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Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist
Nov. 26, 1979-Jan. 6, 1980
Prints/Multiples by Robert Rauschenberg
Dec. 18, 1979-Jan. 13, 1980
Emergence and Progression: Six Contemporary American Artists
Jan. 15-Mar. 2, 1980
Virginia Designers 1980
Jan. 15-Feb. 24, 1980
New Clay Forms
Jan. 25-Mar. 2, 1980
Paintings and Drawings by John Dos Passos
Feb. 26-Apr. 6, 1980
Eight
Mar. 6-Apr. 6, 1980
Collectors’ Choice
Mar. 11-Apr. 6, 1980
Five Years of Collecting
Mar. 25-May 4, 1980
Lee Kelly Drawings and Maquettes
Apr. 10-Apr. 27, 1980
Visions of Man
[Apr. 10]-Apr. 27, 1980
Ancient Portraiture: The Sculptor’s Art in Coins and Marble
Apr. 29-Jul. 20, 1980
’40-‘80
May 8-Jun. 1, 1980
Virginia Photographers 1980
May 13-Jun. 15, 1980
SITE: Buildings and Spaces
Jun. 9-Aug. 10, 1980
Decorative Fabricators
Jun. 16-Jul. 6, 1980
Henri-Cartier Bresson: Photographer
Jun. 24-Aug. 10, 1980
Landscape in Photography
Jun. 24-Aug. 24, 1980
Dick Cossitt: A Memorial Retrospective
Jul. 12-27, 1980
Kimberly Spangler/Yoji Matsumura
Aug. 2-17, 1980
The Jefferson Hotel: Photographs by Sue Dayton
Aug. 25-Sep. 14, 1980
Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
Sep. 8-Oct. 19, 1980
On Paper
Sep. 18-Oct. 12, 1980
Contemporary Urbicultural Documentation Project (CUD)
Oct. 22-Nov. 9, 1980
Virginia Artists’ Portfolio
Nov. 17-Dec. 31, 1980
Mitchell Kriegman: Telephone Stories and Videotapes
Nov. 17-Dec. 31, 1980
Virginia Craftsmen 1980
Nov. 17-Dec. 21, 1980
Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest
Nov. 17, 1980-Jan. 4, 1981
Rubin Peacock/New Sculpture
Nov. 24-Dec. 31, 1980
Collector of the Year: Masterpieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection
Jan. 11, 1981-
Susan Iverson/John Hawthorne
Jan. 12-Feb. 15, 1981
[Selections from Two Francisco Goya Print Sets]
[Jan. 26, 1981]
Edvard Munch and the Female Paradigm
Jan. 30-Mar. 14, 1981
Virginia Prints and Drawings 1981
Feb. 18-Mar. 22, 1981
Contemporary Prints from the Virginia Museum Collection
Feb. 24-Apr. 5, 1981
Masterworks: European and American Art at the Virginia Museum
Feb. 24, 1981-
Five from the Valley
Apr. 13-May 22, 1981
Mary Cassatt: Graphic Art
May 7-Jun. 21, 1981
The Influence of Japanese Prints on Cassatt’s Graphic Work
May 7-Jun. 21, 1981
A New Bestiary: Animal Imagery in Contemporary Art
Jun. 1-Aug. 16, 1981
Romare Bearden: 1970-1980
Jun. 29-Aug. 9, 1981
Art in Our Time: HHK Foundation for Contemporary Art, Inc.
Aug. 31-Oct. 11, 1981
Virginia Painting and Sculpture 1981
Aug. 31-Oct. 11, 1981
Jackie Winsor: 1967-78
Aug. 31-Oct. 11, 1981
Seldom Seen: Works from the Permanent Collection
[Oct. 3, 1981-Jan. 1982]
Hiroshige: The Tokaido Road
[Oct. 17, 1981]
Bruce Schnabel: Collaborations
Oct. 26-Dec. 7, 1981
Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert, and Boucher
Nov. 9-Dec. 27, 1981
Collectors’ Choice
Nov. 17-Dec. 13, 1981
Sidney Goodman: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints
Dec. 15, 1981-Jan. 24, 1982
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960
Feb. 2-Mar. 28, 1982
Constructed Paintings
Feb. 2-Mar. 14, 1982
Collectors of the Year: Holly and Arthur Magill
Feb. 16-Mar. 7, 1982
Vito Acconci
Mar. 23-May 2, 1982
Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd
Apr. 12-May 23, 1982
100 Years of Navajo Rugs
[Apr. 17, 1982]
The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia
May 11-Aug. 8, 1982
Antiquity Discovered: Classical Themes in Eighteenth-Century Prints
May 11-Aug. 8, 1982
Myron Helfgott
May 11-Jun. 27, 1982
20 Sculptors
Jun. 1-Aug. 31, 1982
Matter-Memory-Meaning
Jul. 6-Aug. 17, 1982
[Whistler Etchings]
[Jul. 31-Sep., 1982]
American Abstraction Now
Sep. 1-Oct. 3, 1982
La Bella Mano: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and the Decorative Arts
Sep. 13-Oct. 24, 1982
The Pinhole Image: Eleven Photographers
Oct 12-Nov 28, 1982
Cy Twombly: Works on Paper, 1954-1976
Nov. 22, 1982-Jan. 2, 1983
Neil Welliver: Paintings, 1966-1980
Nov. 22, 1982-Jan. 9, 1983
The Expressive Anecdote: Directions in Figurative Art
Dec. 8, 1982-Jan. 9, 1983
Videoworks: William Wegman
Jan. 18-Feb. 6, 1983
Videoworks II: A Selection
Feb. 8-20, 1983
Faberge: Selections from the Forbes Magazine Collection
Feb. 8-Mar. 13, 1983
Three Approaches to Realism
Mar. 8-Apr. 24, 1983
Experts’ Choice: The Seventh International Exhibition Presented by C.I.N.O.A.
