Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

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
Grand Salon Installation-Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jean Shin: Common Threads
The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
1934: A New Deal for Artists

2008
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Modern Masters 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
Obata’s Yosemite

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
Earl Cunningham's America
The Prints of Sean Scully
Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
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 Wegman-Funney/Strange
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
High Fiber

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
Jewels & Gems
Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright

2002
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery