Saturday, October 20, 2012

Century of the Child

Skittles
Giovanni Prini
1916


Rhinoceros
Ladislav Sutnar
c. 1930


Wheelbarrow
Gerrit Rietveld
1923


High Chair
Gerrit Rietveld
1919


Nursery Furniture
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher
c. 1923-24


Sentry Puppet
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
1918


Three Figures
Joaquin Torres-Garcia
c. 1925


Village with Numbers
Joaquin Torres-Garcia
1928



Personifications of Childhood Misdeeds
Minka Podhajska
1930




Building Blocks
Ladislav Sutnar
1940-43




Graf Zeppelin
J.C. Penney Co.
c. 1930

These curious and rather threatening objects represent a tiny sample of those on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York  through November 5th in The Century of the Child : Growing by Design, 1900-2000. MOMA has also (of course) produced a generous & attractive exhibition catalog.