What objects were displayed in the Museum of Modern Art's 1934 Machine Art exhibition?

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Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, designed by Sir James Stirling, featuring tan stone walls, a slanted green-framed glass window, and colorful blue and pink railings. — Museum of modern art The New State Gallery (Neue Staatsgalerie), Stuttgart, Germany, designed by James Stirling, completed in 1984.

The 1934 "Machine Art" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was curated by Philip Johnson and featured a variety of mass-produced industrial objects displayed as fine art.1

Specific items highlighted in the exhibition included:

Faucets1
Boat propellers1
A gasoline pump designed by the Standard Oil Company1

The exhibition was notable for its focus on modern industrial design and for polling the public on which of the displayed objects they considered the most beautiful.1