Exhibitions
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Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch
May 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024American Indian Museum New YorkShelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.
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#IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit
March 5, 2022 – March 27, 2022Smithsonian Gardens#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit is he largest collection of statues of women ever assembled together, to be installed on and around the National Mall.
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Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs
April 6, 2018 – January 27, 2019American Art MuseumThis exhibition traces the history of A box of ten photographs between 1969 and 1973, telling the crucial story of the portfolio that established the foundation for Arbus’s posthumous career.
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Romaine Brooks
June 17, 2016 – October 2, 2016American Art MuseumThis exhibition brings together 50 paintings and drawings from the museum’s permanent collection.
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Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage
January 20, 2012 – May 20, 2012American Art MuseumThe images in this collection chart a new direction for Annie Leibovitz, one of America's best known living photographers, whose career now spans more than 40 years.
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Annie Pootoogook
June 13, 2009 – October 10, 2010American Indian Museum New YorkVisit 39 works that chronicle the social, economic, and cultural realities of Inuit life in the Canadian North by Annie Pootoogook (Inuit, b. 1969).
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Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty
August 13, 2005 – September 17, 2006Freer Gallery of ArtSee the major works that Freer acquired during his first 12 years as a collector— images of beautiful women by James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Abbott Handerson Thayer.
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Miriam Schapiro: A Woman's Way
April 25, 1997 – July 20, 1997American Art MuseumFeaturing key works from the 1970s to the 1990s, this exhibition presents mixed-media canvases and prints from the Feminist Art Movement and the Pattern and Decoration trend.
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Lost & Found: Edmonia Lewis's Cleopatra
June 7, 1996 – April 14, 1997American Art MuseumSee the life and work of Edmonia Lewis, a nineteenth-century African American sculptor.
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North American Wildflowers: Watercolors by Mary Vaux WalcottApril 15, 1994 – August 29, 1994American Art Museum
Admire 50 original watercolors from North American Wildflowers published in 1925 by the Smithsonian Institution, that represent a fraction of the over 700 watercolors Walcott created.
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American Women of the Etching RevivalMarch 15, 1989 – May 31, 1989American History Museum
This exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first comprehensive exhibit of works by American women. The show includes approximately 70 etchings by such artists as Mary Cassatt, Ellen Day Hale, Martha Scudder Twachtman, and Gabrielle Clements.
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Lilly Martin Spencer (1822-1902): The Joys of SentimentJune 15, 1973 – September 3, 1973American Art Museum
See the first exhibition of the works of one of America's formost 19th century woman artists, including some 30 paintings, 28 drawings and 10 prints, all of pretty, sentimental and anecdotal subjects.
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