Archived Past Exhibitions 1983 – 2011

Losing Todd: A Mother’s Journey (Sadler Center/Museum Muscarelle Annex)
September 1, 2011 – October 23, 2011

Curators at Work
November 5, 2010 – January 2, 2011

Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, Hockney and More New Acquisitions 2005 – 2010
November 6 – December 31, 2010

Envelopes: Architect’s Unfinished Experiments with Building “Skins” (Organized by Pratt Manhattan Gallery, and curated by Christopher Hight)
September 17 – October 24, 2010

Pursuing Perfection: Highlights and Select Loans from the Museum Collection
November 15, 2008 – July 30, 2010

Merging Souls: Arts of Devotion in Latin America
April 24 – July 18, 2010

Unbearable Beauty: Triumph of the Human Spirit, Photographs by W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith
April 24 – July 18, 2010

3rd Annual Developing World Gallery (Sadler Center/Museum Muscarelle Annex)
April 1 – May 7, 2010

Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master
February 4 – April 11, 2010

Deeply Superficial: Andy Warhol’s “Voyeurism”
November 7, 2009 – January 17, 2010

Nat Finkelstein: Factory Photography (Sadler Center/Museum Muscarelle Annex)
October 14,2009 – March 30,2010

Spanish Baroque in the New World: Sibyls from Zurbarán’s Studio
August 4 – November 1,2009

Faculty Show Eleven
September 5 – October 25,2009

The New Outcasts / Los Nuevos Olvidados: Photographs by Octavio Kano-Galván
March 2 – April 1, 2009

Assignment Middle East and Africa: Selected Work from Photojournalist Paul Taggart
February 4 – March 1, 2009

The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery
November 13, 2008 – March 22, 2009

Highlights from the George W. Roper, II Collection
October 24, 2008 – January 31, 2009

Extreme Explorations…
Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Diversity of Life in the Deep-Ocean Wilderness
Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astrological Prints from the Mendillo Collection
Diving with a Camera: Photographs by Dennis Liberson
September 5 – November 2, 2008

Impressions and Expressions: Modern Masters of American Printmaking
April 11 – June 26, 2008

Pursuing Perfection: Selected Loans and Highlights of the Permanent Collection
January 25 – November 2, 2008

Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi
January 25 – March 23, 2008

Legacy of the Generations: Jacob Lawrence’s Legend of John Brown
Up a Hill, Down a Hollow: The Paintings of Mississippi Folk Artist Effie Lee Spell Read
By Howard Finster from God: Man of Visions
November 16 – December 16 – 2007

America the Beautiful: The Monumental Landscape of Clyde Butcher
September 6 – December 16, 2007

Building a College: The Colonial Revival Campus at The College of William & Mary
September 6 – November 12, 2007

Stars & Stripes: Rare and Historic American Flags
June 16 – July 29, 2007

Visions of the Soul: Works by Hans Friedrich Grohs
May 5 – July 29, 2007

An American Story: The Wyeth Family Tradition In Art
April 21 – May, 2007

David Roberts: Nineteenth-Century Views of Egypt and the Holy Land on Loan from Friends of the Reeves Center
February 10 – April 8, 2007

The Faithful Samurai: Kuniyoshi Woodblock Prints
February 10 – April 8, 2007

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Contemporary Native American Paintings and the Response to Colonization…Anniversary of the Beginning… Beginning of the End
February 10 – April 8, 2007

10th W&M Faculty Show
October 28, 2006 – January 7, 2007

Medici in America, Natura Morta: Still-Life Paintings of the Medici Collections and Caravaggio’s Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge
November 11, 2006 – January 7, 2007

The Tsar’s Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts Under the Romanovs
Russian Realist Paintings by Byacheslav Zabelin: The Wurdeman Collection
Tradition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs from Hillwood Museum & Gardens
August 26, 2006 – October 8, 2006

Lewis Cohen: Five Decades, Drawings & Sculptures, A Retrospective
April 8 – June 4, 2006

Tapestries: The Great Twentieth Century Modernist
January 21 – March 26, 2006

Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection
November 5, 2005 – January 8, 2006

