Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian Institution

Two Centuries of Japanese Ceramics, 1550-1750

Admire 45 examples of Japanese stoneware and porcelain selected to highlight important regional types developed between 1550-1750.

July 14, 1980 – June 30, 1982

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Near Eastern Ceramics

View a selection of ceramics, glass, and paintings, representing the cultural heritage of the Near East

May 15, 1981 – June 30, 1982

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Eastern Kufic Calligraphy

View 12 Koran pages from 10th to the 12th-century Iran.

May 15, 1981 – June 30, 1982

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Luminous Shadows

Visit a selection of ink paintings and ceramics representative of the kinds of objects collected by the Ashikaga Shoguns of the Muromachi period (1334-1573).

April 1, 1982 – June 30, 1982

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Japanese Genre Screens

Follow the daily lives of the Japanese people of the 17th- to mid-19th centuries through 6 pairs of screens on display.

February 1, 1981 – June 30, 1982

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Turkish Art

Delight in 30 objects on display -- manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, and jade, mostly from the 16th century, the height of the Ottoman Empire.

November 1, 1980 – June 30, 1982

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Heirs of De Stijl

View 14 works by artists influenced by De Stijl, including works by Bolotowski, Hepworth, and Stella.

April 20, 1982 – June 27, 1982

Hirshhorn Museum

Ascending Bowl #3

Visit a bowl, crafted from walnut by Mark Lindquist, whose emphasis on texture gives it a sense of motion.

May 1, 1982 – June 27, 1982

Renwick Gallery

De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia

This is the first major exhibition in nearly three decades of this influential Dutch movement. Identifying itself as "The Style" ("de Stijl" translated), it encompassed art, architecture, and design, and propounded a Utopian viewpoint in a magazine of the same title.

April 20, 1982 – June 27, 1982

Hirshhorn Museum

English Majolica

See approximately 75 examples of the brightly colored 19th-century English pottery.

March 23, 1982 – June 13, 1982

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

The Tarahumara

See 23 bronzes and 15 pastels of Mexico's Tarahumara people executed by George Carlson, an artist who spent his career portraying the Indians of western North America.

April 17, 1982 – June 13, 1982

Natural History Museum

American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920

Marvel at 73 monumental portraits by 51 artists selected to illustrate American portraiture in its most developed formal state.

March 19, 1982 – June 6, 1982

Portrait Gallery

Masks of the World

Admire and purchase masks of New Guinea, Java, Bolivia, Peru, and Native American cultures.

March 17, 1982 – May 31, 1982

Renwick Gallery

Winter into Spring: American Landscapes

Visit a group of 19 American landscapes by American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that includes oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels by Whistler, Dewing, Thayer, Tryon, Metcalf, and Charles Adams Platt, architect of the Freer.

March 1, 1982 – May 31, 1982

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Brazilian Feather Art

Over 300 masterpieces of feather art, representative of diverse tribes and techniques, are on loan from museums and private collectors in Brazil.

May 11, 1982 – May 31, 1982

Natural History Museum

Student Artists and the Space Shuttle

See 50 paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works by 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students from Washington, D.C., public schools that depict or relate to the Space Shuttle.

March 1, 1982 – May 30, 1982

Air and Space Museum

Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings and Watercolors

Visit approximately 55 works on paper including etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, drawings, and watercolors acquired during the past 2 years by gift, bequest or purchase.

February 8, 1980 – May 16, 1982

American Art Museum

Red Grooms from the Museum's Collection

Visit 8 works by the popular American artist, including 5 sculptures, a collage, and 2 paintings of New York scenes.

February 25, 1982 – May 16, 1982

Hirshhorn Museum

Dr. Ingersol Moten Johnson

Follow the path or Dr. Ingersol Johnson (1900-1981) a District of Columbia physiotherapist, chiropractor, and naturopath.

March 1, 1982 – May 12, 1982

American History Museum

American Bandstand (1952-1982)

Props from the set of the long-running TV program, including the original backdrop and podium, supplemented with photographs of featured performers and records from 30 years on the air.

March 1, 1982 – May 12, 1982

American History Museum

Architectural Fantasy and Reality

See 78 prize-winning entries for the annual design competitions of the National Academy of St. Luke in Rome, dating from the late 17th to the mid-18th centuries.

February 16, 1982 – May 9, 1982

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Hawaii: The Royal Isles

View more than 300 ethnographic and historic artifacts that present the richness and scope of Hawaiian culture.

March 9, 1982 – May 9, 1982

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Egypt: Day and Night, Watercolors by Keith Achepohl

Regard 35 highly stylized, abstract works by the Iowa artist, who gathered his impressions of Egypt while a visiting artist in 1977 and as a Fulbright lecturer in 1979.

February 12, 1982 – May 9, 1982

American Art Museum

The Changing American Farm, 1831-1981

This exhibit features four large pieces of machinery: an authentic 1837 John Deere plow, an early cottonseed planter, and two full-scale replicas: a Cyrus McCormick reaper and a John Froelich 1892 tractor (the first successful gas-operated tractor).

May 15, 1981 – May 5, 1982

American History Museum

Wonder Woman: Symbol of the 80s

Examine the comic book character, "Wonder Woman", through this exhibition.

March 11, 1982 – May 4, 1982

American History Museum