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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 Lillian 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