Past Exhibitions

Energy Conservation: Everybody's Concern

Contributions of minorities and women are highlighted in the work of four individuals,as part of Energy Awareness Day, June 3, 1982.

June 1, 1982 – July 31, 1982

Engineering Structures in America

See approximately 50 photographs of infrastructure that demonstrate the contributions of American consulting engineers during the past 100 years.

November 16, 1981 – July 29, 1982

FDR: The Early Years

Understand the forces and personalities that shaped Franklin Delano Roosevelt's character, his ambitions, and his entrance into politics.

January 28, 1982 – July 25, 1982

Samuel Murray: The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden Collection

The HMSG collection of works by Samuel Murray (1870-1941), realist sculptor of the turn-of-the-century, and a close friend and disciple of Thomas Eakins, is shown for the first time.

May 20, 1982 – July 18, 1982

Hirshhorn Museum

Portrait Prints: The 20th-Century Approach

Follow the evolution of portrait prints during the 20th century through diversity of style, technique, and approach.

December 11, 1981 – July 18, 1982

Carl Schurz: America's Teutonic Reformer

See portraits, photographs, political cartoons, manuscripts, and memorabilia in a small exhibit that pays tribute to the German immigrant who became one of the United States' most influential reform leaders in the post-Civil War period.

January 15, 1982 – July 18, 1982

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

The American Landscape

Enjoy a selection of American landscapes by 19th- and 20th-century artists from the Cooper-Hewitt collection.

April 27, 1982 – July 18, 1982

George Washington's Last Will and Testament

For one day only see the actual Last Will and Testament of George Washington, on loan from the Clerk of Court, Fairfax County, Virginia.

July 9, 1982 – July 9, 1982

Art of the Mamluks in the Freer Collection

Enjoy 27 examples of bookbinding, metalwork, illuminations, paintings, and glass from 14th- and 15th-century Egypt and Syria.

May 15, 1981 – June 30, 1982

Japanese Genre Screens

Follow the daily lives of the Japanese people of the 17th- to mid-19th centuries through 6 pairs of screens on display.

February 1, 1981 – June 30, 1982

Eastern Kufic Calligraphy

View 12 Koran pages from 10th to the 12th-century Iran.

May 15, 1981 – June 30, 1982

Near Eastern Ceramics

View a selection of ceramics, glass, and paintings, representing the cultural heritage of the Near East

May 15, 1981 – June 30, 1982

Turkish Art

Delight in 30 objects on display -- manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, and jade, mostly from the 16th century, the height of the Ottoman Empire.

November 1, 1980 – June 30, 1982

Luminous Shadows

Visit a selection of ink paintings and ceramics representative of the kinds of objects collected by the Ashikaga Shoguns of the Muromachi period (1334-1573).

April 1, 1982 – June 30, 1982

Two Centuries of Japanese Ceramics, 1550-1750

Admire 45 examples of Japanese stoneware and porcelain selected to highlight important regional types developed between 1550-1750.

July 14, 1980 – June 30, 1982

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Heirs of De Stijl

View 14 works by artists influenced by De Stijl, including works by Bolotowski, Hepworth, and Stella.

April 20, 1982 – June 27, 1982

Hirshhorn Museum

Ascending Bowl #3

Visit a bowl, crafted from walnut by Mark Lindquist, whose emphasis on texture gives it a sense of motion.

May 1, 1982 – June 27, 1982

Renwick Gallery

De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia

This is the first major exhibition in nearly three decades of this influential Dutch movement. Identifying itself as "The Style" ("de Stijl" translated), it encompassed art, architecture, and design, and propounded a Utopian viewpoint in a magazine of the same title.

April 20, 1982 – June 27, 1982

Hirshhorn Museum

English Majolica

See approximately 75 examples of the brightly colored 19th-century English pottery.

March 23, 1982 – June 13, 1982

The Tarahumara

See 23 bronzes and 15 pastels of Mexico's Tarahumara people executed by George Carlson, an artist who spent his career portraying the Indians of western North America.

April 17, 1982 – June 13, 1982

Natural History Museum

American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920

Marvel at 73 monumental portraits by 51 artists selected to illustrate American portraiture in its most developed formal state.

March 19, 1982 – June 6, 1982

Winter into Spring: American Landscapes

Visit a group of 19 American landscapes by American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that includes oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels by Whistler, Dewing, Thayer, Tryon, Metcalf, and Charles Adams Platt, architect of the Freer.

March 1, 1982 – May 31, 1982