Past Exhibitions

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

2013

February 28, 2013May 26, 2013
Marie Cosindas: Instant Color
February 28, 2013April 21, 2013
Big Pictures
January 26, 2013May 19, 2013
Photographs from the Collection
January 19, 2013May 19, 2013
Night: Prints and Drawings from the Collection

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
July 21, 2012January 20, 2013
Industrial Monuments: Photographs and Works on Paper from the Machine Age
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