Past Exhibitions

We've been presenting exhibitions since 1877. Information and images for many of these exhibitions is available here. Exhibitions are the result of research and partnerships and generate creative responses.

You can entry search terms below, click on a decade, or check out a random exhibition. All our collections records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

Past Exhibitions

Showing 24 Exhibitions

Carvings, Casts, & Replicas

Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from Europe & America in New England Collections
February 10 - April 23, 1995

Guise on Dolls

Signatures at an Exhibition
February 3 - April 9, 1995

Edo Culture II

Life in the Pleasure Quarters
December 16, 1994 - March 5, 1995

Patterns and Poetry

Noh Robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection
October 21, 1994 - January 22, 1995

Japonisme

The Influence of Japanese Art on the West
November 4, 1994 - January 22, 1995

Lifting as We Climb

A History of the African-American Church in Providence
November 18 - December 4, 1994

Recovering Histories

Aspects of Contemporary Art in Chile Since 1982
September 16 - October 30, 1994

If Insects Could Speak

Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Early Nineteenth Century
July 29 - September 11, 1994

From the Reserve I

Paintings of Quality from the Museum's Collection
April 9 - August 3, 1994