Past Exhibitions

Alphonse Mucha, JOB, 1896, color lithograph on cream wove paper

Featured above: Alphonse Mucha, JOB, 1896, color lithograph on cream wove paper, Gift of Dr. Lawrence M. Epstein and Ms. Jeanne Griffin, 2007.174, from Leisure, Pleasure, and the Debut of the Modern French Woman, May – September 2011.

2023

Watercolors Unboxed Jume 10 – September 10, 2023
Frontiers of Impressionism April 1 – June 25, 2023

2022

The Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Bancroft Collection November 26, 2022 – March 5, 2023
Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum June 18, 2022 – January 8, 2023
Fathom: The Art of Kat O'Connor July 16 – October 16, 2022
Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity February 19 – June 19, 2022

2021

Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London November 13, 2021 – March 13, 2022
What the Nazis Stole from Richard Neumann (and the search to get it back) April 10, 2021 – January 17, 2022
The Iconic Jersey: Baseball x Fashion June 12 – September 12, 2021
The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design February 6 – May 2, 2021

2020

Women of WAM October 28, 2020 – September 5, 2021
Nature Imagined by Susan Swinand October 1, 2020 – Feburary 7, 2021
Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere February 15 – November 8, 2020

2019

Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman November 16, 2019 – February 16, 2020
With Child: Otto Dix / Carmen Winant September 21 – December 15, 2019
Travels with Hiroshige February 23 – May 26, 2019
Monet's Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process January 25 – April 28, 2019

2018

Preserved Pages: Book as Art in Persia and India, 1300–1800 October 13, 2018 – January 6, 2019
The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society September 8 – November 25, 2018
Radiance Rediscovered: Stained Glass by Tiffany and La Farge June 30, 2018 – December 1, 2019
Exploring the Myths of James Dye April 7 – September 2, 2018
The Mystery of Worcester's Leonardo March 10 – June 3, 2018
Dangerous Liaisons Revisited January 20 – April 22, 2018

2017

Last Defense: The Genius of Japanese Meiji Metalwork September 13, 2017 – September 2, 2018
Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard October 14, 2017 – February 25, 2018
Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England November 11, 2017 – February 4, 2018
Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang June 24 – November 12, 2017
John O'Reilly: A Studio Odyssey May 13 – August 13, 2017
Jeppson Idea Lab: Master Vases from Ancient Greece April 5, 2017 – August 11, 2019
Highest Heaven:
Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Collection of Roberta and Richard Huber
March 11 – July 9, 2017

2016

KAHBAHBLOOOM:
The Art and Storytelling of Ed Emberley
November 2016 – April 2017
Picket Fence to Picket Line:
Visions of American Citizenship
October 2016 – February 2017
THE BEAUTY OF TYRANNY October – December 2016
Facing the World:
Modernization and Splendor in Meiji Japan
September 2016 – April 2017
Blood and Honey June – November 2016
Meow: A Cat-Inspired Exhibition May – September 2016
Jeppson Idea Lab: The Art of Combat May – September 2016
The Last Judgment Tapestry April – September 2016
Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period January – April 2016

2015

Nature Unfolded: Korean Art from the Collection December 2015 – April 2016
Jeppson Idea Lab: Olmec Incised Standing Figure November 2015 – April 2016
Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars November 2015 – March 2016
Pierre Bonnard, Dining Room in the Country October 2015 – June 2016
Static Variations: Blue x 2 by Terri Priest October 2015 – January 2016
Veiled Aleppo September 2015 – June 2016
The Baskets of Hayakawa Shokosai III August – December 2015
American Folk Art, Lovingly Collected July – November 2015
Nagasawa Rosetsu, Bamboo May – August 2015
Samurai! April – September 2015
Jeppson Idea Lab:
Portrait of a Man by Anthony van Dyck
March – October 2015
Uncanny Japan: The Art of Yoshitoshi February – May 2015
Raphael: The Cowper Madonna January – September 2015
A Screen for the New Year: Pines and Plum Blossoms January – May 2015

