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Displaying 25 of 5,257 exhibitions.

  • Drawings from the Collection

    View 48 works that suggest the scope of the museum's holdings, particularly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The works are also selected because, in some cases, they have rarely been shown, and yet they demonstrate the strength of American drawing.

    March 1, 1988 – September 25, 1988

    American Art Museum

  • Annual Reports

    Visit an exhibition featuring case studies over the past 100 years with 3 companies--Domino's Pizza, H.J. Heinz, and Potlatch Corp.

    July 5, 1988 – September 25, 1988

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Recent Acquisition: Hovering (Drawing by Philip Guston) Part of Drawings

    Philip Guston's provocative Hovering is a prime example of his representational paintings and drawings that shocked and dismayed the New York art world when they were first exhibited.

    September 1, 1988 – September 25, 1988

    American Art Museum

  • The Outdoor Chair

    Sit down and try out chairs created by 43 architects, landscape architects, furniture designers, interior designers, and artists from the San Francisco bay area.

    May 24, 1988 – September 18, 1988

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • QN—The Time Traveler

    Visit a life-sized, radio-controlled replica of a large prehistoric "creature," a pterodactyl-like craft resembling the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, whose 35-foot-plus fossil remains were found in Texas in the early 1970s.

    May 19, 1986 – September 15, 1988

    Air and Space Museum

  • Pottery Installation

    See 5 porcelain and stoneware works by various potters.

    April 22, 1988 – September 15, 1988

    Renwick Gallery

  • The "Incomparable" (Zale Diamond)

    Marvel at the 407.43-carat, gold-colored diamond, the largest fancy-colored diamond in the world. 

    August 1, 1988 – September 13, 1988

    Natural History Museum

  • Special Delivery: Murals for the New Deal Era (Post Office Mural Studies)

    Recall the "New Deal" through 70 paintings, drawings, and sculptures commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department as part of the Depression's social programs.

    January 15, 1988 – September 11, 1988

    American Art Museum

  • Images from Bamum: German Colonial Photography at the Court of King Njoya, Cameroon, West Africa

    See 60 photographs that portray life at the court of King Njoya (1902-1915), including Bamum festivals, palace architecture, and royal art as well as the royal family.

    June 15, 1988 – September 6, 1988

    African Art Museum

  • Near Eastern Art

    See paintings and objects in silver, wood, ivory, jade, brass, steel, ceramic, and glass from North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, India, and Turkey.

    November 15, 1986 – September 5, 1988

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Paintings by Thomas Wilmer Dewing

    Appreciate 19 paintings by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, an American artist best known for his graceful representations of women.

    April 1, 1986 – September 5, 1988

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • American Painting

    See 17 paintings by Whistler, Tryon, Dewing, and Sargent.

    November 3, 1986 – September 5, 1988

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Chinese Art

    See 12 of the Freer's finest paintings, including the 12th-century handscroll Wind and Snow in the Fir-Pine by Li Shan. Also on view is a selection of ceramics, bronzes, and lacquerware.

    March 15, 1987 – September 5, 1988

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • South and Southeast Asian Art

    View 11 sculptures in stone and bronze and 5 paintings representing Buddhist and Hindu gods.

    November 1, 1986 – September 5, 1988

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Creative Arts Council

    Admire and purchase a variety of crafts by Washington-area craftspeople.

    June 10, 1988 – September 5, 1988

    Renwick Gallery

  • Symbols and Images of American Labor

    Examine the relationship between different groups as expressed in the iconography of labor. 

    January 19, 1988 – September 5, 1988

    American History Museum

  • Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase

    Examine 3 traditional ceramic forms--plate, cup, vase--as they have been transformed into nonfunctional art works.

    April 22, 1988 – September 5, 1988

    Renwick Gallery

  • Featured Object (by Tom Patti) Bi-axial Tubated Green Riser

    Admire a diminutive, exquisitely conceived piece that is a superb example of the artist's use of glass.

    August 1, 1988 – September 5, 1988

    Renwick Gallery

  • Superman: Many Lives, Many Worlds

    The exhibition depicts the comic book superhero as a hero of popular culture, illustrated through various forms of the media from 1938 to the present.  

    June 24, 1987 – September 1, 1988

    American History Museum

  • Pavilions and Immortal Mountains: Chinese Decorative Art and Painting

    See over 200 jades, painting, lacquerware, and furniture from the Sackler gift, including Chinese paintings in three formats--hanging scrolls, handscrolls and album leaves--, and 16 articles of Chinese furniture from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.

    September 28, 1987 – August 31, 1988

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Composition Four: Melancholia (Painting by Raymond Jonson)

    Painted in 1926, two years after moving from Chicago to New Mexico, this is a pivotal work for Jonson, expressing emotional reactions to a particular time in his life, and is boldly nonrepresentational as well.

    August 3, 1988 – August 31, 1988

    American Art Museum

  • 100 Years of American Mathematics

    The exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the American Society of Mathematics and explores the aspects of the practice of mathematics in the U.S. in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.  

    May 1, 1988 – August 31, 1988

    American History Museum

  • The Fishes of the Mississippi River

    Visit the fishes of the Mississippi River - paddlefish, bowfin, short-nosed gar, shovel-nose sturgeon, large-mouth bass, sunfish, flat-head catfish, and others.

    June 1, 1987 – August 30, 1988

    National Zoo

  • Native American Flora

    Visit a wildflower collection commemorating the 75th birthday of Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady.

    May 1, 1988 – August 30, 1988

    Arts and Industries Building

  • Ceramics of the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933

    Enjoy approximately 100 examples of commercially made ceramics produced by German factories between the World Wars.

    June 14, 1988 – August 28, 1988

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

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