Apr. 22-Jun. 12, 1983
Image Innovations: The Europeans
May 10-Jun. 12, 1983
Recent Acquisitions: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Garry Winogrand
Jun. 1-Jul. 31, 1983
The Next Juried Show
Jul. 16-Aug. 24, 1983
Painting in the South, 1564-1980
Sep. 13-Nov. 27, 1983
Frances Benjamin Johnston: A Southern Sensibility
Sep. 13-Nov. 27, 1983
Mark Catesby: A Southern Naturalist
Sep. 13-Nov. 27, 1983
Sculpture Now: Recent Figurative Works
Oct. 11-Nov. 13, 1983
Wealth of the Ancient World
Oct. 17-Dec. 11, 1983
Impressions I: Experimental Prints
Nov. 29, 1983-Jan. 15, 1984
Impressions II: Experiments in Paper
Nov. 29, 1983-Jan. 15, 1984
Paintings from the Royal Academy: Two Centuries of British Art
Jan. 16-Feb. 26, 1984
Painters: Six Emerging Artists
Feb. 3-Mar. 11, 1984
Nicholas Africano/Paintings, 1976-1983
Mar. 27-Apr. 29, 1984
The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1797-1863
Apr. 2-May 27, 1984
Construction Works
May 15-Jun. 10, 1984
David True: Paintings 1977-1984
Sep. 11-Oct. 7, 1984
East Village Artists
Oct. 22-Nov. 18, 1984
A Share of Honour: Virginia Women 1600-1945
Nov. 8, 1984-Jan. 9, 1985
Jewelry USA
Dec. 3, 1984-Jan. 6, 1985
Large Figurative Drawings
Jan. 21-Feb. 17, 1985
Weavers, Merchants, and Kings: The Inscribed Rugs of Armenia
Feb. 19-Mar. 1, 1985
Oriental Rugs from the Fisher Collection
Feb. 19-Apr. 10, 1985
Susan Rothenberg
Feb. 25-Mar. 27, 1985
British Watercolors: Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art
Apr. 29-Jun. 9, 1985
The Second Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Virginia
May 2-17, 1985
Ezekiel’s Vision: Moses Jacob Ezekiel and the Classical Tradition
May 16-Jul. 7, 1985
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Nov. 21, 1985-Jan. 26, 1986
Art Nouveau Jewelry by Rene Lalique
Jan. 18-Mar. 16, 1986
19th- and 20th-Century Masters from the Collection of Marion and Gustave Ring
Jan. 18-Mar. 16, 1986
Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Thaw
Jan. 18-Mar. 16, 1986
Installations: Ephemeris (Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel) and Pi (Chuck Henry)
Feb. 17-Mar. 30, 1986
Susanne K. Arnold: Buried Voices/Italy
Apr. 14-May 25, 1986
Edward Weston and Clarence John Laughlin: An Introduction to the Third World of Photography
Apr. 22-Jun. 1, 1986
Pieces of Virginia
May 1-Jun. 8, 1986
Albert Paley: The Art of Metal
May 27-Jul. 20, 1986
Process/Image/Portrait: Recent Sculpture by Myron Helfgott, Elizabeth King, and Genna Watson
Jun. 9-Jul. 20, 1986
Liberties with Liberty
[Jun. 23]-Aug. 31, 1986
Ebla to Damascus: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria
Jul. 14-Sep. 14, 1986
Patrice Kehoe: Recent Paintings
Aug. 4-Sep. 21, 1986
The Paris Style 1900: Art Nouveau Bing
Sep. 15-Nov. 23, 1986
Mimmo Paladino: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, 1982-86
Sep. 30-Nov. 9, 1986
Robert Capa: A Retrospective 1931-1954
Nov. 20, 1986-Jan. 25, 1987
Spiritual Impact: The Paintings of Edward Knippers
Nov. 24, 1986-Jan. 25, 1987
German Expressionist Art: Selections from the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection
Jan. 12-Mar. 8, 1987
Old Russian Enamels: Nationalism and the Decorative Arts Revival in 19th-Century Moscow
Jan. 15-Mar. 8, 1987
Doug Hall, ‘The Plains of San Agustin’
Jan. 22-Mar. 1, 1987
Mary Lucier, ‘Wilderness’
Jan. 22-Mar. 1, 1987
