Exhibitions - Worcester Art Museum

Featured Past Exhibitions


Year 2007 Exhibition Archive
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

Year 2006 Exhibition Archive
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
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

Year 2005 Exhibition Archive
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

Year 2004 Exhibition Archive
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

Year 2003 Exhibition Archive
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

Year 2002 Exhibition Archive
The Harlem Renaissance and It's Legacy   January 18, 2002 - April 13, 2003
Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits   October 6, 2002 - January 26, 2003
Norman Bluhm Drawings   October 19 - December 22, 2002
Printmaking Methods/Engraving   June 8 - September 15, 2002
Tony Feher: Maybe/Enjoy   April 26 - August 11, 2002
Weegee's World: Life, Death, and the Human Drama   April 5 - June 2, 2002
Collective Images: The Sketchbooks of John Steuart Curry   February 23 - May 5, 2002
Staged! Contemporary Photography by Gregory Crewdson, Rosemary Laing, and Sharon Lockhart   December 15, 2001 - March 24, 2002

Year 2001 Exhibition Archive
Dressing Up: Photographs of Style and Fashion   November 10, 2001 - January 20, 2002
Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum   October 7, 2001 - January 6, 2002
Lewis deSoto   September 1 - November 18, 2001
In Color: Recent Acquisitions of American Prints   July 28 - October 7, 2001
Jennifer Reeves   April 28 - August 5, 2001
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints   April 22 - June 17, 2001
Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years   April 1 - June 10, 2001
Denise Marika: Unearthed   April 5 - June 3, 2001
Paul Revere: Artisan and Patriot   April 17, 2000 - April 22, 2001
Chuck Close   December 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 City   October 8, 2000 - February 4, 2001

Year 2000 Exhibition Archive
Insight: Photographs from the George Eastman House   September 16 - November 16, 2000
Painting Pushed to Extremes   July 15, 2000 - November 12, 2000
Face to Face: Artists and Their Work   July 15, 2000 - September 3, 2000
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era   May 6, 2000 - July 2, 2000
Blowup: Recent Sculpture and Drawings by Heide Fasnacht   April 2, 2000 - June 11, 2000
Robert Capa: Photographs   April 2, 2000 - June 5, 2000
Pissarro and Other Masters:
The Stoddard Legacy
  February 19, 2000 - April 17, 2000
Outlook: Collecting the Contemporary   September 25, 1999 - February 20, 2000
Hiroshige: 53 Stations on the Tokaido   October 30, 1999 - January 16, 2000
Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau   October 16, 1999 - January 2, 2000
Worcester's Community Mosaic   September 16, 2000 - Ongoing

Pre-2000 Past Exhibitions
Terrific Tokyo: A Panorama of Prints   April 17 - July 4, 1999
All that is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School   March 13 - June 27, 1999
Urban Visions   February 27 - May 2, 1999
A New England Home: Prints by Currier & Ives   November 1, 1998 - January 3, 1999
My Favorite Work of Art Exhibition   November 22, 1997 - December 31, 1998
Previous Wall Project   July 1, 1998 - December 31, 1998
Building and Form: Ansel Adams & Architecture   August 15 - October 18, 1998
Master & Remarkable Drawings   April 18 - June 21, 1998
European Color Prints: 1500-1900   April 11 - June 14, 1998
Tape Art Mural   April 15 - May 10, 1998
Winslow Homer: By Land and By Sea   January 25 - March 22, 1998
American Impressionism   October 5, 1997 - January 4, 1998