Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian Institution

Images of Women in India

See textiles, fans, jewelry, a statue of a goddess, and a musical instrument traditionally played by women in India.

February 1, 1982 – April 5, 1982

City Dwellings and Country Houses: Robert Adam and His Style

View more than 100 original drawings, as well as furniture and silver created by Robert Adam, Scottish architect/designer and his circle.

January 19, 1982 – April 11, 1982

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Orchid Paintings by Regina Hughes

Enjoy 37 watercolor paintings of orchids from the National Orchid Collection and from private collections.

February 13, 1982 – April 11, 1982

Natural History Museum

Deep Ocean Photography

Explore a two-mile-high volcanic seamount deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean through 24 black-and-white photographic murals.

January 22, 1982 – April 13, 1982

Natural History Museum

Vanishing Race and Other Illusions: A New Look at the Work of Edward Curtis

Edward Curtis has long been considered the leading documentary photographer of the North American Indian. While acknowledging his contribution to art photography, this exhibition offers new evidence that Curtis presented a highly romanticized view of the American Indian in the early 20th century.

March 4, 1982 – April 15, 1982

Natural History Museum

Steuben: Secret Aid for the Americans

This exhibition commemorates the 250th birthday of Baron Von Steuben, hero of the American Revolution.

December 12, 1981 – April 18, 1982

American History Museum

"Pink Gesture" (Glass Vessel)

Admire collaborating artists Margie Jervis and Susie Krasnican's fused successive layers of colored enamel on their sculptural glass vessel, enhancing the medium's ability to reflect color and light.

March 5, 1982 – April 25, 1982

Renwick Gallery

The Inedible Renwick Birthday Cakes

Commemorate the Renwick's 10th anniversary with the icon of all birthdays--the cake--executed in stuffed fabric, porcelain, crochet cotton, earthenware, steel, neon, and glass.

January 29, 1982 – April 25, 1982

Renwick Gallery

American Icon: The 18th-Century Image of George Washington in Prints and Illustrations

View a variety of portrayals ranging from crude relief cuts to fine mezzotint portraits executed by Washington's contemporaries.

February 22, 1982 – April 27, 1982

Portrait Gallery

1982 Friends of the National Zoo Photography Contest

See 50 photographs--winners and other entries in the annual competition sponsored by the Friends of the National Zoo.

April 1, 1982 – April 30, 1982

National Zoo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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