Past Exhibitions

Sales Exhibition: Rivercane Baskets

View 25 doubleweave contemporary baskets made by Eva Wolfe, a noted Cherokee basketweaver.

January 16, 1979 – February 28, 1979

American Color Woodcuts: The Years of Transition

View 65 works that survey the transformation of the color relief print in the U.S. Included is a Provincetown artists' froup of 1916-1920, which developed a method for printing multi-colors from a single block.

November 23, 1978 – February 25, 1979

Clay Figures from Guerrero

See 45 clay works that are shaped like animals and people; all, following tradition, have been molded by the women and then decorated by the men of San Augustin Oapan.

September 29, 1978 – February 19, 1979

New Stained Glass

View 35 objects that illustrate the use of new techniques for painting and etching glass to create works designed to be viewed as individual objects rather than windows in an architect's plan.

September 1, 1978 – February 19, 1979

Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art

Displayed in the British artist's first major American retrospective are 68 paintings and 14 works on paper.

December 21, 1978 – February 18, 1979

Brian Mason: Research on Meteorites Found in Antarctica

See a piece of the first meteorite found in Antarctica in 1912 as well as a fragment from the large 878-pound meteorite collected by a recent expedition.

January 1, 1979 – February 15, 1979

Jackson Pollock: New Found Works

Paintings, drawings and collages, many exhibited for the first time, are among the 105 works on view. Included are a complete series of early lithgraphs and pages from a newly-discovered sketchbook of 'psychoanalytic' drawings as well as bowls, copper placques and a mosiac.

December 22, 1978 – February 11, 1979

Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder

Visit a major exhibition of 350 works that presents a reevaluation of the landscapes, religious paintings, decorative arts and murals of Vedder (1836-1923).

October 13, 1978 – February 4, 1979

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes

See a major exhibit of daguerrotype portraits of 100 notable Americans drawn from gallery collections and on loan.

September 22, 1978 – February 4, 1979

Portrait Gallery

Vienna Moderne: An Exhibition of the Arts of the Vienna Workshops

Visit all types of decorative arts, paintings, graphics and architectural drawings, created by the "Vienna Secession", members of the Austrian turn-of-the-century art nouveau movement who questioned the validity of ornamentation.

November 21, 1978 – February 4, 1979

Jay Gould: Mephistopheles of Wall Street

See cartoon commentaries on the post-Civil War activities of the industrialist alongside a portrait by Eastman Johnson.

July 21, 1978 – February 4, 1979

Portrait Gallery

The Shopping Bag: Portable Graphic Art

Admire 100 20th-century shopping bags as well as rare examples of their 19th-century precursor, the bandbox.

December 9, 1978 – January 27, 1979

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Nature Images: Color Photographs of North American Flora and Fauna

See about 50 photographs taken by 4 area photographers: Heather Iler, Gable Ray, and the husband and wife team of Randall Sacilotto-Irene Hinke

November 1, 1978 – January 14, 1979

George Grosz: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

View 37 works by the German-born satirist: 16 watercolors, 17 drawings and 4 oils. This is the first public showing of HMSG's entire Grosz collection.

September 13, 1978 – January 14, 1979

Alan Sonfist/Trees

Examine the tree as a source for art, revelation and person fantasy through 30 works, combining photographs with canvas, charcoal, seeds, twigs and leaves.

October 27, 1978 – January 7, 1979

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Ornament in the Twentieth Century

See ornaments for the human body, objects of daily use, posters, packaging material, corporate logos and designer initials, and ornamental aspects of garden and plaza design.

October 3, 1978 – January 7, 1979

Louis M. Eilshemius: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

See 58 paintings and 27 drawings and watercolors from HMSG's collection of 250 Eilshemius works.

November 9, 1978 – January 1, 1979

Mission to Japan

See a recently acquired daguerrotype of Matthew Perry, a portrait by a Japanese artist, and 5 watercolors.

January 15, 1978 – December 31, 1978

Portrait Gallery

Climbers in an Indian Garden

Enjoy 60 watercolors of the vines of India, some of the most botanically interesting plants in the world, bu O.T. Ravindran.

November 1, 1978 – December 31, 1978

Victorian Christmas Tree

Visit a 12-foot spruce tree decorated by the Renwick's volunteer docents with cornucopias, angels, candles, small presents, recycled Christmas cards, natural and painted evergreen pods and pine cones.

December 12, 1978 – December 31, 1978

Sales Exhibition: Christmas for Men

Admire and purchase handcrafted objects from across the U.S. including leather briefcases and boxes, weathervanes, kaftans, pottery casseroles and bowls, walking sticks, umbrella stands, sweaters, deco boxes, backpacks, leather vests, cuff links and belt buckles.

November 3, 1978 – December 30, 1978

Sales Exhibition: Not for Children Only: Toys and Other Pastimes

Admire and purchase crafts for all ages--wooden and soft sculpture toys, adult games, puppets, dolls for children and doll caricatures for adults.

November 8, 1979 – December 15, 1978

Saul Steinberg

Visit a major retrospective which includes 178 drawings, watercolors, collages, masks and tables, dating from 1945 to the present.

October 4, 1978 – November 26, 1978

Washington Print Club: Member's Exhibition

Enjoy 58 prints selected from members' collections: woodcuts range from 16th century chiaroscuros to 20th century works by Edward Munch and Carol Summers and monotypes by Edgar Degas and Everett Shinn.

September 15, 1978 – November 19, 1978