Past Exhibitions

Universal Postal Union Stamp Collection

Visit important portions of Ohio Legislator M. William Tyrrell's award-winning collection.

October 9, 1974 – November 30, 1974

Prints by M.C. Escher

Marvel at a selection of about 50 prints by the late Dutch printmaker from the Roosevelt Collection recently given to the Gallery.

September 1, 1974 – November 30, 1974

Gilbert Stuart "Lansdowne" Portraits

For the first time since they left his studio in 1796, see two full-length portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart displayed together side by side.

August 9, 1974 – November 30, 1974

Portrait of Walt Whitman

View Thomas Eakins' portrait of Walt Whitman, created to mark the publication of Whitman's celebrated collection of poems, Leaves of Grass.

October 1, 1974 – November 30, 1974

Made in Chicago

Visit nearly 100 contemporary paintings and sculptures by 12 artists associated with Chicago activity known as "imagist art."

October 31, 1974 – November 29, 1974

Venetian Drawings From American Collections

Enjoy about 120 drawings on loan from private and public collections of works ranging from the 15th to the 18th centuries, including such artists as Titian and Tintoretto.

September 29, 1974 – November 24, 1974

Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings

Visit an exhibition covering the span of his career as a sculptor and draughtsman through 14 ebony and lignum vitae wood sculptures and 58 drawings in ink, pencil and watercolor that make up the show.

September 13, 1974 – November 24, 1974

In the Minds and the Hearts of the People: Prologue to the American Revolution 1760-1774

The first of three NPG Bicentennial exhibitions dealing with the Revolution, this show includes 65 paintings, associative objects and documents, and is installed in galleries with Georgian architectural detailing.

June 14, 1974 – November 17, 1974

History of the Bathroom in America

Visit the 1st-floor men's and women's restrooms to see a display on the history of bathrooms in America.

February 1, 1974 – October 31, 1974

Popular Pleasures of Science

View a series of 18th and 19th century framed prints.

November 1, 1973 – October 31, 1974

Anacostia Community Museum

Contemporary Nigerian Art: Craftsmen from Oshogbo

See some 70 pieces of textiles and metal works, with about half being the sculptured figures and jewelry of Jinadu Oladepo. Tapestries, embroideries, appliques and batiks are included in the textiles.

July 26, 1974 – October 28, 1974

Renwick Gallery

The Message Makers

Examine the media --radio, television, newspaper and film--and, more specifically, the decision-making process utilized in the selection of a message, its impact on the lives of people in general and black people in particular.

August 11, 1974 – October 27, 1974

Portrait of Dean Acheson

See a portrait of Dean Acheson, painted by Gardner Cox, that is a replica of the artist's earlier work that hangs in the State Department building.

September 18, 1974 – October 20, 1974

It All Depends

This new permanent exhibition hall dramatizes the dependency man and all other living things have on one another for survival.

April 6, 1974 – October 1, 1974

Natural History Museum

Sailor's Folk Craft

See examples of scrimshaw and whale bone carving.

September 1, 1974 – September 30, 1974

Bride's Quilt - 1851

See information and photographs of women working in textile mills.

September 1, 1974 – September 30, 1974

The Howe Butterflies

See some 20 acrylics and watercolors of butterflies in natural settings by William Howe.

July 15, 1974 – September 30, 1974

Natural History Museum

20th Century Painting and Sculpture

See a new installation made up of works selected from the permanent collection and works on loan.

August 9, 1974 – September 29, 1974

African Art and Motion

Explore African art and its relation to African music and dance with more than 150 masks, sculptures, textiles, costumes, pieces of jewelry and furniture from sub-Saharan Africa on loan from the collection of Katherine Croyton White of Los Angeles.

September 1, 1974 – September 22, 1974

Abraham Lincoln: The White House Years

Mark the anniversary of the assassination of Lincoln through photographs, cartoons and other associative items show how he changed during the Civil War years.

April 14, 1974 – September 15, 1974

The Cicada

Hopefully coinciding with the local emergence of cicadas, an audio-visual, multi-screen presentation of the life of a cicada will be shown in a mini-theater.

July 1, 1974 – September 10, 1974

Natural History Museum

American Artists at Work

See 13 pencil and watercolor caricatures of artists of the 1930s by Aline Fruhauf, and 4 small bronze sculptures by Eugenie Gershoy.

August 1, 1974 – September 8, 1974

Tribute to Mark Tobey

In one of its major exhibitions of 1974, NCFA will honor 84-year-old Mark Tobey, "the grand old man of American painting".

June 7, 1974 – September 8, 1974