Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian Institution

D.C. Art Association | Exhibition '78

Members of the District of Columbia Art Association display artwork, including sculptures and paintings in oil, watercolor, and acrylic. Student work from Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Wilkinson Elementary School is also on display.

September 15, 1978 – November 12, 1978

Anacostia Community Museum

Murals in the Round: Painted Tipis of the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache Indians

Imagine Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache life with 15 richly decorated deerskin model tipis created by Indian artists from 1891 to 1904 to document the tribes' full-sized homes.

December 2, 1977 – November 12, 1978

Renwick Gallery

Cross Currents

See 135 Neo-classical prints and drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt collections.

September 19, 1978 – November 5, 1978

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Sales Exhibition: Appalachian Crafts

Admire and purchase quilts, pine needle baskets, cornshuck dolls, brooms, wooden cradles and wooden trains, all made by craftsmen/members of the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild.

September 8, 1978 – October 31, 1978

Renwick Gallery

The Animal in Art

See the work of local artists, involved in assisting with the three Sunday "Sketch-Ins" at the zoo.

November 20, 1977 – October 31, 1978

National Zoo

William Cullen Bryant

Mark the 100th anniversary of Bryant's death with a small exhibition including a silver Tiffany vase commissioned by friends for his 80th birthday; an edition of the New York Evening Post, which he edited for 50 years; a bust by Henry Kirke Brown; and an oil portrait by Daniel Huntington.

June 12, 1978 – October 27, 1978

Portrait Gallery

Printed, Painted and Dyed: The New Fabric Surface

Enjoy 42 works by 31 craftsmen concerned with the embellishment of preconstructed fabric surfaces through photo-silkscreen and color xerography as well as batik, fold-dye, ikat, direct and resist dye.

July 4, 1978 – October 15, 1978

Renwick Gallery

Ronald Pearson: Silver and Gold

Take in a selection of Pearson's jewelry as well as a complete place-setting of a newly-designed flatware inspired by pieces from a John Quincy Adams service

April 28, 1978 – October 15, 1978

Renwick Gallery

Philip Evergood (1901-73): Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Visit 42 paintings, drawings and watercolors taken from the HMSG collection of 68 works by the American artist.

August 11, 1978 – October 8, 1978

Hirshhorn Museum

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy

During Better Hearing Month, explore the relationship between Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, through life masks, photographs, books and other memorabilia.

May 15, 1978 – October 8, 1978

Portrait Gallery

Form Follows Film

Visit a photographic exhibit, including stills of movie sets, which shows the movies as arbiter of taste in architecture and interior design.

August 15, 1978 – October 7, 1978

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Tropical Blossoms

See close-ups of unusual flowers from the world's jungles.

July 5, 1978 – September 30, 1978

Natural History Museum

Storrs L. Olson: Studies in Fossil Birds

See photographs of Dr. Olson at work in sites around the world -- Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Wyoming -- that serve as documentation for specimens in the exhibit.

July 15, 1978 – September 30, 1978

Natural History Museum

Henry Moore: The HMSG Collection

In celebration of Henry Moore's 80th birthday, HMSG presents a show of his works from its collection.

July 30, 1978 – September 22, 1978

Hirshhorn Museum

Instrument of the Lord (Harriet Beecher Stowe and her Great Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin)

Visit an in-depth study of the Civil War novelists and her greatest work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, including portraits, documents, the first American edition, artist's proofs and gifts to Stowe.

October 7, 1977 – September 17, 1978

Portrait Gallery

Looking at L.A., An Exhibition Organized by Environmental Communications

Visit a slide and video presentation of Los Angeles' life style.

July 18, 1978 – September 17, 1978

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Contemporary Art from Alaska

Enjoy the first survey of contemporary Alaskan art in the 'lower 48' with 57 paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings and sculpture

June 23, 1978 – September 17, 1978

American Art Museum

Recent Acquisitions

See about 55 prints and drawings selected from those acquired during the past two years.

May 5, 1978 – September 10, 1978

American Art Museum

Inner Dimension

Each of about 60 sea shells are presented both in color photographs of their exteriors and x-rays or radiographs of the internal structures.

July 15, 1978 – September 10, 1978

Natural History Museum

The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde

Through 79 works by 26 artists, this major exhibition recreates the essence of Quinn's art collection, considered the most important assembled in the U.S. prior to the Depression.

June 15, 1978 – September 4, 1978

Hirshhorn Museum

Past and Present: A Century and a Half of a National Collection

Examine the history of the NCFA and its expanding collection in this major exhibition of more than 200 works.

June 11, 1978 – September 4, 1978

American Art Museum

Embroidery through the Ages

See a two-part exhibition of 14th-20th century embroidered items from Europe.

June 6, 1978 – September 3, 1978

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Sales Exhibition: Dolls

Admire and purchase various type of handcrafted dolls and doll houses made by American craftsmen.

June 6, 1978 – August 31, 1978

Renwick Gallery

Phil Ratner's Washington

Artist and art teacher Phil Ratner creates drawings, sculptures, and portraits to honor his hometown of Washington, D.C. His students at Anacostia High School contribute drawings and a mural to the exhibition.

April 16, 1978 – August 27, 1978

Anacostia Community Museum

Buildings Reborn: New Uses, Old Places

Learn about the recycling of 53 buildings in American cities, including the Fine Arts/Portrait Gallery building and the Renwick Gallery, documented through photographs and models.

April 6, 1978 – August 19, 1978

Renwick Gallery