Exhibition History - 1990s
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American Painting from a Century of Collecting: The Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
Jan. 22-Mar. 4, 1990
Christopher Silliman: Recent Sculpture
Jan. 29-Mar. 11, 1990
Davi Det Hompson: Wax Paintings
Jan. 29-Mar. 11, 1990
The Consul Smith Collection, Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle: Raphael to Canaletto
Feb. 1-Apr. 22, 1990
Holy Image, Holy Space: Icons and Frescoes from Greece
Feb. 26-Apr. 29, 1990
1990 Virginia Youth Art Exhibition
Mar. 3-Apr. 1, 1990
“Marcel Duchamp’s Mother’s Potato-Masher” and Other Works of Art: A Gift of Best Products Co., Inc.
Apr. 3-May 13, 1990
Vanishing Presence
Apr. 23-Jun. 17, 1990
Collectors’ Circle Show: Landscapes
May 8-27, 1990
The Good Design Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
May 22-Jul 8, 1990
Robert Stackhouse Encounterings: Installation with Drawings
Jun. 4-Jul. 15, 1990
Furniture by Wendell Castle
Jun. 18-Aug. 19, 1990
Architectural Drawings by Charlottesville Architects: Browne, Eichman, Dalgliesh, Gilpin & Paxton
Jul. 17-Aug. 12, 1990
Harmony and Discord: American Landscape Painting Today
Aug. 7-Sep. 30, 1990
Romance of the Taj Mahal
Aug. 20-Nov. 25, 1990
Un/Common Ground: Virginia Artists 1990
Oct. 22-Dec. 16, 1990
American Photography: 1839-1900
Jan. 22-Mar. 3, 1991
Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art
Jan. 29-Mar. 24, 1991
1991 Virginia Youth Art Exhibition
Mar. 3-31, 1991
Gari Melchers: A Retrospective Exhibition
Apr. 8-Jun. 2, 1991
Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Apr. 16-May 12, 1991
Perspectives on the Permanent Collection: Robert Morris
Apr. 23-Jun. 2, 1991
The Art of Photography: 1991 National Society of Arts and Letters Juried Competition
Jun. 3-Jun. 30, 1991
Perspectives on the Permanent Collection: Contemporary Sculpture
Jun. 24-Aug. 11, 1991
At Home: American Art in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1700-1950
Jul. 2, 1991-Jun. 1, 1993
British and French Drawings and Watercolors in the Virginia Museum: The Douglas H. Gordon Collection
Aug. 20-Sep. 29, 1991
Alfredo Jaar: Geography=War
Sep. 6-Oct. 20, 1991
Fine Arts & Flowers
Oct. 22-24, 1991
Islamic Art & Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait
Nov. 5, 1991-Jan. 29, 1992
Masterpieces of American Painting from the Cincinnati Art Museum
Nov. 18, 1991-Jan. 5, 1992
Gifts to the Commonwealth: Art Purchase Endowments and Private Donations
Jan. 15-Apr. 12, 1992
Emmet Gowin: Photographs
Feb. 18-Apr. 12, 1992
1992 Virginia Youth Art Exhibition
Mar. 1-Apr. 5, 1992
Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection
Mar. 26-May 3, 1992
Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991
May 11-Jul. 12, 1992
Mystic Visions: The Virginia Museum’s Collection of Nepalese and Tibetan Art
Jul. 6-Dec. 27, 1992
Before the Iron Horse: A Selection of British Drawings and Prints from the Paul Mellon Collection
Sep. 8, 1992-May 30, 1993
Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Paintings: The Harold Samuel Collection
Oct. 9-Dec. 6, 1992
Bill Viola: Slowly Turning Narrative and Other Video Works
Oct. 30-Dec. 27, 1992
The Making of Virginia Architecture: Drawings and Models, 1719-1990
Nov. 8, 1992-Jan. 3, 1993
IN/SIGHT: Late 20th-Century Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Feb. 17, 1993-
Transformed Reality
Feb. 17-May 16, 1993
Late 20th-Century Works on Paper
Feb. 17-May 16, 1993
Focus Series-Jim Dine: Robes
Feb. 17-Jul. 11, 1993
Art of the Himalayas: Treasures from Nepal and Tibet
Mar. 2-Apr. 25, 1993
Athena and Her City: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens
May 10-Aug. 1, 1993
Cajun Music and Zydeco: Photographs by Philip Gould
Jul. 1-Aug. 15, 1993
Big Al Carter: Paintings and Works on Paper
Jul. 10-Sep. 19, 1993
Focus Series-Chuck Close: Portraits
Jul. 24-Oct. 31, 1993
Sir Thomas Lawrence: Portraits of an Age, 1790-1830
Aug. 2-Sep. 26, 1993
Perspective Series-Portraits in Europe: 1500-1850
Aug. 3-Nov. 7, 1993
George Catlin’s “Indian Gallery”: Views of the American West
Oct. 6, 1993-Jan. 30, 1994
Fine Arts & Flowers
Oct. 18-20, 1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection
Oct. 25, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994
Focus Series-Mark Rothko: The Late Years
Nov. 13, 1993-Mar. 13, 1994
Michiko Kon: Still Lives
Nov. 16, 1993-Jan. 23, 1994
