date

Chronological List of Past Exhibitions and Installations on View at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
1958-2013

■ = EXHIBITION CATALOGUE OR CHECKLIST PUBLISHED
R = RENWICK GALLERY INSTALLATION/EXHIBITION
May 1921

■ 2/23/58 - 3/16/58
Sixth Biennial Creative Crafts Exhibition Capital Area Art Exhibition - Landscape Club 71st Annual Exhibition Society of Washington Artists Vases from the Etruscan Cemetery at Cerveteri
■ 5/28/65 - 7/5/65
“Draw, Cut, Scratch, Etch -- Print!”
■ 7/19/65 - 9/19/65
Treasures from the Plantin-Moretus Museum
■ 12/2/65 - 1/9/66
Roots of Abstract Art in America 1910 - 1930
■ 1/27/66 - 3/6/66
U.S. Exhibition, VIII Sao Paulo Biennale
■ 2/10/66 - 3/13/66

■ 4/28/66 - 6/19/66
Ancient Art from Afghanistan - Treas. Kabul Museum
■ 9/10/66 - 9/25/66
Paul Manship Memorial Exhibition 1885 - 1966
■ 10/26/66 - 12/4/66

■ 12/1/66 - 1/16/67

■ 4/16/67 - 4/22/67

■ 5/4/67 - 6/18/67

■ 9/20/67 - 11/5/67

■ 10/18/67 - 1/1/68
Personal Impressions by Alice Pike Barney
■ 11/21/67 - 1/7/68
Peter Fink Photographs of Patent Office Building
■ 5/3/68
National Collection of Fine Arts opens at 8th and G Streets N.W.
■ 7/11/68 - 8/18/68

■ 8/15/68 - 9/25/68
An American Collection (Neuberger Collection)
■ 10/10/68 - 11/24/68

■ 12/20/68 - 2/2/69
Venice Biennale XXXIV, American Exhibition
■ 1/9/69 - 2/23/69

■ 1/30/69 - 3/16/69

■ 4/8/69 - 6/1/69

■ 5/8/69 - 6/29/69

■ 7/2/69 - 9/1/69

■ 7/23/69 - 9/14/69

■ 8/15/69 - 10/5/69

■ 9/19/69 - 10/15/69

■ 10/3/69 - 11/16/69

■ 12/12/69 - 1/30/70

■ 1/16/70 - 3/1/70
American Printmaking - The First 150 Years
■ 4/4/70 - 5/10/70
■ 6/12/70 - 7/26/70

■ 7/2/70 - 8/30/70
Five Paintings from Thomas Nast’s Grand Caricaturama Institute of International Education: Artists Abroad
■ 9/25/70 - 11/1/70

■ 11/23/70 - 1/3/71

■ 2/24/71 - 4/4/71

■ 3/22/71 - 4/12/71
Early Work: Art by Students in D.C. Grade Schools
■ 4/23/71 - 5/31/71

■ 5/21/71 - 6/29/71
American Drawings from the Collection of J.D. Hatch American Master Prints from Smithsonian Institution Collections
■ 7/16/71 - 9/26/71
Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual
■ 9/18/71 - 11/7/71
Boris Anisfeldt: 20 Years of Designs for the American Theatre
■ 10/6/71 - 11/14/71

■ 11/15/71 - 1/2/72

■ 12/2/71 - 2/21/72
John Steuart Curry: Theme and Variations The Art of John Held, Jr.: The Roaring Twenties
■ 1/7/72 - 2/21/72

■ 1/28/72 - 3/11/72
Woodenworks: Furniture Objects by Five Contemporary Craftsmen Pueblo Pottery: Zuni and Acoma from Smithsonian Collections
■ 1/28/72 - 3/5/72
National Collection of Fine Arts Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
■ 2/24/72 - 4/30/72

■ 4/7/72 - 5/29/72
Two American Painters: Fritz Scholder and T.C. Cannon
■ 4/7/72 - 6/25/72
Edith Gregor Halpert Memorial Exhibition Photographic Competition, sponsored by Black Women’s League
■ 4/22/72 - 6/2/72

■ 6/11/72 - 10/1/72

■ 5/5/72 - 6/2/72
4th Members Exhibition, Washington Print Club
■ 6/10/72 - 7/30/72