Charles E. Burchfield: Backyards and Beyond
August 27 – October 23, 2005

American Drawing Biennial 8 & American Drawing Biennial: Selections from the Past
June 11 – August 14, 2005

Animals in African Art from the Collection of Wallace Gusler
April 2 – May 29, 2005

9th W&M Faculty Show
Faculty Choice
January 22 – March 20, 2005

Live with History: Photographs from the Archives of the New York Times &, Ginsberg & Beat Fellows
November 6, 2004 – January 9, 2005

Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge
August 28 – October 24, 2004

With Paintbrush & Shovel – Preserving Virginia’s Wildflowers
June 12 – August 15, 2004

Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection
April 3 – May 30, 2004

American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement
January 24 – March 21, 2004

William & Mary Collects II: A Celebration & Looking Back 20 Years
November 1, 2003 – January 11, 2004

Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye, Nature Morte
Ten by Appel
August 23 – October 19, 2003

Georgia O’Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art
Summer by the Sea
May 31 – August 10, 2003

Reconstructing Forms: Contemporary Sculpture by Amaldo Pomodoro
February – April, 2003

Winslow Homer the Illustrator: His Wood Engravings, 1857 – 1888
February – April, 2003

Windows on the West: Views from the American Frontier – The Phelan Collection
October 10, 2002 – January 12, 2003

Ken Aptekar: Painting Between the Lines, Works from 1990 – 2000
August 24 – October 6, 2002

Machines of the Mind, Sculpture by Lawerence Fane
March 30 – May 12, 2002

African & African-American Works of Art from the Permanent Collection
February 1 – March 17, 2002

8th W&M Faculty Show
Selections by Art History Faculty
January 26 – March 17, 2002

In Memoriam – Howard Finster
November 11, 2001 – January 27, 2002

Huda Lufti: A Contemporary Artist from Egypt
October 21, 2001 – January 13, 2002

Shaped with Passion: The Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Collection of Japanese Ceramics from the 1970’s
Japanese Works of Art from the Permanent Collection
August 18 – October 7, 2001

James Rosenquist: Pop Print Maker & Pop Triumphant: The New Realism
July 14 – August 12, 2001

The Solar Wall: Past, Present & Future?
June 9 – October 7, 2001

Quilt National 1999: The Best in Contemporary Quilts
May 5 – July 7, 2001

American Twentieth-Century Watercolors at the Munson – Williams – Procter Arts Institute
March 3 – April 29, 2001

Georgia O’Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist’s First Public Exhibition in the South
January 27 – April 27, 2001

Picasso: 25 Years of Edition Ceramics from the Edward & Ann Weston Collection
January 13 – February 25, 2001

Robert Natkin: Themes & Variations
January 4, 2000 – January 7, 2001

New Acquisitions
November 4, 2000 – January 7, 2001

Bridges and Boundaries Revisited: African Americans & American Jews
August 26 – October 29, 2000

American Drawing Biennial VII
June 3 – July 25, 2000

Crossed Purposes: Joyce and Max Kozloff
Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode
March 25 – May 21, 2000

Lifting the Rose – Colored Glasses: Three Social Realists
Works in Progress: Selections from the Permanent Collection
January 22 – March 19, 2000

For Posterity: Selections from the National Academy of Design
A Forgotten Williamsburg: J.J. Lankes Prints
October 2, 1999 – January 16, 2000

Mexico! Photographs by Manuel Carrillo
August 27 – September 26, 1999

Imagining the World through Native Painting: Popular Art from Ibero America
August 28 – September 26, 1999

Mapping the West: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photographs from the Collection of the Boston Public Library
May 29 – July 11, 1999

More than Words: Book Illustrations of J.J. Lankes
May 29 – August 22, 1999

Drawings and Paintings by Henry Coleman
March 25 – May 21, 1999

Facing the Past: Portraits from the Permanent Collection
March 20 – August 1, 1999

All-Stars: American Sporting Prints from the Collection of Reba & Dave Williams
January 16 – March 14, 1999

American Drawing Biennial 6
Looking Back: A Decade of ADB Exhibitions
October 24, 1998 – January 9, 1999