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes and Theaters
Nov. 16, 1993-Jan. 23, 1994
Perspective Series-Recent Gifts: Building the Collections
Nov. 23, 1993-Jan. 23, 1994
A Passion for Color: Paintings and Pictorial Textiles from Rajasthan and Central India
Dec. 14, 1993-May 29, 1994
Secrecy: African Art That Conceals and Reveals
Jan. 31-Mar. 27, 1994
Perspective Series-Lost and Forgotten Meanings
Feb. 1-Jul. 3, 1994
Alison Saar: “Fertile Ground” and “Crossroads”
Feb. 17-May 15, 1994
This Sporting Life: Prints and Drawings from The Paul Mellon Collection
Mar. 1-Jul. 31, 1994
Focus Series-Andy Warhol: Early Portraits
Mar. 26-Sep. 25, 1994
Paintings from the Muslim Courts of India
Jun. 21, 1994-May 18, 1995
Falling in Love Again
Jul. 1-Sep. 4, 1994
Design for Living: Post-War Furniture from the Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Jul. 12-Sep. 25, 1994
Perspective Series-Art of the Ancient Americas: Body and Soul Transformed
Jul. 26, 1994-May 14, 1995
From Delacroix to Toulouse-Lautrec: French Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Aug. 23, 1994-Feb. 12, 1995
Spirit of the Motherland: African Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Sep. 23, 1994-Apr. 30, 1995
Focus Series-Philip Guston: Paintings of the ‘70s
Oct. 8, 1994-Feb. 5, 1995
My Point of View: Photographs by Moneta Sleet, Jr.
Oct. 20-Dec. 18, 1994
Designed to Sell: Turn-of-the-Century American Posters-The Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Nov. 7, 1994-Jan. 8, 1995
Repicturing Abstraction
Jan. 20-Mar. 19, 1995
Focus Series-Susan Rothenberg: The Head-and-Hand Paintings
Feb. 18-Jul. 2, 1995
America Around 1900: Impressionism, Realism, and Modern Life
Jun. 12-Sep. 17, 1995
“A-Hunting We Will Go”: British Sporting Drawings and Prints from the Collection of Paul Mellon
Oct. 3, 1995-Jul. 28, 1996
Indian Painting from the Punjab Hills
Oct. 17, 1995-Jun. 23, 1996
Fine Arts & Flowers
Oct. 25-27, 1995
American Arts and Crafts: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters
Nov. 14, 1995-Jan. 7, 1996
Un/Common Ground: Virginia Artists 1996
Mar. 1-May 12, 1996
1996 Virginia Youth Art Exhibition
Mar. 10-31, 1996
Muses: A Tribute to Mature Women Who Live Creative Lives
Apr. 12-Jun. 15, 1996
Splendors of an Age: Italian Paintings from Burghley House
May 30-Aug. 25, 1996
Material Presence: The Art of Beverly Semmes
Jun. 21-Sep. 8, 1996
A Sampler from India: Masterpieces of Painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
July 16, 1996-May 11, 1997
The Lilliam Thomas Pratt Collection of Faberge
Aug. 22-Nov. 10, 1996
Faberge in America
Aug. 22-Nov. 10, 1996
I Sing for the Animals: Animal Drawings and Prints from the Paul Mellon Collection
Oct. 1, 1996-Feb. 2, 1997
Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of Narrative Paintings
Nov. 15, 1996-Jan. 19, 1997
Picture This: New Photographs from the Collection
Mar. 7-May 25, 1997
Carrie Mae Weems: Africa Series
Mar. 7-May 25, 1997
Masterpieces in Little: Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
May 3-Jul 13, 1997
God, Hero, and Lover: Representations of Krishna in Indian Painting
Jun. 3, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998
Adornment for Eternity: Chinese Jewelry through the Ages
Aug. 11-Nov. 9, 1997
American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection
Sep. 18, 1997-Jan. 25, 1998
Fine Arts & Flowers
Oct. 20-22, 1997
William Blake: Illustrations of the Book of Job
Nov. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998
Hallowed Ground: Preserving America’s Heritage
Mar. 10-May 31, 1998
Cho Duck Hyun: Memories of the 20th Century
Mar. 12-May 17, 1998
From the Looms of India
Mar. 31, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999
India: A Celebration of Independence, 1947-1997
May 11-Jul. 26, 1998
Gabriele Munter: The Years of Expressionism, 1903-1920
Jul. 10-Sep. 20, 1998
A Passion for Prints: The Gertrude Weber Collection
Jul. 28-Nov. 29, 1998
Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts
Nov. 11, 1998-Jan. 31, 1999
Fiery Steeds: French Romantic Studies by Carle Vernet from the Ritzenberg Collection
Dec. 15, 1998-Mar. 14, 1999
Highlights of Late 20th-Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection
Feb. 27, 1999-Jan. 16, 2000
Splendors of Ancient Egypt
May 20-Nov. 28, 1999
God, Refuge, and Protector: Images of Vishnu
Jul. 6, 1999-Apr. 30, 2000