■ 6/23/72 - 8/27/72
National Parks and the American Landscape
■ 7/14/72 - 9/10/72
Artist-Naturalists: Observations in the Americas
■ 8/12/72 - 10/23/72
Announcing the Avant Garde: French Playbills of the 1890s
■ 9/15/72 - 10/23/72
The Way of Good and Evil: Popular Religious Lithographs of 18th Century America
■ 9/29/72 - 11/5/72
The Hand and the Spirit: The Religious Impulse in American Art 1700 – 1900 Countryside/Inner City: Photography by Roland Freeman, Jeff Weiss and their
■ 10/14/72 - 1/7/73
New Prints from the Discover Graphics Project
■ 10/20/72 - 12/3/72

■ 11/26/72 - 1/10/73
Wonder Productions Vol. I: The Evolution of a Book by Ellen Lanyon National Collection of Fine Arts Collection (Contemporary)
■ 12/22/72 - 2/25/73
Brazilian Baroque: Decorative and Religious Objects from the 17th and 18th
■ 1/9/73 - 3/18/73
Johann Herman Carmiencke: Drawings and Watercolors
■ 2/2/73 - 3/25/73

■ 2/9/73 - 4/29/73

■ 2/23/73 - 5/15/73

■ 3/16/73 - 4/15/73
Eighth Dulin Print and Drawing Competition 5 Sense Store: An Aesthetic Design for Education
■ 4/27/73 - 5/28/73

■ 4/27/73 - 6/24/73

■ 6/1/73 - 7/1/73
Three Contemporary Printmakers: Jacob Kainen, Albert Christ-Janer, Tadeusz Lapinski
■ 6/1/73 - 9/9/73
The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876 - 1918 Divergent Representations: Five Contemporary Artists
■ 6/15/73 - 9/3/73
Lilly Martin Spencer (1822-1902): The Joys of Sentiment
■ 7/6/73 - 8/5/73
A Measure of Beauty: The Diffusion of Style in Early Nineteenth Century America
■ 7/27/73 - 10/22/73
Form and Fire: Natzler Ceramics 1939 - 1972
■ 9/21-24/73 - 11/25/73 158

■ 10/13/73 - 12/2/73

■ 10/26/73 - 1/6/74
R■ 11/2/73 - 4/7/74
Shaker: Furniture and Objects from Edward Demming Andrews Collections Commemorating the Bicentenary of the American Shakers Open House at the National Collection of Fine Arts
■ 11/15/73 - 11/9/75
Boxes and Bowls: Decorated Containers by 19th Century Haida, Tlingit, and
■ 11/30/73 - 2/10/74

■ 12/7/73 - 2/3/74
Marguerite Zorach: The Early Years, 1908 - 1920
■ 12/21/73 - 2/24/74

■ 2/8/74 - 5/5/74
Art of the Pacific Northwest: From the 1930s to the Present
■ 2/15/74 - 4/21/74
Herman A. Webster: Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints Santos: Popular Forms of Faith in Latin America Doris M. Magowan Gallery of Portrait Miniatures
■ 4/12/74 - 6/30/74
Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly
■ 5/3/74 - 6/16/74
5th Members Exhibition Washington Print Club
■ 5/17/74 - 8/18/74

■ 5/24/74 - 7/14/74
Anne Ryan Collages/Supplementary Collage Exhibition
■ 6/7/74 - 9/8/74

■ 6/21/74 - 9/8/74
Two Decades of American Prints: 1920 - 1940 A Future for Our Past: The Conservation of Art Index of American Design: Hollowware Renderings Contemporary Nigerian Art: Craftsmen from Oshogbo National Collection of Fine Arts 20th Century Painting and Sculpture
■ 9/13/74 - 11/24/74
19th Century Sculpture (2D East) Installation
■ 10/31/74 - 12/29/74

■ 11/22/74 - 3/9/75

■ 11/29/74 - 2/9/75
Contemporary American Illustrations of Children’s Books
■ 12/20/74 - 2/17/75
Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings 20th Century Painting & Sculpture from the National Collection of Fine Arts Art for Architecture: Washington, DC, 1895 - 1925
■ 4/11/75 - 11/9/75
A Modern Consciousness: D. J. DePree and Florence Knoll
■ 5/9/75 - 7/6/75
Pennsylvania Academy Moderns, 1910 - 1940
■ 6/6/75 - 9/1/75
Academy: The Academic Tradition in American Art
■ 6/20/75 - 10/5/76

