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Also Known As MoMA
Date 1929 - present
Areas Of Involvement modern art
Related People Alfred H. Barr, Jr. • Beaumont Newhall • Yoshio Taniguchi • John Szarkowski • John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in the Museum of Modern Art
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth
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I and the Village
viewer observing Claude Monet's Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond
Central New York City
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Watch Yoshio Taniguchi explaining the architectural design of the Museum of Modern Art
Learn about Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and the creation of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
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