Past Exhibitions
Results
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Leonard Baskin: Indian Portraits
June 22–September 1, 2013This exhibition, consisting of Baskin’s prints and drawings from the early 1970s, showcases his sense of social justice and admiration for American Indian life and culture through portraiture that is highly focused on facial features and expressions.
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We the People: Picturing American Identity
June 15–September 8, 2013This exhibition focuses on the fluidity of national identity through the creations of American artists, particularly in key moments in history when the definition of a singular American identity was challenged and ultimately reshaped.
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Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
May 18–August 11, 2013This exhibition features Bearden’s landmark series of collages and watercolors based on Homer’s classic work of Western literature, The Odyssey, recasting the heroes and villains as Black people and transforming the poem into a poignantly universal story through picture.
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Sedrick Huckaby: Hidden in Plain Site
May 14, 2013–February 2, 2014Using the freedom quilts of the past as a guide, Hidden in Plain Site uses a variety of metaphors and symbols encoded in patterns to address the idea of spiritual slavery as it exists today.
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Texas Regionalism
April 30, 2013–May 11, 2014This exhibition provides a poignant glimpse into the life and art of Texas during the Great Depression, showcasing local artists who use their own unique styles to interpret the state’s people and landscapes during this pivotal moment in history.
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Big Pictures
March 5–April 21, 2013Big Pictures explores the history of enlarged photography; from mammoth glass-plate negatives to photographic enlargers, this medium reveals a decades-long movement to make dramatic enlargements that sharply influence viewer interaction and interpretation.
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Marie Cosindas: Instant Color
February 28–May 26, 2013This exhibition focuses on the evolution of Cosindas’s career, from textile designer to abstract painter to renowned photographer. Her use of instant-developing color film proved instrumental in revealing the artistic potential of color photography for future artists in the medium.
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Photographs from the Collection
January 26–May 19, 2013Spanning photography’s history from 1840 to the present, this exhibition features highlights of the collection, including photographs from the Museum’s archives and several recent acquisitions, that intimate the diversity and richness of America’s photographic traditions.
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Night: Prints and Drawings from the Collection
January 19–May 19, 2013This exhibition focuses on nocturnes, or rendered night scenes, from the Carter’s works-on-paper collection, highlighting the night as a constant source of artistic inspiration from the still quiet of abandoned places to the bright lights of the bustling city.
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Ed Ruscha: Made in California
January 15–September 15, 2013This exhibition features the lithographs of Ed Ruscha, who, adding his own Pop Art flair to words suspended in space, created works reflective of his own experiences and the recurring themes from his paintings and screenprints.
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Larry Sultan's Homeland: American Story
October 16, 2012–January 13, 2013This exhibition celebrates Sultan’s Homeland project and the Carter’s acquisition of one of the series’ signature works. His California landscapes suggest redemption in the face of somber themes like illegal immigration and the 2008 housing crisis.
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To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection
October 6, 2012–January 6, 2013This landmark exhibition features masterworks from The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., tracing American art from the birth of the modern spirit to postwar painting through some of the finest examples of late 19th and 20th century art.
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Industrial Monuments: Photographs and Works on Paper from the Machine Age
July 21, 2012–January 20, 2013This exhibition presents photographs, prints, and drawings that reflect artists’ captivation with the constantly changing industrial landscape of America during the early 20th century and the marvels of the nation’s building and engineering.
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American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and their Circle, 1927-1942
June 9–August 19, 2012American Vanguards highlights the works and efforts of the charismatic John Graham and his circle of New York artists, who, along with forging their own identities in the art world, played a critical role in defining and shaping American modernism.
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Ruth Asawa: Organic Meditations
March 13–October 14, 2012Ruth Asawa: Organic Meditations features an elegant series of lithographs created during the artist’s fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in the mid-1960s that invite viewers to contemplate her unique vision of the natural world’s beauty and wonders.