Exhibition Title

Useful Objects in Wartime

Subject

exhibition (Q464980)

Description

Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: Baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free-wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case and many other useful objects for the civilian, particularly in non-priority glass, comprise part of the exhibition of Useful Objects in Wartime which opens at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, Wednesday, December 2. The rest of the exhibition is devoted to needs of Army and Navy men, WAACS and WAVES. A few well designed articles for civilian defense are also included. And, Just for fun even in wartime, sheets of gay-colored paperboard from which extremely modern domestic animals, dude cowboys, and other toys may be punched out and fitted ingeniously together, are shown. Everything in the exhibition sells for $10 and under.

MoMA Press Release

A complete list of participating artists

is about

World War II (Q362)

Organizer

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Location

New York

Artists

Wright, Russel

Wedgwood, Josiah

Peter Schlumbohm

Corning Glass Works

Cambridge Glass Company

End

Jan 9, 1943

Start

Dec 2, 1942

Date

1940s

Rights Holder

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Museum of Modern Art Online Exhibition ID

2733

Is Referenced By

Wikidata

publications

Useful objects in wartime