Past Exhibitions

Recent Gifts: Portraits (of Alexander Hamilton and Fisher Ames)

Enjoy 2 portraits presented by former Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and his son, Harvard professor George C. Lodge: Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull and Fisher Ames by Gilbert Stuart.

January 1, 1980 – May 1, 1983

Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Admire 54 drawings--in chalk, pastel, pencil and ink--created by Vedder for an 1884 English-language edition of the Persian's poetry.

April 16, 1982 – May 1, 1983

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Carnegie Mansion Embellishments

View approximately 150 fanciful modifications of a line drawing of the south facade of the Carnegie Mansion, home of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

February 8, 1983 – May 1, 1983

Francis Lee Jaques: Artist-Naturalist

Some 54 paintings in a retrospective exhibition document the life and work of Jaques, one of America's most talented wildlife artists and a pioneer in the creation of dioramas.

March 12, 1983 – April 24, 1983

Natural History Museum

Elizabeth Nourse, 1859-1938: A Salon Career

A reappraisal of the American expatriate is provided by the 104 works on view--portraits, domestic scenes, landscapes, and drawings.

January 14, 1983 – April 17, 1983

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Tiffany Studios: Metalwork and Other Decorative Arts

Admire approximately 75 works produced at the Tiffany Studios, highlighting Tiffany designs in bronze, silver, gold, enamel, copper, and other metals.

January 18, 1983 – April 17, 1983

The Workers' World: The Industrial Village and The Company Town

See graphics and some small objects that explain living and working conditions in two 19th-century environments.

December 10, 1982 – April 17, 1983

The Fall of Parity

See the Wu-Ambler apparatus, which in 1956 enabled physicists to show that, contrary to a previously accepted assumption, mirror symmetry does not hold for all physical processes, and thus, the mirror image of our world is distinguishable from the world itself.

April 3, 1982 – April 12, 1983

The Prints of Louis Lozowick

Enjoy 70 lithographs and wood engravings by the 20th-century American artist.

November 5, 1982 – April 10, 1983

Germans to America: 300 Years of Immigration 1683-1983

Examine the history and the reasons behind the immigration of the largest single nationality in the U.S. through some 50 panels of photographs.

March 23, 1983 – April 7, 1983

Smithsonian Castle

Ohio Designer Craftsmen

Admire and purchase decorative objects created by 26 artists; included are wood decoys, woven wire beads, enamel bowls and wall sculpture, glass scent bottles and paperweights, ceramic bowls, and gallery trays.

January 6, 1983 – April 3, 1983

Renwick Gallery

African Emblems of Status

This exhibition of 205 objects presents the variety of forms, materials and kinds of art objects created to identify, honor, and celebrate individuals of status and achievement.

October 27, 1982 – April 3, 1983

African Art Museum

Twenty-Five Years of Space Exploration

Trace developments of the space age placed against the background of social, cultural, and other events of the time through film, artifacts, photographs, and samples of news accounts.

July 1, 1982 – April 3, 1983

Air and Space Museum

Japanese Ceramics Today: Masterworks of the Kikuchi Collection

See over 300 masterpieces created by nearly 100 living Japanese ceramists, the largest and most important show of contemporary Japanese ceramics to come to the U.S.

February 11, 1983 – April 3, 1983

Natural History Museum

Heroes, Martyrs and Villains: Printed Portraits of the Civil War

View approximately 40 likenesses in an exhibition that illustrates how the patriotic printed portrait functioned as editorial, symbol, souvenir, and visual record.

September 10, 1982 – April 3, 1983

Animation, Walter Lantz and Woody Woodpecker

Admire the original art work from the first film in which Woody Woodpecker appeared, a 1942 "Andy Panda" cartoon.

November 1, 1982 – March 31, 1983

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Maritime Archaic Indians: Pioneers of the Labrador Coast

See tools and other artifacts highlighting the Maritime Archaic Indian cultures of the Labrador Coast and the work of Dr. William Fitzhugh, anthropologist.

August 17, 1982 – March 31, 1983

Natural History Museum

Japanese Screens

See 6 pairs of narrative screens, including those depicting The Tale of Genji and The Emperor Hsuan-tsung and His Consort. The screens date from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

March 1, 1983 – March 31, 1983

Hollywood Portrait Photographers 1921-1941

Delight in more than 110 photographs that document the art of the "golden era" of Hollywood portrait photographers.

February 3, 1983 – March 27, 1983

Speaking a New Classicism: American Architecture Now

Learn through drawings, reproductions of drawings, photographs, models, and mock-ups how leading American architects are making use of decorative motifs from classical architecture.

January 28, 1983 – March 27, 1983

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Chinese Painting of the Wu and Che Schools

View works representative of the mainstream of painting in the Ming dynasty during the 16th century. Both schools strongly influenced subsequent Chinese paintings.

February 1, 1983 – March 15, 1983

"The Eight" and the Independent Tradition in American Art

Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the legendary Eight exhibition, America's first organized assault on academic art.

January 13, 1983 – March 15, 1983

Hirshhorn Museum

Saints & Laborers: Folk Figures as American Ideals of Service

Folk figures crafted in the 19th and 20th centuries present evidence of the use of figurines as daily reminders to working people of the importance of their own labor to society.

December 1, 1982 – March 3, 1983