Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian Institution

1995 Presidential Scholars Installation

This exhibition features art by high school students selected as 1995 Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts.

June 2, 1995 – June 20, 1995

American Art Museum

Chicago Artists: Koffler Collection

See 12 works by Chicago artists from the Samuel W. Koffler collection.

February 10, 1995 – May 21, 1995

American Art Museum

Free Within Ourselves: African American Art from the National Museum of American Art

Visit paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photos, and folk art by 94 African Americans.

October 28, 1994 – February 26, 1995

American Art Museum

Works by Jesse Trevino: New York, Vietnam, San Antonio

This exhibition features 9 paintings and drawings by this photorealistic painter.

September 16, 1994 – January 8, 1995

American Art Museum

Man on Fire: Luis Jimenez

View 41 sculptures and graphics that highlight the themes this Mexican-American artist has captured in his work.

September 16, 1994 – January 2, 1995

American Art Museum

North American Wildflowers: Watercolors by Mary Vaux Walcott

Admire 50 original watercolors from North American Wildflowers published in 1925 by the Smithsonian Institution, that represent a fraction of the over 700 watercolors Walcott created.

April 15, 1994 – August 29, 1994

American Art Museum

Capital View: A New Washington Panorama by Mark Klett

Take in a 360-degree panorama of Washington, D.C., photographed by Mark Klett from the Tower of the Old Post Office Building from September 1992 through April 1993.

April 15, 1994 – August 14, 1994

American Art Museum

Thomas Cole: Landscape Into History

This major retrospective of 70 paintings by a major Hudson River School painter looks at the man behind the art and the society that fueled his imagination.

March 18, 1994 – August 7, 1994

American Art Museum

1994 Presidential Scholars Exhibition

On view are artistic works and written passages by high school students selected as 1994 Presidential Scholars in Visual Arts and Writing.

June 10, 1994 – July 4, 1994

American Art Museum

A New Angle on Familiar Places

On view are photos by 100 finalists from an area-wide competition of high school students.

May 15, 1994 – May 22, 1994

American Art Museum

On Location: Landscapes and Cityscapes in American Photography from the Museum's Collection

This exhibition features works from Ansel Adams Parmelian Prints of the High Sierra 5" portfolio and other land- and cityscape views by photographers such as Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston, and Frank Gohlke.

December 17, 1993 – April 3, 1994

American Art Museum

Earthly Constellation: Photographs by Linda Connor

Admire 45 black-and-white photos from the late 1970s to today that depict spiritual artifacts and landscapes worldwide, including Nepal, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Hawaii, and the American Southwest. M

December 17, 1993 – March 20, 1994

American Art Museum

The Arvin Gottlieb Collection: Paintings from the American Southwest

This exhibition features major painters of southwestern landscapes and Indian and Hispanic life such as Kenneth Adams, Oscar Berninghaus, Joseph Henry Sharp, Ernest Martin Hennings, and B.J.O. Nordfelt.

September 24, 1993 – March 20, 1994

American Art Museum

1994 Staff Exhibition

This annual exhibition features works of art by staff members from National Museum of American Art, National Portrait Gallery, and Archives of American Art.

February 8, 1994 – February 28, 1994

American Art Museum

Jasper Johns: Love and Death

Visit a select group of drawings, paintings, and lithographs by this 20th-century artist, ranging from his charcoal and pastel drawing Painting with Two Balls (1960), to his series Tantric I, II, and III (1980-81).

October 22, 1993 – February 20, 1994

American Art Museum

Jacob Kainen

This major retrospective exhibition covers Kainen's work from the 1950s and 1960s.

September 10, 1993 – January 2, 1994

American Art Museum

Pueblo Indian Watercolors

See 43 watercolors in the style of the San Ildefonso Pueblo dating from 1917 through the 40s.

September 24, 1993 – November 29, 1993

American Art Museum

Prints and Drawings from New Mexico

View works by various artists from New Mexico whose works helped shape today's public perceptions of the region.

September 24, 1993 – November 29, 1993

American Art Museum

Paul Cadmus

A selection of 10 works by the artist is on view from the museum's permanent collection. This mini-retrospective includes the controversial 1934 painting The Fleet's In!

October 9, 1992 – October 10, 1993

American Art Museum

American Art at the 1893 World's Fair

Approximately 100 of the more than 1,000 artworks originally exhibited in Chicago in 1893 at the Fine Arts Palace are exhibited by the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery in conjunction with the Columbus Quincentenary.

April 16, 1993 – August 15, 1993

American Art Museum

American Impressions: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections

View 60 paintings and sculptures selected from the private collections of the museum's American Art Forum members.

March 27, 1993 – July 5, 1993

American Art Museum

Hannalore Baron

Presented are 3 collages by the German-born, Jewish survivor of the Holocaust as homage to the opening of the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum.

April 18, 1993 – June 30, 1993

American Art Museum

1993 Presidential Scholars

This exhibition consists of art by high school students selected as 1993 Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts and passages written by 1993 Presidential Scholars in Writing.

June 14, 1993 – June 25, 1993

American Art Museum

Figure and Fantasy: The Miniature World of David Beck

Enjoy a fun and witty installation of animated musical objects created by this San Francisco artist.

February 19, 1993 – March 29, 1993

American Art Museum

Vision & Revision: The Hand-colored Prints of Wayne Thiebaud

Explore the role of the unique hand-colored print in contemporary printmaking in 70 works by Thiebaud.

November 20, 1992 – February 15, 1993

American Art Museum