Perspectives: Angles on African Art
Feb. 21-Apr. 26, 1987
Recent Graphics from American Print Shops
Mar. 17-May 10, 1987
Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
Apr. 20-Jun. 14, 1987
Gold Boxes from the Gilbert Collection
Apr. 28-Jun. 21, 1987
Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection
May 13-Aug. 2, 1987
Ray Kass: Recent Paintings
May 26-Jul. 5, 1987
Contemplating the American Watercolor: Selections from the Transco Energy Company Collection
Jun. 23-Aug. 16, 1987
Portrait: Faces of the ‘80s
Jul. 20-Sep. 13, 1987
Authority and Ornament: Art of the Sepik River
Aug. 10-Oct. 4, 1987
13 Prints by One/Off
Aug. 31-Oct. 4, 1987
Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, The ‘50s & ‘60s
Oct. 4-Dec. 6, 1987
Visions of Man: The R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award Sculptures
Oct. 16-Dec. 16, 1987
Fine Arts & Flowers
Oct. 26-28, 1987
Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections
Nov. 9, 1987-Jan. 10, 1988
Drawings for the Stage by Leslie Cheek, Jr.
Dec. 4, 1987-Jan. 3, 1988
Un/Common Ground: Virginia Artists 1988
Jan. 12-Mar. 6, 1988
Master European Drawings from the Musee Atger
Feb. 16-Mar. 20, 1988
Virginia Youth Exhibition
Mar. 8-Apr. 3, 1988
Surimono from the Chester Beatty Collection
Mar. 28-May 8, 1988
Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America from the Collections of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Apr. 12-May 22, 1988
A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women
Apr. 25-Jun. 12, 1988
Glory of the Page: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the University of Glasgow
Library
Jun. 13-Aug. 14, 1988
Architectural Drawings by Richmond Architects: Carneal & Johnson
Jul. 19-Aug. 21, 1988
Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical
Aug. 9-Oct. 2, 1988
Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections
Sep. 20-Oct. 30, 1988
John Cage: “New River” Watercolors
Oct. 24-Nov. 27, 1988
Views from Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists, 1300-1912
Dec. 5, 1988-Jan. 15, 1989
Awards in the Visual Arts 7
Dec. 12, 1988-Jan. 29, 1989
Collecting Photographs: Selected Acquisitions Since 1980
Jan. 17-Mar. 12, 1989
NAMES Quilt
Jan. 24-Feb. 5, 1989
Winslow Homer’s Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years
Feb. 14-Apr. 2, 1989
1989 Virginia Youth Art Exhibition
Mar. 5-Apr. 9, 1989
Tom Czarnopys: Recent Sculpture
Mar. 13-Apr. 30, 1989
Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America
Mar. 27-May 21, 1989
The Burghers of Calais
Apr. 22, 1989-[Jan. 1990]
Lucas Samaras: Objects and Subjects, 1969-1986
Jun. 12-Aug. 13, 1989
The Eloquent Object
Jun. 26-Aug. 30, 1989
Sounding Forms: African Musical Instruments
Jul. 16-Sep. 10, 1989
Robert Jessup: Recent Paintings
Sep. 18-Oct. 29, 1989
Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation
Oct. 2-Dec. 10, 1989
Fashion and Style: Small Sculptures of the Art Deco Period
Oct. 10-Nov. 26, 1989
Prints by Marie Laurencin from the Collection of St. Catharine’s School
Oct. 11-Dec. 10, 1989
Fine Arts & Flowers
Oct. 23-25, 1989
Three on Technology: New Photographs by Robert Cumming, Lee Friedlander, and Jan Groover
Oct. 24-Dec. 10, 1989
Paul Outerbridge, a Singular Aesthetic: Photographs and Drawings, 1921-1941
Oct. 24-Dec. 10, 1989
Robert Yarber Paintings: 1980-1988
Nov. 20-Dec. 31, 1989