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Paul Rudolph

Artist

WA-00029215

Baroque

Representation

None documented

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Publications Referenced

90%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ1277977 ULAN500011899

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Transformations in Modern Architecture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

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Work in Progress: Architecture by Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1970–1971

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Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1953

Source Registry (1)

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Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Paul Rudolph was an American architect and educator whose buildings combined modernist principles with monumental sculptural form, emphasizing raw concrete, dramatic cantilevers, and expressive structural systems. His practice, which spanned the postwar period through the 1990s, ranged from residential commissions to large-scale institutional projects that treated architecture as a three-dimensional spatial experience. Rudolph's work was characterized by an almost baroque intensity of material and gesture within a modernist framework, and his teaching at Yale School of Architecture profoundly shaped postwar American design pedagogy.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Movement

Baroque

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Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (10)

Residence for Herbert Green, Studies for an Unfolded Modular House, Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, Perspective

1989 · Ink on tracing paper

14 5/8 x 64 3/4" (37.1 x 164.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Dharmala Office Building, Jakarta, Indonesia, Entrance perspective

1983 · Ink on tracing paper

35 1/4 x 44 1/4" (89.5 x 112.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Beach Road II Office Tower Project, Singapore (Exterior perspective)

1981 · Ink and graphite on tracing paper

79 1/2 x 39 1/2" (201.9 x 100.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lower Manhattan Expressway Project, New York, New York (Perspective to the East)

1972 · Ink and graphite on paper

40 x 33 1/2" (101.6 x 85.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Residence for Herbert Green, Cherry Ridge, Pennsylvania (Scale model, 1/4" = 1')

1968 · Plexiglass

17 1/2 x 53 x 32 1/8" (44.5 x 134.6 x 81.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Graphic Arts Center Project, New York, New York, Elevation

1967 · Ink on tracing paper

42 3/4 x 51 3/4" (108.6 x 131.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Arthur W. Milam Residence, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Exterior perspective from beach

1960 · Ink on board

33 x 30" (83.8 x 76.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1958 · Ink on board

30 x 40" (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Yale University, Art and Architecture Building, New Haven, Connecticut, Elevation

1958 · Graphite and colored pencil on paper

27 1/4 x 34 1/4" (69.2 x 87 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Finney Guest House Project, Siesta Key, Florida, Aerial perspective

1949 · Ink and printed polymer sheet on paper

25 1/2 x 18 7/8" (64.8 x 47.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (1)

10 published of 20 catalogued · 20 with image

MoMA
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Images

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Movements1

Baroque

Collections1

Museum of Modern Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Transformations in Modern Architecture

New York · 1979

Group Exhibition Work in Progress: Architecture by Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph

New York · 1970

Group Exhibition Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

New York · 1953