2014

Africa's Children of Arms November 2014 – September 2015
Norman Rockwell November 2014 – February 2015
Polly Apfelbaum – Nevermind: Works from the 90s October 2014 – March 2015
KNIGHTS! September 2014 – November 2016
Perfectly Strange September 2014 – January 2015
Rembrandt and Steen: Loans from the Leiden Gallery August 2014 – August 2015
Jeppson Idea Lab: Portraits by William Hogarth July 2014 – February 2015
Abstractions in Blue: Works from the Wise Collection June 2014 – January 2015
KNIGHTS! March 2014 – November 2016
Guns without Borders in Mexico and Central America March – November 2014
New acquisitions (photos by LaToya Ruby Frazier) through July 2014
“Majicolor” Prints by Majima Ryoichi February 2014 – November 2014
Jeppson Idea Lab: Michael Benson January – June 2014

2013

You Are Here December 2013 – August 2014
Works in Process: from Proof to Print December 2013 – April 2014
Chinese Personal Adornments September 2013 – February 2014
Five Works by Three Generations
of Yoshida Family Artist
August 2013 – January 2014
Winogrand's Women Are Beautiful August – November 2013
Orantes: Ancient Statues from South Italy June – December 2013
Looking West and Looking East
Landscape Prints by Yoshida Tōshi (1911-95)
June – November 2013
Nancy Spero: Cri du Coeur May – October 2013
Portrait Photographs of Artists May – July 2013
The Allure of Blanc de Chine February – August 2013
Silent Gardens The "White-line" Print Series
by Yoshida Tōshi (1911-95)
January – July 2013
Charline von Heyl November 2010 – March 2013

2012

Bostonians in Miniature
Portraits and Lives, 1810-1835
December 2012 – September 1, 2013
Looking at the Stars
Prints by Imamura Yoshio (Japanese, b. 1948)
December 2012 – May 2013
Prints by Georges Rouault December 2012 – March 2013
Jill Slosburg-Ackerman – In Rome: The Pine Grove. And. Natura naturans; natura naturata. November 2012 – March 2013
20th Century American Drawings October – December 2012
Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation September 2012 —June 2013
Spotlight on Maki Haku (1924-2000) July 2012 – January 2013
Pilgrimage to Hokusai's Waterfalls May – November 2012
Small Porcelain Luxuries from China March – August 2012
Carrie Moyer: Interstellar February – August 2012
Eight Views of the Ryūkyū Islands February – July 2012

2011

Ladies of the House
Portrait Miniatures of Women from the Permanent Collection
December 2011 – May 2012
In Search of Julien Hudson:
Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans
December 2011 – May 2012
Hymn to the Earth: Photographs by Ron Rosenstock December 2011 – July 2012
Rest Elsewhere: Netherlandish Mannerist Prints October – December 2011
More Than Face Value
Non-Traditional Subjects in American Miniature Painting
June – November 2011
The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux April – October 2011
Leisure, Pleasure, and the Debut of the Modern French Woman May – September 2011

2010

Dandies November 2010 – May 2011
Goya and the Bullfight December 18, 2010 – April 17, 2011
Édouard Manet's The Dead Toreador September 25, 2010 – March 20, 2011
Place as Idea October 9, 2010 – February 20, 2011
Portrait Photographs August 21 – November 28, 2010
Minimalism: Logic Structure in the Graphic Arts April 10 – July 11, 2010
Selections from Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present March 7 – May 30, 2010

2009

What Matters December 19, 2009 – August 22, 2010
Twelve Zodiacal Animals July 11, 2009 – May 30, 2010
A Miniature Milestone: The Marianne E. Gibson Portrait Miniature Gallery at 20 December 2, 2009 – April 8, 2010
Intaglio: Italian Etchings and Engravings November 21, 2009 – March 7, 2010
Bound by Fashion: The Corset in European Art September 16, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Printmaking Methods | Relief June 27 – October 18, 2009
Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object April 18 – October 11, 2009
Spies Like Us! Nathan Hale and Major André June 5 – September 20, 2009
Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes March 28 – May 24, 2009

