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A painting hanging on the wall showing a group of friends siting around a dinner table. Flames glow through the window, while electronic components illuminate the scene, blending domestic intimacy with the accumulation of physical media.

The World Is On Fire

Dorner Prize

April 1 - June 1, 2025

A white clay object, curved and adorned with with Cambodian style ornamentation and a red streak running through it, is wrapped by red silk threads and suspended in the air on a white backdrop.

soft presence, hard absence

Dorner Prize

May 7 - September 15, 2024

A print made up of Greek pottery shards colored blue, orange, green, and tan. Each shard shows a piece of a different scene or pattern and all of the shards fit together to make the print.

Fantasy, Myth, Legend

Imagining the Past in Works on Paper since 1750

December 16, 2023 - June 2, 2024

Digital line drawing of a building exterior with double doors flanked by two windows on each side. The two innermost windows have colorful brick panel renderings superimposed onto the line drawing.

Bricked Over Windows

Dorner Prize

March 22 - June 2, 2024

A charcoal drawing of a sculptural, nude male torso seen from behind. The figure is heavily shaded and detailed, and fine lines express detailed contours of the body.

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum

March 12 - September 4, 2022

Raid the Icebox Now with Beth Katleman

Games of Chance

November 8, 2019 - July 11, 2021

Samurai At Leisure

November 26, 2019 - May 24, 2020

Daimyo Culture in Peacetime

August 17, 2018 - April 5, 2020

Intermission

December 16, 2016 - July 2, 2017

Dorner Prize 2016

Conversation Pieces

February 18 - June 5, 2016

Landscape and Leisure

19th-Century American Drawings from the Collection

March 13 - July 19, 2015

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Fifty Works for Rhode Island

July 20 - December 2, 2012

Pilgrims of Beauty

Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy

February 3 - July 8, 2012

British Artists Abroad

December 1, 2008 - April 19, 2009

Rethinking the Romans

New Views of Ancient Sculpture

April 6, 2001 - January 2, 2009

From Dürer to Van Gogh

Gifts from Eliza Greene Radeke and Helen Metcalf Danforth

June 5 - October 26, 2008

Edo Theater

The Drama of Kabuki

January 18 - May 18, 2008

Re-Viewing the Twentieth Century

July 21, 2006 - April 22, 2007

A pen and ink with brown wash gestural drawing of Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross by his followers and Mary. The faceless figures create a pyramid form.

Design and Description

Renaissance and Baroque Drawings

January 27 - April 9, 2006

Better Still

Looking at Still Life in the Museum Collection

February 6 - May 2, 2004

Contemporary British Prints

July 26 - September 29, 2002

Korin Gafu and the Rimpa Tradition in Japanese Printmaking

March 8 - June 2, 2002

"The Center Cannot Hold"

Art from 1900-1920

March 1 - July 1, 1999

Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture

February 20, 1996 - April 20, 1997