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This sixth volume in the Studies in Modern Art series focuses on the unusual 60-year relationship between one of America's prominent contemporary architects, Philip Johnson, and a leading cultural institution, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Johnson has served as curator, patron, and the museum's unofficial architect from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, and illustrated here are paintings and sculptures selected from the more than 2,200 works of all kinds he has contributed to the museum, as well as documentary photographs.A discussion of the series of unprecedented exhibitions that Johnson organized in the early 1930s -- including Modern Architecture -- International Exhibition and Machine Art -- is followed by a thorough examination of his various architectural projects for the museum, including The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The closing essay traces the evolution of the sculpture garden, a New York landmark, within the context of international trends in landscape architecture.