■ R 7/4/75 - 2/16/76

■ R 8/1/75 - 11/16/75

■ 10/3/75 - 11/30/75
Sculpture: American Directions, 1945 - 1975
■ 12/5/75 - 2/8/76
Winslow Homer installation (Cooper-Hewitt)
■ 12/19/75 - 2/22/76
1930s Corridor Reinstallation (First Floor)
■ 1/16/76 - 3/14/76
Emanuel Leutze, 1816 - 1868: Freedom is the Only King
■ 1/23/76 - 3/18/76
.and there was light: Studies by Abraham Rattner for the stained glass
■ 2/13/76 - 4/4/76
Permanent Collection Reinstallation - Granite Gallery (prints) Signs of Life: Symbols in the American City Landscape Gallery and Gallery 3E Reinstallation (Permanent Collection) Bicentennial Inventory of American Paintings Executed Before 1914 Behind the Scenes at NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS
■ 4/30/76 - 11/7/76

■ 5/13/76 - 8/1/76
Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect and Designer “American Kaleidoscope ‘76” -- a day for everyone to explore and make art
■ 5/28/76 - 11/28/76

■ 6/25/76 - 1/9/77
Miniature Paintings from Private Collections
■ 9/23/76 - 11/14/76
Washington Print Club Members’ Exhibition
■ R 10/19/76 - 4/3/77
Americas: The Decorative Arts in Latin America in the Era of the Revolution
■ 10/29/76 - 1/2/77

■ 11/19/76 - 1/16/77

■ 11/19/76 - 1/23/77
■ R 12/15/76 - 6/26/77 243

■ 12/22/76 - 7/4/77

■ 1/28/77 - 3/20/77

■ 2/11/77 - 4/17/77
Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor
■ 2/18/77 - 4/10/77
China Revisited: Ink Paintings by Thomas George
■ R 3/18/77 - 11/6/77
Paint on Wood: Decorated American Furniture Since the 17th Century
■ 4/1/77 - 5/22/77
Mauricio Lasansky: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Prints
■ 4/29/77 - 6/12/77

■ 5/20/77 - 9/11/77
California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era (White House China) American Crafts in the White House
■ 5/27/77 - 9/18/77
Wrought Iron Renderings from the Index of American Design
■ 7/9/77 - 10/2/77
Raices y Visiones (Roots and Visions)
■ 7/29/77 - 1/8/78

■ R 8/5/77 - 2/20/78
Landscape Gallery and Corridor installation Johnson Gallery installation [after California exhibition]
■ 9/30/77 - 11/27/77
Permanent collection installation - Galleries 2B, 2C, 3C, 3E [after California exhibition] WPA Art of the 30s - Discover Gallery [after closing California exhibition] ■ 11/4/77 - 1/22/78
The Paintings of Charles Bird King (1785 - 1862) James Hampton’s Throne - permanent installation
■ R 11/24/77 - 3/26/78 273

■ R 12/2/77 - 11/12/78 274
Murals in the Round: Painted Tipis of the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache Indians
■ 12/2/77 - 2/20/78

■ R 12/16/77 - 7/30/78 276
The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright Granite Gallery installation - permanent collection
■ 1/20/78 - 5/21/78
Where Shadows Live: Alice Pike Barney and Her Friends 19th Century Landscape - permanent collection
■ 2/24/78 - 4/30/78

■ 3/3/78 - 5/7/78

■ R 3/31/78 - 8/6/78
Maria Martinez: Five Generations of Potters
■ 4/15/78 - 11/15/78
The New Fabric Surface: Printed, Painted, and Dyed Recent Acquisitions (Prints and Drawings) Installation of Resnick painting New Bride
■ 6/23/78 - 9/17/78
Installation of Bierstadt’s Western Landscape with Lake and Mountains
■ R 9/1/78 - 2/19/79

■ 9/15/78 - 11/19/78
Collector’s Choice: Washington Print Club 7th Biennial Members Exhibition
■ R 9/29/78 - 5/20/79

■ R 9/29/78 - 2/19/79

■ R 9/29/78 - 8/6/79
The Harmonious Craft: American Musical Instruments ■ 10/13/78 - 2/4/79
Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder
■ 10/27/78 - 1/7/79

■ 11/10/78 - 6/10/79
William Penhallow Henderson, 1877 - 1943: An Artist of Santa Fe
■ R 11/17/78 - 6/3/79
Glass by Dale Chihuly: The Cylinder and Basket Series American Color Woodcuts: The Years of Transition
■ R 12/19/78 - 6/17/79 305
Bo’Jou, Neefee! Profiles of Canadian Indian Art
■ 12/22/78 - 7/11/79

