Past Exhibitions & Installations

Ethiopia at the Crossroads
December 03, 2023–March 03, 2024
New on the Bookshelf: Expanded Narratives
June 07, 2023–December 07, 2023
The Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition
July 19, 2023–September 03, 2023
Selections from Art of the Ancient Americas
February 28, 2023–August 27, 2023
Selections from the 19th-Century European and North American Collection
May 22, 2022–August 20, 2023
Quiet Beauty: The Watercolors of Léon Bonvin
February 15, 2023–August 13, 2023
Arts of the Medieval Mediterranean
December 18, 2022–June 16, 2023
Activating the Renaissance
April 14, 2022–February 26, 2023
The Janet and Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalists Exhibition
July 21, 2022–September 18, 2022
Majolica Mania
March 13, 2022–August 07, 2022
Recent Acquisitions: Expanding the Collection
November 25, 2020–February 07, 2022
Betty Cooke: The Circle and the Line
September 19, 2021–January 02, 2022
Translations and Transitions / Traducciones y Transiciones: A Celebration of Mexican and Central American Independence (1821–2021)
March 17, 2021–November 07, 2021
Excursions through the Collection
November 17, 2019–October 10, 2021
Building the Collection: 19th-Century European and American Art
September 07, 2020–September 16, 2021
The Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists Exhibition
May 27, 2021–July 18, 2021
The St. Francis Missal
February 01, 2020–January 31, 2021
From Mucha To Morris: Books of the Art Nouveau
October 02, 2019–April 19, 2020
Time and Place
July 31, 2019–March 01, 2020
Ceramics: Materials and Techniques
June 26, 2018–February 01, 2020
Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style
October 06, 2019–January 05, 2020
Paintings for a Venetian Palace
April 06, 2019–December 31, 2019
Transformation: Art of the Americas
October 27, 2018–October 06, 2019
The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists Exhibition
June 15, 2019–August 11, 2019
Animal Tales
May 18, 2019–August 11, 2019
Roberto Lugo at 1 West
June 16, 2018–July 15, 2019
The Return of the Buddha
September 30, 2018–May 12, 2019
Woven Words: Decoding the Silk Book
February 06, 2019–April 28, 2019
Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Art of Collaboration
September 30, 2018–January 06, 2019
Chinese Snuff Bottles
September 30, 2018–December 09, 2018
Crowning Glory: Art of the Americas
March 07, 2018–October 07, 2018
After Fabergé
November 12, 2017–June 24, 2018
Fabergé and the Russian Crafts Tradition: An Empire’s Legacy
November 12, 2017–June 24, 2018
Uncertain Times: Martin Luther’s Remedies for the Soul
August 06, 2017–October 29, 2017
Training the Eye: 19th-Century Drawing
May 14, 2017–August 13, 2017
Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize 2017 Finalists’ Exhibition
June 17, 2017–August 13, 2017
Ferocious Beauty: Wrathful Deities from Tibet and Nepal
November 13, 2016–April 23, 2017
A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe
October 16, 2016–January 08, 2017
From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story
October 26, 2014–October 14, 2016
Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling
June 25, 2016–September 18, 2016
Madame de Pompadour: Patron and Printmaker
February 28, 2016–May 29, 2016
A Renaissance Original: Carlo Crivelli
February 28, 2016–May 22, 2016
Gérôme and His Circle: Travel, Art, and Business in the Middle East
November 14, 2015–February 07, 2016
Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts
November 08, 2015–January 31, 2016
Gold of the Ancient Americas
May 09, 2015–October 11, 2015
Rinehart’s Studio: Rough Stone to Living Marble
March 29, 2015–August 30, 2015
From Pen to Press: Experimentation and Innovation in the Age of Print
November 22, 2014–April 12, 2015
Seeing Music in Medieval Manuscripts
June 28, 2014–October 12, 2014
The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize 2014 Finalists
June 21, 2014–August 17, 2014
American Artists Abroad
April 19, 2014–June 22, 2014
Bookbindings from the Gilded Age
October 26, 2013–May 18, 2014
Designed for Flowers: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
February 23, 2014–May 11, 2014
Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis Series
September 14, 2013–April 13, 2014
Egypt’s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum
October 06, 2013–January 05, 2014
Living by the Book: Monks, Nuns and Their Manuscripts
July 13, 2013–September 29, 2013
Site Unseen. Gregory Vershbow
July 06, 2013–September 08, 2013
The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists Exhibition
June 14, 2013–August 11, 2013
New Eyes on America: Student Response
March 16, 2013–June 09, 2013
New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville
March 10, 2013–June 02, 2013
Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue
March 02, 2013–May 26, 2013
Student Response Show: Facing Our Community
September 15, 2012–February 03, 2013
Diadem and Dagger: Jewish Silversmiths of Yemen
October 27, 2012–January 21, 2013
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
October 14, 2012–January 21, 2013
The Two Planets – Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
August 11, 2012–November 18, 2012
Paradise Imagined: The Garden in the Islamic and Christian World
June 30, 2012–September 23, 2012
Public Property
June 17, 2012–August 19, 2012
Hashiguchi Goyo’s Beautiful Women
May 19, 2012–August 12, 2012
Near Paris: The Watercolors of Léon Bonvin
February 25, 2012–May 20, 2012
Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift
February 12, 2012–May 20, 2012
Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture: Exploring the Appeal of Renaissance Statuettes
January 21, 2012–April 15, 2012
Thai Story: The Vessantara Jataka
October 29, 2011–January 22, 2012
Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes
October 16, 2011–January 01, 2012
Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey through Amnesia
September 17, 2011–December 11, 2011
The Art of the Writing Instrument from Paris to Persia
July 02, 2011–September 25, 2011
Setting Sail: Drawings of the Sea from the Walters’ Collection
June 18, 2011–September 11, 2011
Realistic Perfection: The Making of Oriental Ceramic Art
March 12, 2011–June 04, 2011
Relics and Reliquaries Reconsidered
February 26, 2011–May 22, 2011
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe
February 13, 2011–May 15, 2011
German Drawings from the Walters’ Collection
November 20, 2010–February 13, 2011
Beasts on Parchment: Picturing Animals in Medieval Manuscripts
November 06, 2010–February 06, 2011
Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic
September 19, 2010–January 02, 2011
Mummified
November 15, 2008–November 08, 2010
Great Illustrations: Drawings and Books from The Walters’ Collection
July 31, 2010–October 24, 2010
Checkmate! Medieval People at Play
July 17, 2010–October 10, 2010
Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry
May 08, 2010–August 01, 2010
Expanding Horizons: Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection
April 17, 2010–July 03, 2010
Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum
March 20, 2010–June 13, 2010
Japanese Cloisonné Enamels from the Stephen W. Fisher Collection
February 14, 2010–June 13, 2010
Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics
January 23, 2010–April 11, 2010
The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts
December 03, 2009–February 28, 2010
Art On Purpose: Heroes in Our Midst
September 16, 2009–January 03, 2010
Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
October 11, 2009–January 03, 2010
Desire. Destruction. Transcendence
October 31, 2009–December 13, 2009
Shrunken Treasures: Miniaturization in Books and Art
August 15, 2009–November 08, 2009
Herman Maril: An American Modernist
June 28, 2009–August 30, 2009
Rembrandt Peale’s Portrait of John Meer
March 04, 2009–August 23, 2009
Prayers in Code
April 25, 2009–July 19, 2009
The Saint John’s Bible
February 15, 2009–May 24, 2009
The Romance of the Rose
January 24, 2009–April 19, 2009
Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project
December 13, 2008–February 16, 2009
The Special Dead: A Medieval Reliquary Revealed
August 02, 2008–January 18, 2009
Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry
October 19, 2008–January 04, 2009
Autumn Colors
September 27, 2008–November 30, 2008
Salviati and the Antique
October 20, 2008–November 02, 2008
Sonya Clark: Loose Strands, Tight Knots
June 28, 2008–September 21, 2008
Faces of Ancient Arabia
July 20, 2008–September 07, 2008
Mapping the Cosmos
February 02, 2008–July 27, 2008
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
March 16, 2008–June 08, 2008
Maps on Purpose
March 01, 2008–June 08, 2008
The Repeating Image in Renaissance and Baroque Art
September 08, 2007–February 17, 2008
Recurrence
September 19, 2007–January 20, 2008
Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces
October 07, 2007–January 01, 2008
Daily Magic in Ancient Egypt
December 02, 2006–November 25, 2007
Ottoman Embroideries and Other Ornament
May 05, 2007–September 09, 2007
Linda Day Clark: The Gee’s Bend Photographs
June 15, 2007–September 02, 2007
Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
June 15, 2007–August 26, 2007
Floral Still Lifes from the Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff
March 29, 2007–June 10, 2007
Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye
February 11, 2007–May 06, 2007
Speaking the Word of God: Illuminated Korans from the Walters Art Museum
February 03, 2007–April 29, 2007
Courbet/Not Courbet
September 16, 2006–March 11, 2007
“For This Is My Body”: The Medieval Missal
November 04, 2006–January 28, 2007
Courbet and the Modern Landscape
October 15, 2006–January 07, 2007
Things with Wings
October 12, 2005–November 26, 2006
Schatzkammer: Henry Walters’ German Manuscripts
July 22, 2006–October 29, 2006
Alfred Jacob Miller and the Western Indians
June 24, 2006–September 10, 2006
Mightier Than the Sword: The Satirical Pen of KAL
June 18, 2006–September 03, 2006
Interpretation by Design: Contemporary Bookbindings by Stanley M. Sherman
April 15, 2006–July 16, 2006
Portrait Miniatures of the Napoleonic Era
June 16, 2006–June 25, 2006
Louise Bourgeois: Femme
February 11, 2006–May 21, 2006
The Art of Law
January 14, 2006–April 09, 2006
The Ashcan School
January 07, 2006–March 19, 2006
Sacred Arts and City Life
November 19, 2005–February 12, 2006
Dressed in Gold
October 15, 2005–January 08, 2006
The Walters American Collection
June 29, 2005–January 01, 2006
Carved for Immortality
November 06, 2004–October 02, 2005
The Closed Book
May 07, 2005–September 18, 2005
Pearls of the Parrot
June 19, 2005–September 11, 2005
The Essence of Line
June 19, 2005–September 11, 2005
Popular Prints from the French Revolution
February 12, 2005–June 19, 2005
Stubbs and the Horse
March 13, 2005–May 29, 2005
The Early History of the Bible: Transmission of Sacred Scripture from Ancient Times to the Age of Painting
January 22, 2005–May 01, 2005
The Road to Impressionism: Landscapes from Corot to Manet
October 03, 2004–January 17, 2005
Eureka! The Archimedes Palimpsest
June 01, 1999–September 05, 1999