Selections from the Maria Herman Lania Print Collection
August 26, 1998 – March 21, 1999

Hung Lui: A Ten Year Survey 1988 – 1998
August 26 – October 18, 1998

Ties That Bind: & Exhibitions of Iban Ikat Fabrics
African Sculpture: The Gift Collection of Robert C. McCarthy & Paul D. McCarthy, W&M ’77
Weather Permitting
July 11 – August 16, 1998

Diversity! Studio Art Quilts
Weather Permitting
May 2 – June 28, 1998

7th W&M Faculty Show
February 28 – April 26, 1998

New Acquisitions
December 15, 1997 – May 1, 1998

Memories of Brooklyn
American Painting from the Tweed Museum
October 25 – December 7, 1997

Inuit II: From the Collection of Frederick & Lucy S. Herman
Contemporary American Indian Art: The Joe Fedderson Collection
August 23 – October 19, 1997

Building Form: Ansel Adams & Architecture
June 14 – August 17, 1997

Memories of Childhood: So We’re Not the Cleavers or the Brady Brunch
Reflections of Childhood
March 15 – May 25, 1997

Will Barnet and Bob Blackburn, An Artistic Friendship in Relief
January 11 – March 9, 1997

Robin Tichane: AIDS’ Dark Terrain
December 1, 1996 – March 9, 1997

Recent Acquisitions
December 7, 1996 – January 5, 1997

Collector’s Choice
December 7, 1996 – January 5, 1997

Nell Blaine
October 19 – December 1, 1996

Goya! Prints by the Spanish Master
August 31 – October 13, 1996

The European Phoenix: Selections from the Maria Herman Lania Collection of Contemporary Prints
The McCarthy Collection of African Art
June 26 – August 25, 1996

6th W&M Faculty Show
April 20 – May 26, 1996

American Drawing Biennial V
March 9 – April 14, 1996

Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria & Albert Museum
January 20 – March 3, 1996

Constance Stuart Larrabee: Time Exposure
December 9, 1995 – March 3, 1996

African-American Works on Paper
October 21 – December 3, 1995

NCECA 1995 Clay National
September 2 – October 15, 1995

Before Discovery: Artistic Development in the Americas Before the Arrival of Columbus
May 27 – August 27, 1995

The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
April 1 – May 21, 1995

The Reverend James Blair: Preparatory Models & Drawings for the Stature by Lewis Cohen
February 25 – May 21, 1995

Drawings & Watercolors by Hans Grohs
February 25 – March 26, 1995

Cityscapes (Portfolio from the Permanent Collection)
January 14 – May 21, 1995

Works by Warhol
Prints from the Permanent Collection
January 14 – February 19, 1995

Artisans in Silver, 1994
Private Miracles, Public Thanks: Votive Art of Latin America
November 19, 1994 – January 1, 1995

Drawn on the Spot: Perceptions and Views
October 15, 1994 – January 8, 1995

Howard Finster
Medals & Metals: Small Sculptures from the Permanent Collection
October 15 – November 13, 1994

Leadership Arts of West Africa
Master Impressions
August 13 – October 9, 1994

The Conceptual Canvas: Abstract Expressionism Paintings from the Museum’s Jean Outland Chrysler Collection
Robert Ranieri
Animalia
May 14 – June 31, 1994

Nissan Engel: Nouvelles Dimensions
The Book of Art
March 19 – May 1, 1994

American Drawing Biennial IV
January 15 – March 6, 1994

Contemporary Inuit Drawings: The Gift Collection of Frederick & Lucy S. Herman
Beasts of Vision
November 20, 1993 – January 2, 1994

5th W&M Faculty Show
Architectural Drawing by Sir Christopher Wren
October 16 – November 14, 1993

The American Scene: Prints from the 1920’s & 1930’s from the Museum Collection
The Burns Collection
August 21 – October 10, 1993

Gifford Beal: Picture-Maker
Reynolds Beal: American Impressionist
August 21 – October 10, 1993