■ 1/26/79 - 4/8/79

■ 3/9/79 - 4/29/79

■ 3/16/79 - 5/6/79

R 4/5/70 - indefinite

R 4/6/79 - 8/19/79

■ R 4/6/79 - 8/19/79

■ 5/4/79 - 9/9/79
Prints and Personalities: The American Theater’s First Hundred Years Installation of Works in Lincoln Gallery Art from Chicago: The Koffler Foundation Collection
■ 6/7/79 - 9/3/79
The First Western States Biennial Exhibition Children’s Day/The Texture of the West
■ R 6/15/79 - 9/9/79
The Artist and the Indian at the Turn of the Century
■ R 8/3/79 - 9/22/79

■ 9/14/79 - 12/2/79
Prints for the People: Selections from New Deal Graphics Projects R 9/28/79 - 1/13/80

■ 10/24/79 - 1/13/80

■ 10/26/79 - 1/6/80

R 11/8/79 - 1/27/80
A Century of Ceramics in the U.S., 1878 - 1978
■ 11/30/79 - 3/2/80

■ 12/6/79 - 2/3/80

R 12/21/79 - 3/16/80
Ryijy Rugs from Finland: 200 Years of a Textile Art
■ 2/1/80 - 6/8/80 336
Birds: Selections from the 1979 Annual Exhibition of Art Depicting Birds
■ R 2/1/80 - 4/27/80
Twills with Titles: H. Theodore Hallman, Weaver Kenneth A, Mills, Poet Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors
■ 2/22/80 - 4/20/80

■ R 2/29/80 - 7/6/80
Georg Jensen, Silversmithy: 77 Artists, 75 Years ■ R 3/21/80 - 8/24/80

■ R 4/22/80 - 7/27/80
Tradition Marionettes in French Belgium Today
R 5/2/80 - 7/27/80

R 5/16/80 - 11/11/80

■ 5/23/80 - 8/17/80
John R. Graback, Seventy Years an Artist
■ 6/4/80 - 9/1/80
Across the Nation: Fine Art for Federal Buildings, 1972 - 1979
■ 6/27/80 - 9/14/80

■ 7/11/80 - 10/5/80
Max Weber: Prints and Color Variations (Discover Gallery)
■ 8/15/80 - 3/1/80
Painted Weavings by Lia Cook and Neda AlHilali
■ 8/29/80 - 2/22/81

■ 9/19/80 - 11/30 80
Man and Beast: The Washington Print Club 8th Biennial Members’ Exhibition
■ R 10/3/80 - 2/1/81
Webfoots and Bunchgrassers: Folk Art of the Oregon Country
■ 10/17/80 - 1/11/81
The World of David Gilmour Blythe (1815 - 1865)
■ 10/31/80 - 1/4/81

■ R 11/7/80 - 8/16/81
American Porcelain: New Expressions in an Ancient Art
■ 11/21/80 - 2/8/81
Renderings from the Index of American Design
■ 12/4/80 - 5/10/81
Art for All: American Print Publishing Between the Wars
■ 1/9/81 - 7/12/81
A Feast of Color: Corpus Christi Dance Costumes from Ecuador
■ 1/30/81 - 4/5/81

■ R 3/13/81 - 8/30/81
The Animal Image: Contemporary Objects and the Beast Egypt Today: Embroidered Pictures from Akhmim
■ 4/24/81 - 11/8/81

■ 5/15/81 - 9/20/81
An American Perspective: Selections from the Bequest of Frank McClure
■ 6/5/81 - 9/13/81
George Catlin: The Artist and the American Indian
■ 8/21/81 - 5/21/81

■ 9/18/81 - 1/3/82
Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington
■ 10/2/81 - 1/17/82
The Print in the United States from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
■ 10/16/81 - 2/15/82
Perkins Harnly: From the Index of American Design
■ 10/30/81 - 1/3/82
More Than Land or Sky: Art from Appalachia
■ 11/26/81 - 2/22/82
A Life in Art: Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978)
■ R 12/3/81 - 3/29/82
Good as Gold: Alternative Materials in American Jewelry
■ 1/9/82 - ?
Roosevelt’s America: New Painting from the National Museum of American Art Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors
R 1/29/82 - 4/25/82
■ 2/12/82 - 3/21/82
Recent Trends in Collecting: Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture from the
■ 2/12/82 - 5/9/82
Egypt: Day and Night, Watercolors by Keith Achepohl
■ R 3/17/82 - 6/26/82
Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual (Part I) Recent Acquisitions: Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture Elihu Vedder’s Drawings for the Rubaiyat
■ 5/7/82 - 8/8/82 398
The First Annual Awards in the Visual Arts Exhibition/AVA 1
■ 5/26/82 - 8/22/82
Prints and Multiples: 79th Exhibition by Artists in Chicago and Vicinity
■ 6/4/82 - 8/29/82

