. November 25, 2009-February 14, 2010. 
 
2010
"Picturing Modernity," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California. July 17-October 3, 2010. 
 
"Wanderlust: Travel and American Photography," Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, Oklahoma. June 5-September 19, 2010. 
 
"Berenice Abbott and Chenoweth Hall," Courthouse Gallery Fine Art. Ellsworth, Maine. June 24-July 25, 2010. 
 
2010-2011
"American Modern: documentary photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White," Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth, Texas. October 1, 2010-October 2, 2011. 
The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. February 5-May 15, 2011.
Colby College Museum of Art. Waterville, Maine. July 9-October 2, 2011. 
 
"Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography," The Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. May 7, 2010-March 21, 2011. 
 
Moorefield, Amy and Christine Carr, curator.  "The Fleeting Glimpse: selections in modern and contemporary photography from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. Roanoke, Virginia. September 16-December 4, 2010. 
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, Virginia. January 15-April 3, 2011. 
 
2010-2012
"Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C. October 30, 2010-February 13, 2011. 
Brooklyn Museum, Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing. Brooklyn, New York. November 18, 2011-February 12, 2012.
Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma, Washington. March 17-June 10, 2012. 
 
2011
Simak, Fritz, curator.  "Magie des Objekts (Magic of the Object: Three Centuries of Photography)," Leopold Museum. Vienna, Austria. June 10-October 3, 2011. 
 
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