In the Spirit of Jefferson
A Photographic Eassy Competition
African Sculpture from the McCarthy Collection
May 29 – August 1, 1993

Collaboration: Mountain Lake Workshop
April 3 – May 16, 1993

A Golden Age of Painting: Dutch, Flemish & German Paintings of the the 16th – 17th Centuries from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas
The Fine Art of Drawing: Works on Paper from the Museum and the Herman Foundation Collections
January 23 – March 21, 1993

African Sculpture: The Gift Collection of Robert C. McCarthy & Paul D. McCarthy, W&M ’77
Master Works on Paper from the Museum Collection
December 5, 1992 – January 3, 1993

Spirit of the South: The Sculpture of Alexander Galt and Alexander Galt: The Man Revealed
a 19th Century Album: American Portraits from the Museum Collection
October 17 – November 29, 1992

Late Medieval & Early Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Robert Keyer’s Watercolors of a Persian Bowl
Pattern, Color & the Potter’s Hand: Islamic Ceramic from the James L. Graves Collection
August 22 – October 11, 1992

Southern Quilts: A New View
June 6 – October 16, 1992

Jack Beal: Works on Paper American Drawing Biennial III
Drawn in the Past: Selections from Earlier American Drawing Exhibitions
April 11 – May 24, 1992

Lila Katzen Quincentenary Sculpture Exhibition: Isabel, Columbus & the Statue of Liberty
East Meets West: Japanese Tradition in Western Prints
February 29 – April 5, 1992

Spotlight on Conservation
January 18 – April 3, 1992

4th W&M Faculty Show
Bernard Chaet: Five Decades of Drawing
January 18 – February 23, 1992

The Rowdy London of William Hogarth
November 16, 1991 – January 12, 1992

1991 Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection
November 16 – December 15, 1991

African Art: Power, Wisdom & Passages
Old Master Drawings from the Herman Foundation Collection
September 28 – November 10, 1991

The Buck Stops Here (original paintings from the children’s book)
September 14 – November 10, 1991

Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness
American Indian Pottery
August 3 – September 22, 1991

Impressive Impressions: Prints from the Museum Collection
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Permanent Collection
May 4 – June 16, 1991

Rodin: Sculpture from the B. Gerald Cantor Collection
February 28 – April 28, 1991

Contemporary Abstract Painting: Resnick, Reed, Laufer & Moore
January 19 – February 17, 1991

Georgy Kadar: Survivor of Death, Witness of Life
January 12 – February 17, 1991

Sculpture by Harold Tovish
October 27, 1990 – January 16, 1991

Literacy through Art: A Celebration of the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration
August 25 – October 14, 1990

Currier & Ives
June 9 – August 12, 1990

American Drawing Biennial II
April 14 – June 30, 1990

3rd W&M Faculty Show
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Artist’s Landscape
Photographs by Todd Webb Wit & Whimsy
March 10 – April 8, 1990

Portraits & Prospects: British & Irish Drawings & Watercolors from the Collection of the Ulster Museum
Belfast, British & Irish Decorative Arts from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Eastern Ceramics
January 13 – March 4, 1990

Robert Cottingham: A Print Retrospective 1972 – 1989
November 4, 1989 – January 7, 1990

Oriental Expressions
Contemporary Inuit Drawings
August 26 – October 29, 1989

Paris 1910 – 1931: Autochromes from the Albert Kahn Collection
June 1 – August 20, 1989

Photographs by A. Aubrey Bodine
Baroque Drawings from the Herman Foundation Collection
May 6 – June 25, 1989

Photographs by David Hockney
March 18 – April 30, 1989

So Good a Design:  The Colonial Campus of The College of William & Mary, Its History, Background & Legacy
King William’s Praise:  Romeyn de Hooghe’s Etchings of William III
Chronicle of Stuarts’ Fate: Engravings by Cornelius Danckerts
January 14 – March 12, 1989

Eleven Pre-Columbian Cultures of Ecuador
December 3, 1988 – January 8, 1989

Folk Paintings by Lee Brooks and Rosa Brooks Beason
October 29, 1988 – January 8, 1989

