Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian Institution

Recent Acquisitions (1992)

Visit portraits of notable Americans--selected from the images recently acquired during the past few years by the National Portrait Gallery--include Buckminster Fuller, John Singleton Copley, Fiorello LaGuardia, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, and Boris Karloff.

July 16, 1992 – December 14, 1992

Portrait Gallery

An Eye on the Past: Photographs of Washington's Historical Landmarks

See 25 large format images photographed by architectural photographer Carol M. Highsmith that capture the rich beauty and diversity of the District's architecture.

November 1, 1992 – December 13, 1992

Anacostia Community Museum

Arts of Mughal India

These 20 paintings and 6 objects from the late 16th to the 18th century introduce the history of India's Islamic Mughal empire.

May 24, 1992 – December 6, 1992

Asian Art Museum, East Building

Directions: Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Animal Farm

See a 9 x 40-foot mural with animated caricatures of world leaders in a barnyard created by artist-teacher Tim Rollins.

September 17, 1992 – December 6, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraits from the Hosokawa Family

Family portraits from the 14th to the 19th centuries and significant associative objects document this family's important role in Japanese history.

July 24, 1992 – November 29, 1992

Portrait Gallery

Ancient Japan

Visit 250 objects in stone, clay, wood, bone, lacquer, bronze, and gold--dating from as early as 200,000 B.C. through the 7th century A.D.--that present the evolution of early Japanese culture and provide insight into the status of archeology in Japan today.

August 9, 1992 – November 1, 1992

Asian Art Museum, East Building

To Achieve These Rights: The Struggle for Equality and Self Determination in D.C. 1791-1978

Celebrate the bicentennial of the District of Columbia in this exhibition that examines the African American journey toward racial equality in the nation's capital.

January 19, 1992 – November 1, 1992

Anacostia Community Museum

Who's Gonna Sing Our Song

See 25 photographs by students from the Johnson Jr. High School that document the Anacostia community.

October 3, 1992 – October 28, 1992

Anacostia Community Museum

Nomads and Nobility: Art of the Ancient Near East

View over 100 gold, silver, other metalware, and ivory objects from the Sackler gift, including many silver vessels such as animal-shaped rhytons and silver-and-gilt pouring vessels, or ewers.

September 28, 1987 – October 26, 1992

Asian Art Museum, East Building

Behind Bars

Photographs by Grace L. Wojda portray prison life at the Lebanon Correctional Institution.

August 4, 1992 – October 25, 1992

American History Museum

Fringe of the Diaspora: The Jews of Wyoming

A photo essay by Penny Wolin documents the experience of the Jewish community in Wyoming.

August 4, 1992 – October 25, 1992

American History Museum

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: An American Visionary

Approximately 100 photographic works focus on the bizarre and mysterious that Meatyard experienced in everyday life in Lexington, Kentucky.

July 17, 1992 – October 18, 1992

American Art Museum

Helen Levitt

Approximately 85 photographs of children, games, graffiti, and chalk drawings created from the 1930s through the 1980s by one of the major masters of American 20th-century photography are complemented by a 16-minute film, by the artist, titled In the Street.

July 17, 1992 – October 18, 1992

American Art Museum

Images and Inspirations: Oral Histories of Our People

Students from Duke Ellington School of the Arts explore oral histories of the role models in their lives.

September 4, 1992 – October 2, 1992

American History Museum

Diverse Concepts

View watercolors, oils, and mixed-media collage by artists from communities east of the Anacostia River that are featured in this exhibition organized by Tomorrow's World Art Center of Washington, D.C.

August 9, 1992 – September 27, 1992

Anacostia Community Museum

World's Fairs

Illustrating the impact of world's fairs on modern life, this exhibit covers fairs from London's mid-19th-century Crystal Palace through fairs and expositions in Paris, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and others up to 1940.

February 12, 1992 – September 26, 1992

American History Museum

Frank Stella: Prints from the Collection

Some 20 abstract prints created by American artist Frank Stella between 1967 and 1970 incorporate striped, shaped, or geometric motifs are on view.

April 17, 1992 – September 20, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Weaving a Mayan Heritage: Clothing by Juana Cavanaugh

Discover traditional vestments handmade by Juana Cavanaugh, an Ixil Indian from Guatemala.

March 18, 1992 – September 14, 1992

American Indian Museum New York

Psychology: Understanding Ourselves, Understanding Each Other

Visit over 30 hands-on exhibits and activities addressing every day psychological processes. These exhibits explore thinking, problem solving, remembering, forgetting, feelings, communication, growing up, and growing older.

May 18, 1992 – September 9, 1992

Arts and Industries Building

White House Model

Featured is a 16 ft. by 60 ft. model, complete with White House wings, lawn, miniature televisions, and moveable guards.

February 10, 1992 – September 7, 1992

American History Museum

Between Man and the Gods: Sacrifice and Ceremony on a Cast Metal Ring

See a centuries-old cast metal ring from the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria that provides historic and iconographic evidence for interpretation.

February 5, 1992 – September 7, 1992

African Art Museum

The All-American Horse: Paintings of G. Harvey

See 30 of G. Harvey's more recent paintings that comprise a tribute to the horse and its role in the conquest and settlement of America.

December 6, 1991 – September 7, 1992

Natural History Museum

Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers

See 90 paintings, dating from 1910-1950, focusing on the innovative works of Diego Rivera, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Wifredo Lam, and Matta.

June 11, 1992 – September 7, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Peoples of the Luzon Mountains: Philippine Photographs by Eduardo Masferre

See a selection of Eduardo Masferre's black-and-white photographs of the mountain people of Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines.

May 1, 1992 – September 7, 1992

Natural History Museum

The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource

Celebrate the museum with an exhibition of approximately 1,200 objects including drawings, prints, textiles, wall coverings, furniture, ceramics, glass, jewelry, rare books, and metalwork.

March 26, 1991 – August 30, 1992

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum