Multiples: 20th- and 21st-Century Art
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Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection of prints, this survey includes recently acquired lithographs and silkscreens by John Baldessari, Sarah Sze, Sam Francis, and John Wesley, among other artists.
Past Exhibitions
Throughout the Museum’s history the staff has produced a wide array of critically acclaimed exhibitions both with works from the permanent collection and with objects borrowed from other institutions.
In addition, we have hosted a number of nationally and internationally recognized exhibits curated by organizations that specialize in traveling shows. Some of our more recent exhibitions are archived here. Please browse the links to the left to view our past exhibitions by year
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Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports
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Christian A. Johnson Gallery and Overbrook Gallery
This exhibit focuses on artists from the mid-1990s to the present who question the notion of the male athlete as the last bastion of uncomplicated, authentic identity in American culture during the preceding decades.
Friends Bearing Gifts: 40 Years of Acquisitions from the Friends of the Art Museum
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Highlighting forty acquisitions made by the Friends of the Art Museum, this exhibition surveys the history of the Friends and includes works from all periods and cultures represented in the Museum’s permanent collection.
Moving Images: Works from the Permanent Collection of Photography and Video Art
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This installation of photographs and single-channel video works is offered in conjunction with fall courses in both Film and Media Culture and the History of Art and Architecture.
Celebrity
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Paintings, prints, and photographs from the Permanent Collection are the basis of this exhibition focused on the idea and the presentation of celebrity.
American Paintings and Prints from Shelburne Museum
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Selected from the extensive collection of paintings at the Shelburne Museum, these thirty works represent the wide range of interests of American artists working in both urban and rural areas before 1900.
Greece vs. Rome: The Eighteenth-Century Quest for the Sources of Western Civilization
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The debate regarding the respective merits of ancient Greece and Rome that pervaded Rome during the Enlightenment is documented with Piranesi prints of ancient Rome and plates from Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens.
The Art of Devotion: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy
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At heart a collaborative venture, the creation of early fifteenth-century panel paintings in Italy depended upon a tight network of connections between patrons, painters, woodworkers, and gilders. The product of these interactions was an object that served both as a focus for devotion, and as an emphatic statement about wealth and status.
Prints and Prejudice: Woodcuts and Artifacts of the American Civil War
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This exhibition will highlight the illustrations of Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast, A.R. Waud, and several other talented but anonymous artists as well as showcasing a variety of related artifacts and daguerreotypes. The exhibit was researched and organized by the students of Professor Christopher Wilson’s First Year Seminar “The Art and Life of Winslow Homer.”
Pastoral Vermont: The Paintings and Etchings of Luigi Lucioni
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In a career that spanned more than sixty years, the Italian-born artist Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988) devoted much of his attention to developing and refining a personal vision of the Vermont landscape. This exhibition of more than seventy oil paintings, etchings, and watercolors considers the leitmotifs of his vision: rolling hills, verdant valleys, majestic trees, and aging barns along with his painstaking devotion to still-life subjects and meticulously painted portraits.