2008

Wall at WAM: “Actions Speak,” THINK AGAIN (David John Attyah and S.A. Bachman) October 30, 2008 – October 17, 2010
Heavenly and Earthly Delights: An exhibition in two parts May 10, 2008 – June 7, 2009
Watercolor—Bodycolor December 20, 2008 – March 1, 2009
Human Nature(s) November 15, 2008 – February 15, 2009
Sepia Memories: Nineteenth-Century Photographs August 30 – November 30, 2008
Wall at WAM: Alexander Ross March 22, 2007 – September 2008
Two Chinas: Chen Qiulin and Yun-Fei Ji March 8 – September 21, 2008
Inky Tributaries: Contemporary Chinese Prints May 10 Through August 3, 2008

2007

Textile Heirlooms of the Indus Valley September 14, 2007 – May 11, 2008
An American Vision: Treasures from the Winterthur Museum November 4, 2007 – April 6, 2008
Abstract Expressionist Prints December 22, 2007 – March 30, 2008
Paragons of Fashion: Early Nineteenth Century Japanese Woodblock Prints of Beauties September 15, 2007 – March 2, 2008
Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home September 22, 2007 – January 13, 2008
Printmaking Methods/Stencil September 8 – November 25, 2007
Random Sketches from Here and There: Gouache Drawings by Gustave Baumann April 28 – July 29, 2007
Ed Ruscha/Raymond Pettibon: The Holy Bible and THE END April 7 — May 27, 2007

2006

Mountain Harvests: Chinese Jades and Other Treasured Stones March 4, 2006 – June 17, 2007
La Belle Epoque: Works on Paper, 1885-1915 December 16, 2006 – March 18, 2007
Wall at WAM: Jim Hodges “Don't Be Afraid” April 16, 2004 – Spring 2007
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child (in context) October 21, 2006 – February 25, 2007
Mi Puerto Rico: Master Painters of the Island, 1780-1952 October 8, 2006 – January 14, 2007
Horrors of War September 9, 2006 – November 26, 2006
Surrealist Works on Paper May 6 – August 19, 2006
David Thorpe: A Meeting of Friends April 7 – August 13, 2006
Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968—1993 March 26 – June 25, 2006

2005

New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography December 17, 2005 – April 15, 2006
Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time November 13, 2005 – February 12, 2006
Pillar-Print Masterpieces: Narrow Glimpses into Japanese Life, Legends, and Literature August 27, 2005 – January 21, 2006
AFTERBURN—Willie Cole: Selected Works, 1997-2004 November 13, 2005 – January 7, 2006
Egyptomania: Modern Fascination for and Ancient Civilization September 17 – November 27, 2005
Hope and Healing:Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague April 3 – September 25, 2005
Jodie Manasevit: Just Painting May 13 – August 21, 2005
Printmaking Methods/Lithography April 30 – July 31, 2005
Evoking Rasa in Luminous Visions: Indian Art from the Herwitz Collection February 26 – July 17, 2005

2004

Lily van der Stokker November 18, 2004 – April 3, 2005
Rococo: French 18th-Century Prints December 19, 2004 – March 20, 2005
Modern Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection August 6, 2004 – January 23, 2005
Photography at the Worcester Art Museum: Keeping Shadows October 10, 2004 – January 2, 2005
Japanese Masters of Mezzotint: Yozo Hamaguchi and Katsunori Hamanishi September 6 – November 28, 2004
How Sculptors See April 8 – October 10, 2004
An American Impressionist: Joseph H. Greenwood March 6 – August 8, 2004
Birds in Japanese Art and Poetry February 21 – July 16, 2004
Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings October 4 – June 27, 2004
Wall at WAM: Julian Opie April 2002 – March 2004
Glexis Novoa October 18, 2003 – February 22, 2004

