Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
For a complete list of museum exhibitions and installations since 1958, click here.
2012
The Civil War and American Art
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
2011
Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House
Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection
The Great American Hall of Wonders
History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families
2010
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow
A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2009
What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
2008
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury
Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection
The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2007
John Alexander: A Retrospective
Over the Top: American Posters from World War I
Going West! Quilts and Community
Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001–2006
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
From the Ground Up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007
Eadweard Muybridge: The Central American Journey
2006
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection
Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor
American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America
William H. Johnson's World on Paper
Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry
Temple of Invention: History of a National Landmark
Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of "American Gothic"
2005
George Catlin's Indian Gallery
Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design
2004
Right at Home: American Studio Furniture
Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2003
The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years
Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
2002
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
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