R 6/11/82 - 10/11/82

■ R 8/26/82 - 2/21/83
Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual (Part II)
■ 9/3/82 - 10/31/82
In Pursuit of. (The Washington Print Club 9th Biennial Members’ Exhibition)
■ 9/17/82 - 11/28/82
William H. Johnson: The Scandinavian Years
■ 9/24/82 - 12/5/82
Familiar But Unique: The Monoprints of Joseph Goldyne
■ 11/5/82 - 4/10/83

■ 11/19/82 - 2/27/83
Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources Threads: Seven American Artists and Their Miniature Textile Pictures
■ 1/14/83 - 4/17/83
Elizabeth Nourse, 1859 - 1938: A Salon Career
■ 1/28/83 - 3/27/83
Speaking a New Classicism: American Architecture Now
■ 3/18/83 - 5/8/83
■ 4/15/83 - 9/5/83

■ 6/10/83 - 8/14/83

■ 7/8/83 - 10/10/83
Manship Sculpture: Works from the Permanent Collection
■ 9/9/83 - 1/8/84
Provincetown Printers: A Woodcut Tradition
■ R 9/16/83 - 6/17/84

■ 10/19/83 - 1/22/84
The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, D.C., 1800 - 1915 Lafayette Square, 1963 - 1983: Architecture, Preservation, and the Presidency
■ 11/4/83 - 3/4/84

■ 12/1/83 - 2/20/84
Sawtooths and Other Ranges of Imagination: Contemporary Art from Idaho
■ R 12/16/83 - 2/26/84 423
The Flexible Medium: Art Fabric from the Museum’s Collection
■ R 2/17/84 - 7/8/85
Fanfare (Fans from the 18th Century - 20th Century) Parts I, II, III
■ R 3/30/84 - 9/3/84
Harvey K. Littleton Retrospective Exhibition Glass Works from the Museum’s Collection
■ R 4/27/84 - 8/19/84

■ 5/1/84 - 9/3/84 430
Woodworks: Constructions by Robert Indiana
■ 5/18/84 - 7/19/84
Exposed and Developed: Photography Sponsored by the NEA
R 5/25/84 - 10/4/84
Prints/1960 - 1970 -- Selections from the Collection
■ 6/1/84 - 10/7/84
Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department
■ 6/8/84 - 9/3/84
Fantasy and Imagination: Sculpture by Eugenie Gershoy
■ 10/5/84 - 12/24/84
Werner Drewes: Sixty-five Years of Printmaking
■ R 10/19/84 - 4/7/85

■ R 11/2/84 - 2/24/85
People and Places: Selections from the Collection Pastel Portraits from Barney Studio House Homage to Franz Kline: Photographs by Aaron Siskind
■ 1/15/85 - 4/7/85
Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in 19th Century America
■ 2/15/85 - 5/12/85
Zoo to Art: Animal Subjects by American Sculptors
■ 3/29/85 - 7/14/85
Creation and Renewal: View of Cotopaxi by Frederic E. Church
■ R 4/26/85 - 9/22/85
Material Evidence: New Color Techniques in Handmade Furniture (SITES)
■ 5/3/85 - 8/18/85

■ R 5/3/85 - 7/29/85
Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
R 6/12/85 - 1/5/86
The Woven and Graphic Art of Anni Albers
■ 6/21/85 - 9/15/85

■ 8/16/85 - 11/3/85
Nature’s Forms, Nature’s Forces: The Art of Alexandre Hogue Photographs from the Permanent Collection
■ 10/24/85 - 1/19/86
Art, Design, and the Modern Corporation: the Collection of the Container Corporation of America
■ R 11/15/85 - 3/16/86 456
Treasures from the Land, Twelve New Zealand Craftsmen and their Native Materials
■ 11/29/85 - 3/23/85
Conversations with Another World: Romaine Brooks
■ R 12/24/85 - 5/11/86 460
Masterpieces of Time: New Clocks by Wendell Castle
■ 3/7/86 - 6/15/86
Art in New Mexico 1900 - 1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe Symbols and Ceremonies: Pueblo Indian Watercolors
■ 4/4/86 - 8/17/86

■ R 4/17/86 - 9/28/86

■ R 4/26/86 - 9/1/86
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings
■ 5/16/86 - 9/7/86
Figure Prints: The Washington Print Club 11th Members Biennial Exhibition
■ 9/12/86 - 11/23/86
Unknown Territory: Photography by Ray Metzker ■ 10/24/86 - 1/11/87

■ R 10/17/86 - 1/5/87
Russia: The Land, The People, 1840 - 1910
■ 1/29/87 - 8/14/87
Modern American Realism, The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
■ 2/27/87 - 4/12/87

R 3/6/87 - 6/7/87

■ R 4/17/87 - 7/26/87

■ 5/8/87 - 6/7/87

■ R 6/26/87 - 10/25/87 478

■ 7/10/87 - 11/7/87
Close Focus: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
■ 9/17/87 - 11/22/87
American Traditions in Watercolor: The Worcester Art Museum Collection
■ R 10/2/87 - 3/6/88
Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965 - 1985
■ R 11/13/87 - 2/14/88 484

■ 12/1/87 - 1/31/88
Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston Special Delivery: Murals for the New Deal Era
■ 3/4/88 - 6/18/88
City Life: Photographs by Bruce Davidson
■ R 3/25/88 - 10/23/88 488

■ 4/8/88 - 7/4/88

■ R 4/22/88 - 7/24/88

■ 8/12/88 - 10/16/88
Lucas Samaras: Objects and Subjects 1969 - 1986
■ R 10/21/88 - 2/12/89 493

■ 12/2/88 - 2/20/89

■ 2/17/89 - 7/3/89

R 4/7/89 - 8/6 89
The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages
■ R 4/7/89 - 8/30/89

■ 4/28/89 - 9/10/89
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts
■ 8/4/89 - 11/19/89
Modernist Abstraction in American Prints
■ 9/8/89 - 2/11/90
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection: American Abstraction, 1930 - 1945
■ R 9/29/89 - 3/4/90

R 10/6/89 - 1/1/90

■ 11/22/89 - 2/19/90
Treasures of American Folk Art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
■ 12/3/89 - 2/11/90
Training the Hand and Eye: Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
■ R 2/9/90 - 6/2/90
Elizabeth Catlett: Object of the Month Installation
■ 3/30/90 - 8/19/90

■ 4/6/90 - 8/29/90

■ R 4/20/90 - 9/3/90
Tradition and Innovation: New American Furniture
R 5/4/90 - 10/28/90

■ 6/8/90 - 8/19/90
Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts
R 7/27/90 - 11/25/90
Structure and Surface: Beads in Contemporary American Art
■ 9/7/90 - 11/12/90
Visual Poetry: The Drawings of Joseph Stella
■ 9/22/90 - 1/21/91
Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection
■ 10/5/90 - 1/6/91
Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited
R 11/9/90 - 2/3/91

■ 11/22/90 - 3/17/91
Harlem: Photographs by Aaron Siskind, 1932 - 1940
R 12/21/90 - 9/15/91

■ 2/8/91 - 5/27/91
Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout’s Neck Observed
■ 3/15/91 - 7/28/91
The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820 - 1920
■ 3/29/91 - 6/16/91
Tokens of Affection: The Portrait Miniature in America
■ R 4/12/91 - 7/21/91

■ 6/28/91 - 9/8/91
Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography
■ 9/13/91 - 3/1/92
Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro-America, 1938 - 1946
■ R 9/27/91 - 1/4/92
Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking
■ R 11/22/91 - 3/22/92 533

■ 3/6/92 - 6/28/92
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
■ R 3/20/92 - 7/26/92
John McQueen: The Language of Containment
■ 4/3/92 - 6/28/92

■ 5/8/92 - 7/26/92

R 6/26/92 - 3/21/93

■ 7/17/92 - 10/18/92
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: An American Visionary
■ 7/17/92 - 10/18/92

