Past Exhibitions

Threadworks: Miniature Textile Art

Admire 47 contemporary examples of miniature fiber art works that incorporate a variety of techniques.

November 21, 1988 – April 11, 1989

Ripley Center

Horizons: Paintings and Drawings by Robert Taylor

See 50 oil paintings and numerous pencil studies by this contemporary British artist whose work captures the role of Britain in the air battles of World War II, along with other events in British aviation and naval history.

April 28, 1988 – April 2, 1989

Air and Space Museum

Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska

Jointly prepared by the Smithsonian and the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the exhibition presents the cultures of Alaska and Siberia from the end of the Ice Age Era to modern times.

September 23, 1988 – April 2, 1989

Natural History Museum

Commerce and Conflict: The English in Virginia, 1625

This exhibition examines tobacco production along the James River in Virginia by 17th-century English settlers and its effects on the area's American Indian population.

April 30, 1988 – March 31, 1989

Coyote: A Myth in the Making

Visit a 10-year retrospective of "Coyote" art by American Indian artist Henry Fonseca.

December 21, 1988 – March 21, 1989

Natural History Museum

A Sense of Place

This photographic exhibition, a 6-year study of the land and people of Iowa, serves as a record of the changes and continuity of rural life in America.

January 15, 1989 – March 8, 1989

Anacostia Community Museum

D.C. Art Association | Inspiration: 1961-1989

A retrospective of artwork by the District of Columbia Art Association, from its founding in 1961 by art educators in the Washington, D.C. to the present.

January 15, 1989 – March 5, 1989

Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum: Training the Hand and Eye

View 75 drawings, watercolors, and oil sketches--many of them never before exhibited--from the museum's collection of more than 7,000 drawings.

January 24, 1989 – March 5, 1989

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Purses, Pockets, Pouches

Admire an exhibition that illustrates the textile techniques used to make purses, pockets, portfolios, and pouches, all drawn from the museum's collections.

December 6, 1988 – March 5, 1989

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Recent Acquisition: Beauford Delaney: "Can Fire in the Park"

See a colorful yet somber painting depicts an urban scene of men in a park at night standing around a trashcan fire.

March 1, 1989 – March 3, 1989

Lasers

This exhibition documents the activities of the Laser History Project. Barely 25 years old, it has had an enormous impact on all areas of society.

November 17, 1988 – March 1, 1989

Imperishable Beauty: Pictures Printed in Collotype

Explore the history of the collotype printing process from 1870 to 1960, and its importance in the development of communication technologies.

January 1, 1988 – February 28, 1989

William Hawkins: "Food Bar"

Visit an enamel-on-panel painting called Food Bar (1980) by the self-taught Afro-American artist.

February 1, 1989 – February 28, 1989

Featured Object: Sterling Silver Beverage Pitcher by Frederick A. Miller

Admire a sterling silver beverage pitcher made by American metalsmith Frederick A. Miller.

January 3, 1989 – February 28, 1989

Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray

This major retrospective includes 268 paintings, works on paper, photographs, rayographs, films, and objects by Ray, considered one of the founding fathers of modernism and a pioneer of both Dada and Surrealism.

December 2, 1988 – February 20, 1989

Featured Object: "Oval Chamber" by William Daley

See a large stoneware ceramic piece by the artist, a principal figure in contemporary American ceramics.

November 1, 1988 – February 12, 1989

Stephen de Staebler: The Figure

See 32 clay and bronze works--standing or seated life-size male and female figures as well as torsos and fragments of figures--by the California artist.

October 21, 1988 – February 12, 1989

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Gerhard Richter

Visit 46 figurative and abstract paintings, 2 objects, and 1 installation piece by West German artist Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in his first North American retrospective.

December 14, 1988 – February 12, 1989

Hirshhorn Museum

Courts and Colonies: The William and Mary Style in Holland, England, and America

See some 250 works of art, architectural prints, drawings, furniture, ceramics, and silver from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the accession of William and Mary to the English throne.

November 15, 1988 – February 12, 1989

Sports Feelings: U.S./Soviet Sports Photography

The first joint effort of its kind, the exhibition features 120 photographs of sporting events focusing on the universality and humanity of sports.

November 16, 1988 – February 5, 1989

"There's No Business Like Show Business": Irving Berlin's Centennial

The exhibition commemorates the 100th birthday of the American composer, who during his career has written some 800 songs.

July 23, 1988 – January 31, 1989

Recent Acquisitions: McKendree Robbins Long: "Visions from 'The Book of Revelations'"

See a painting from the artist's Revelation series, which depicts Long's visionary response to passages from Revelations in the Bible's New Testament.

January 3, 1989 – January 31, 1989