Past Exhibitions

2008

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 H. Johnson's World on Paper

Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry

Temple of Invention: History of a National Landmark

William Wegman-Funney/Strange

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

Jewels & Gems

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

See also: Past SAAM Exhibitions and Installations, 1958-2016 [PDF]