R 9/25/92 - 1/24/93
American Crafts: The Nation's Collection ■ R 9/25/92 - 1/10/93
Albert Paley: Studies for the Portal Gates
■ 10/2/92 - 1/3/93
Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden 1940-1987
■ 11/20/92 - 2/15/93
Vision and Revision: The Hand Colored Prints of Wayne Thiebaud
R 1/14/93 - 2/28/93
Flora and Fauna: The World According to David Beck
■ 3/27/93 - 7/5/93
American Impressions: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
■ R 4/2/93 - 8/1/93
American Wicker: Woven Furniture from 1850 - 1930
■ 4/16/93 - 8/15/93
Revisiting the White City: Art at the 1893 World’s Fair Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts ■ 9/10/93 - 1/2/94
The Arvin Gottlieb Collection: Paintings from the American Southwest
■ R 10/8/93 - 1/9/94
The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life Earthly Constellation: Photographs by Linda Connor On Location: Landscapes and Cityscapes in American Photography from the Museum’s Collection
■ R 2/18/94 - 4/17/94
William Daley: Ceramic Works and Drawings
■ R 2/25/94 - 4/17/94
KPMG Peat Marwick Collection of American Crafts; A Gift to the Renwick Gallery
■ 3/17/94 - 8/7/94
North American Wildflowers: Watercolors by Mary Vaux Walcott
■ 4/15/94 - 8/14/94
Capital View: A New Washington Panorama by Mark Klett
R 4/13/94 - 5/10/94
Dale Chihuly Opera Maquettes & Drawings
■ R 6/3/94 - 8/21/94
Contemporary Navajo Weavings: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts
R 6/27/94 - 9/25/94

■ 9/16/94 - 1/1/95

■ R 10/28/94 - 2/5/95
Contemporary Crafts from the Saxe Collection
R 11/10/94 - 2/5/95
Allen West Meets East: Four Folding Screens
■ 10/28/94 - 2/26/95
Free Within Ourselves: African-American Art from the Museum’s Collection
■ 2/10/95 - 5/21/95

■ R 3/17/95 - 4/30/95
Will Barnet: An Intimate View from the Museum’s Collection
■ R 3/31/95 - 6/18/95
Marriage in Form: Kay Sekimachi and Bob Stocksdale ■ R 4/7/95 - 6/18/95
Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of African-American Craft
■ 4/28/95 - 9/4/95
The White House Collection of American Crafts Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts
■ 6/29/95 - 10/29/95
Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype Gene Davis in Black and White: Drawings from the Fifties and Eighties
■ R 8/25/95 - 1/1/96

■ R 8/25/95 - 1/1/96
Rick Dillingham (1952 - 1994): A Retrospective
■ 11/17/95 - 3/17/96
Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1896 - 1917
■ R 3/15/96 - 7/7/96

■ R 3/15/96 - 7/7/96
Elihu Vedder’s Drawings from the Rubaiyat
■ 5/10/96 - 8/4/96
Contemporary Printmaking: Collaborative Prints and Presses Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts Lost and Found: Edmonia Lewis’ Cleopatra
■ 7/19/96 - 10/14/96
Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured
■ R 9/13/96 - 1/12/97
Calico and Chintz: Antique Quilts from the Collection of Patricia S. Smith
■ R 9/13/96 - 1/12/97
Conservation by Design: Contemporary Work in Wood
■ 10/4/96 - 2/2/97
American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art
■ 11/22/96 - 4/20/97
American Photographs: The First Century from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art
R 3/14/97 - 6/13/97

■ 4/4/97 - 8/3/97
Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America Watercolors between the World Wars: Selections from the Collection
■ 5/30/97 - 9/28/97
The Bard Brothers: Painting America under Steam and Sail David Hockney’s Snails Space: Painting as Performance
R 6/20/97
Presidential Scholars in Photography, Visual Arts and Writing Nam June Paik’s Megatron/Matrix George Catlin’s Indian Gallery [permanent collection galleries]
■ R 9/12/97 - 1/4/98

■ 9/26/97 - 1/25/98

■ 10/3/97 - 3/8/98
Colonial Art from Puerto Rico: Selections from the Gift of Teodoro Vidal
■ 11/14/97 - 3/29/98
Ansel Adams, A Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography Collection
■R 3/7/98 - 7/5/98
Inspiring Reform: Boston’s Arts and Crafts Movement
R 3/7/98 - 7/5/98

■ 3/27/98 - 8/9/98

■ 5/2/98 - indefinite
Colonial Art from Puerto Rico: Selections from the Gift of Teodoro Vidal
■ 5/22/98 - 9/7/98
David Hockney: A Bigger Grand Canyon
■ R 9/11/98 – 1/3/99
The Stonewares of Charles Fergus Binns: Father of American Studio Ceramics
■ R 9/11/98 – 1/3/99
Eyeing America: Robert Cottingham Prints Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Prints
■ 10/30/98 – 3/7/99

■ 10/30/98 – 3/7/99
Silver and Gold: Photographs of the Gold Rush
■ 12/18/98 – 4/25/99

■R 3/19/99 – 8/25/99

■R 3/19/99 – 8/25/99

■ 4/2/99 – 8/22/99
Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory
R 9/24/99 – 1/30/2000

■ 9/24/99 – 1/3/2000
Modern American Realism: Selections from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection African-American Art: Recent Acquisitions Birthday Tribute to Jacob Kainen and Selections from the Washington Color School
■ 10/22/99 – 1/3/2000
Main museum building closes for renovations
■R 3/31/00 – 8/20/00
The Art of John Cederquist: Reality of Illusion
R 3/31/00 – 8/20/00
The Renwick Invitational: Five Women in Craft
R 6/2/00 – 7/1/02 (?)

