Exhibitions – 1980s

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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