The 20th Century Poster: Design of the Avant-Garde
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY;
Saint Louis Art Museum, MI; Dayton Art Institute, OH; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec
May 12, 1984–November 10, 1985
Catalogue by Dawn Ades

The first exhibitions that included significant loans from my collection hold a special place for me. They enabled me to activate my collection as a teaching tool at college and university art museums as diverse as Purchase, Williams, Wesleyan, Muhlenberg, Columbia, and Harvard.

The two shows that brought broader attention to my collection—The 20th-Century Poster (1984–1985) and Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1998–1999)—traveled throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan.
I remain grateful to the curators—women in almost every case—with whom I had the privilege to collaborate and who realized these projects and their lasting catalogues.

Art for the Masses: Russian Revolutionary Art from
the Merrill C. Berman Collection
Williams College Museum of the Art, Williamstown, MA, and Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
January 27–October 18, 1985
Catalogue by Darra Goldstein

Avant-Garde Alchemy: Russian Stage Design, 1900–1930
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
April 18–June 8, 1986
Catalogue by Dorothy K. White

Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Design Museum, London
November 5,1989–1990
Catalogue by Mildred Friedman

Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914–1932
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; State Tret’yakov Gallery, Moscow
July 1990–Spring 1991
Catalogue by Richard Andrews and Milena Kalinovska

Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design 1917-1937,
Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection.
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York and Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
February 7, 1996–March 30, 1997
Catalogue by Leah Dickerman

Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age:
Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York; IVAM, Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia;
Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo; Kawasaki City Museum; Obihiro Museum of Art; and Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1998–1999
Catalogue by Deborah Rothschild, Ellen Lupton, and Darra Goldstein

For an overview of collection loans to exhibitions, please click here

November 17, 2021