Past Exhibitions

Since its inagural exhibition in 1961, the Carter has mounted more than 500 exhibitions.

2012

October 16, 2012January 13, 2013
Larry Sultan’s Homeland: American Story
October 6, 2012January 6, 2013
To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection
June 9, 2012August 19, 2012
American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and Their Circle, 1927–1942
March 13, 2012October 14, 2012
Ruth Asawa: Organic Meditations
March 11, 2012June 17, 2012
Sargent’s Youthful Genius: Paintings from the Clark
March 3, 2012September 2, 2012
Feature Photography Exhibition: The Medium and Its Metaphors
February 18, 2012September 16, 2012
Masterworks of American Photography: Series and Sequences
February 11, 2012May 13, 2012
Romance Maker: The Watercolors of 
Charles M. Russell

2011

November 5, 2011January 8, 2012
John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury
September 10, 2011February 19, 2012
Feature Photography Exhibition: Work
August 13, 2011February 5, 2012
Masterworks of American Photography: Landscape
July 9, 2011October 9, 2011
The Allure of Paper: Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection
June 18, 2011December 31, 2011
Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935–1965
May 14, 2011August 28, 2011
Subhankar Banerjee: Where I Live I Hope to Know
February 26, 2011June 19, 2011
The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision
February 11, 2011July 31, 2011
Masterworks of American Photography: Artistic Communities
January 29, 2011May 29, 2011
Nature Bound: Illustrated Botanical Books

2010

November 20, 2010May 1, 2011
From Survey to Canal: Photographs of the Isthmus of Panama
October 2, 2010January 2, 2011
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
August 14, 2010January 23, 2011
Masterworks of American Photography
June 26, 2010September 5, 2010
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s
May 29, 2010November 7, 2010
Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light
May 25, 2010December 5, 2010
Leon Polk Smith: The Tamarind Lithography Workshop
February 27, 2010May 30, 2010
American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
January 16, 2010July 18, 2010
Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture

2009

December 12, 2009May 16, 2010
Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian
November 24, 2009May 17, 2010
Freedom Now: Tamarind Lithography Workshop
September 19, 2009January 10, 2010
Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970
July 9, 2009November 29, 2009
Circle of Friends: Portraits of Artists
July 9, 2009November 1, 2009
Rufino Tamayo: Tamarind Lithography Workshop
June 19, 2009January 3, 2010
Masterworks of American Photography: Moments in Time
June 6, 2009August 23, 2009
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper
March 7, 2009June 28, 2009
High Modernism: Alfred Stieglitz and His Legacy
February 14, 2009May 10, 2009
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision

2008

December 5, 2008June 7, 2009
First Look: Masterworks of American Photography
November 15, 2008February 15, 2009
Mary Lucier: The Plains of Sweet Regret
October 26, 2008April 19, 2009
An American Original: George Bellows, His Lithographs, and the 1936 Texas Centennial
October 25, 2008April 30, 2009
Allen Jones and Nicholas Krushenick: Tamarind Lithography Workshop
September 20, 2008January 11, 2009
Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller
June 28, 2008October 12, 2008
Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900
June 14, 2008August 24, 2008
Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism
May 17, 2008October 26, 2008
Nell Dorr: From Everlasting to Everlasting
March 8, 2008June 15, 2008
Fort Worth Landmarks in the 1950s: Watercolors by Bror Utter
February 16, 2008May 11, 2008
Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s
February 16, 2008April 27, 2008
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson

2007

September 15, 2007January 6, 2008
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
August 18, 2007July 27, 2008
100 Years of Autochrome
August 18, 2007February 10, 2008
Masterworks of American Photography
August 18, 2007February 3, 2008
With New Eyes: Exploration and the American West
August 18, 2007October 14, 2007
A Sense of Place: Precisionism in America