Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

2008
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