2003

Printmaking Methods: Etching December 20, 2003 – February 8, 2004
A Gift of Light: Photographs in the Janos Scholz Collection September 6 – November 30, 2003
Richard Yarde: Ringshout June 7 – September 21, 2003
English Color Prints May 17 – August 10, 2003
Samurai Spirit April 4 – June 22, 2003
Ambreen Butt March 1 – May 11, 2003
Flora in Winter February 6-9, 2003

2002

The Harlem Renaissance and It's LegacyJanuary 18, 2002 – April 13, 2003
Mask or Mirror? A Play of PortraitsOctober 6, 2002 – January 26, 2003
Norman Bluhm DrawingsOctober 19 – December 22, 2002
Printmaking Methods/EngravingJune 8 – September 15, 2002
Tony Feher: Maybe/EnjoyApril 26 – August 11, 2002
Weegee's World: Life, Death, and the Human DramaApril 5 – June 2, 2002
Collective Images: The Sketchbooks of John Steuart CurryFebruary 23 – May 5, 2002
Staged! Contemporary Photography by Gregory Crewdson, Rosemary Laing, and Sharon LockhartDecember 15, 2001 – March 24, 2002

2001

Dressing Up: Photographs of Style and FashionNovember 10, 2001 – January 20, 2002
Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art MuseumOctober 7, 2001 – January 6, 2002
Lewis deSotoSeptember 1 – November 18, 2001
In Color: Recent Acquisitions of American PrintsJuly 28 – October 7, 2001
Jennifer ReevesApril 28 – August 5, 2001
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist PrintsApril 22 – June 17, 2001
Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final YearsApril 1 – June 10, 2001
Denise Marika: UnearthedApril 5 – June 3, 2001
Paul Revere: Artisan and PatriotApril 17, 2000 – April 22, 2001
Chuck CloseDecember 9, 2000 – March 25, 2001
Wall at WAM – Annette Lemieux “Two Vistas” January 19, 2000 – March 1, 2001
Fresh Woods and Pastures New:
17th-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings from the Peck Collection
December 16, 2000 – February 25, 2001
Antioch: The Lost Ancient CityOctober 8, 2000 – February 4, 2001

2000

Insight: Photographs from the George Eastman HouseSeptember 16 – November 16, 2000
Painting Pushed to ExtremesJuly 15, 2000 – November 12, 2000
Face to Face: Artists and Their WorkJuly 15, 2000 – September 3, 2000
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an EraMay 6, 2000 – July 2, 2000
Blowup: Recent Sculpture and Drawings by Heide FasnachtApril 2, 2000 – June 11, 2000
Robert Capa: PhotographsApril 2, 2000 – June 5, 2000
Pissarro and Other Masters:
The Stoddard Legacy
February 19, 2000 – April 17, 2000
Outlook: Collecting the ContemporarySeptember 25, 1999 – February 20, 2000
Hiroshige: 53 Stations on the TokaidoOctober 30, 1999 – January 16, 2000
Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art NouveauOctober 16, 1999 – January 2, 2000
Worcester's Community MosaicSeptember 16, 2000 – Ongoing

Pre-2000

Terrific Tokyo: A Panorama of PrintsApril 17 – July 4, 1999
All that is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River SchoolMarch 13 – June 27, 1999
Urban VisionsFebruary 27 – May 2, 1999
A New England Home: Prints by Currier & IvesNovember 1, 1998 – January 3, 1999
My Favorite Work of Art ExhibitionNovember 22, 1997 – December 31, 1998
Previous Wall ProjectJuly 1, 1998 – December 31, 1998
Building and Form: Ansel Adams & ArchitectureAugust 15 – October 18, 1998
Master & Remarkable DrawingsApril 18 – June 21, 1998
European Color Prints: 1500-1900April 11 – June 14, 1998
Tape Art MuralApril 15 – May 10, 1998
Winslow Homer: By Land and By SeaJanuary 25 – March 22, 1998
American ImpressionismOctober 5, 1997 – January 4, 1998