■R 10/6/00 – 1/21/01
Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary Quilts by African American Artists
■R 10/6/00 – 1/21/01
Amish Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown
R 11/18/00 – 2/19/01
Star Spangled Presidents: Portraits by Liza Lou
■R 3/19/01 – 7/15/01

■R 9/14/01 – 1/20/02

■R 3/15/02 – 7/14/02

R 6/14/02 – 10/14/02
The Renwick Invitational: Four Discoveries in Craft
■R 9/06/02 – 1/20/03

R 2/01/03 – 1/04/04
George Catlin’s Indian Gallery [Grand Salon]
R 2/27/04 – 10/23/05
Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum [Grand Salon]
■ R 3/14/03 – 7/20/03
Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
R 9/26/03 - 2/8/04

■ R 9/26/03 - 1/19/04
The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of 40 Years
R 4/2/04 - 1/17/05
Right at Home: American Studio Furniture
R 3/11/05-7/10/05

R 11/24/05-4/26/09
George Catlin’s Indian Gallery [Grand Salon]
■ R 9/16/05-1/22/06
Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design
■ R 3/10/06-7/16/06
Grant Wood’s Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic Grand Opening - installation of the permanent collection following building renovation
■ 7/1/06-9/17/06
American ABC: Childhood in 19th Century America
■ 7/1/06-9/24/06

■ 7/1/06-1/8/07
Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry
■ 7/1/06-1/21/08
Temple of Invention: History of a National Landmark
■ R 9/1/06-1/15/07

■ 11/3/06-2/4/07
An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection
■ 11/17/06-2/19/07
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination Eadweard Muybridge: The Central American Journey
■ R 3/9/07-7/22/07
From the Ground Up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007
■ 4/6/07-6/24/07

■ 4/13/07-7/29/07
Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections Presidential Scholars in Photography, Visual Arts and Writing
■ 8/10/07-11/4/07

■ 9/14/07-1/6/08
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001–2006
■ R 10/5/07-1/21/08
Over the Top: American Posters from World War I
■ 12/21/07-3/16/08

■ 2/29/08-5/26/08
Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975 The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln’s Inaugural Ball
■ R 3/14/08-7/6/08
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection
■ 5/9/08-8/3/08
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury ■ 9/26/08-1/4/09
Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
■ R 10/3/08-1/11/09
Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
■ 2/27/09-1/3/10

■ R 3/13/09-6/7/09
The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
■ R 6/6/09
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Presidential Scholars in the Arts Exhibition
■ R 8/7/09-1/3/10
Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009
■ 10/2/09-1/24/10
What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
■ 2/12/10-5/9/10
Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan
■ R 3/5/10-1/30/11
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from Japanese American Internment Camps,
■ 4/2/10-9/26/10
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence
■ 7/2/10-1/2/11
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and
■ 8/27/10-1/17/11

■ R 9/24/10 - 1/30/11
A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection
■ 11/19/10 - 5/8/11
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families
■ 3/11/11-9/5/11
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
■ R 3/25/11-7/31/11
History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 Presidential Scholars in the Arts Exhibition
■ 7/15/11-1/8/12

■ R 10/1/11-5/6/13
Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection
■ 1/20/12-5/20/12

■ 3/16/12-9/30/12
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
■ 4/27/12-9/3/12
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
■ R 7/20/12-2/3/13

■ 11/16/12-4/28/13

■ 12/13/12-8/11/13

R ■ 4/12/13-7/28/13
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
■ 6/28/13-1/5/14
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes

Note on museum’s names: the museum was known as the National Collection of Fine Arts until 1980; from 1980 to 2000, the
museum was called the National Museum of American Art. On October 27, 2000, its name became the Smithsonian
American Art Museum. For additional information, please visit the museum’s website at AmericanArt.si.edu.
Updated 5-14-13/lb

Source: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/past/past_exhibitions.pdf