Collector’s Choice
October 22 – November 27, 1988

Jasper Johns Prints
September 3 – October 23, 1988

Elders of the Tribe
August 27 – October 16, 1988

Of People & Places: The Floyd & Josephine Segel Collection of Photography
June 16 – August 21, 1988

Photographs of Manuel Carrillo
Selections from the Museum’s Permanent Collection
May 7 – August 21, 1988

American Drawing Biennial
Coastal Floristics
March 19 – May 1, 1988

Edward Hopper: City, Country, Town
March 12 – April 24, 1988

Paintings by Robert Keyser
January 30 – March 13, 1988

2nd W&M Faculty Show
January 23 – March 6, 1988

20th Century Graphic Art from the Museum Collection
November 27, 1987 – January 24, 1988

Art & the Law
December 21 1987 – January 17, 1988

Ceramics from the Kassebaum Collection
October 27, 1987 – January 17, 1988

Figure Drawing by 20th Century Artists from the Frederick & Lucy S. Herman Foundation Collection
September 26 – November 15, 1987

Contemporary Artists from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
September 29 – November 15, 1987

Photographs by Yousuf Karsh
July 4 – September 20, 1987

Cowan Collections of 19th – 20th Century American Painting
June 17 – September 27, 1987

Italian Renaissance Art 1300 – 1600: Selections from the Piero Corsoni Gallery
April 18 – June 9, 1987

Old Master Drawings from the Collection of John & Alice Steiner
February 28 – April 12, 1987

Modern Primitives of Spain
January 17 – February 22, 1987

Animation Art from the Disney Studio
November 28, 1986 – January 11, 1987

Classic Bolivian Textiles
October 18 – November 23, 1986

Colonial Portraits from the Permanent Collection
October 1986

Red Grooms: The Graphic Work
August 30 – October 12, 1986

Woodblock Prints by Un’ichi Hiratsuki
Selections from the Museum Collection
June 14 – August 24, 1986

Contemporary Ceramics
Maria Herman Lania Print Collection
April 19 – June 1, 1986

The Creative Printmaker & Caricatures by James Gillray
March 8 – April 13, 1986

Adornments & Sacral Art
January 18 – March 2, 1986

Cheek and the Arts
November 29, 1985 – January 5, 1986

1st Faculty Show
French Photographs by Edouard Boubat & Robert Doisneau
October 18 – November 1985

Modernism in America: 1937 – 1941
Portraits from the College Art Collection
August 25 – November 17, 1985

Color Nature Landscapes II, A Photographic Portfolio
June 1, 1985 – November 17, 1985

Selections from the Collection of the Alex Hillman Family Foundation
April 24 – August 11, 1985

19th Century German Drawings from the Frederick & Lucy S. Herman Foundation
April 24 – May 4, 1985

20th Century American Printmakers from the Whitney Museum of American Art
March 3 – May 4, 1985

Radiant Spirit: Medieval Church Art from the Walters Art Gallery
March 1 – April 15, 1985

Michael Singer: Ritual Series 1982
Pine & Rocks
January 25 – March 18, 1985

Gene Davis: Child & Man Collaboration
January 11 – February 25, 1985

Kashmir & Rajasthan Photographs by Ragubir Singh
October 18, 1984 – January 1, 1985

Into the Melting Pot: The Immigration of American Modernism (1909 – 1929)
October 8, 1984 – January 10, 1985

Spirit & Ritual: Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Morse Collection
Norman Goodwin: Recent Works
August 13, 1984 – October 7, 1985

Contemporary American Drawings from the Frederick & Lucy S. Herman Foundation
June 18 – July 26, 1984

In Search of Light: Spanish Painters from 1850 – 1950
May 11 – July 9, 1984

Drawings by Bill Berry
April 27 – June 11, 1984

Late 20th Century Art from the Sydney & Frances Lewis Foundation
Februrary 4 – April 30, 1984

Selections to Furnish the President’s House
December 17, 1983 – January 31, 1984

Form, Function, & Finesse: Drawings from the Frederick & Lucy Herman Foundation
October 21 – December 21, 1983

William & Mary Collects
October 21 – January 20, 1983