Past Exhibitions
Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum
March 3, 2013–May 26, 2013
Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print
September 23, 2012–February 10, 2013
Word Up: The Intersection of Text and Image
July 22, 2012–January 20, 2013
Still-Life Masterpieces: A Visual Feast from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
October 21, 2012–January 13, 2013
A Discerning Eye: Julian T. Baker Jr. Photography Collection
June 17, 2012–December 2, 2012
Rhythms of the Heart: The Illustration of Ashley Bryan
April 15, 2012–August 19, 2012
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
March 18, 2012–July 29, 2012
Reflections: Portraits by Beverly McIver
December 11, 2011–June 24, 2012
Presence/Absence
November 27, 2011–May 27, 2012
Rembrandt in America
October 30, 2011–January 22, 2012
Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women
June 5–November 27, 2011
Landscape Sublime: Contemporary Photography
June 5–November 13, 2011
30 Americans
March 19–September 4, 2011
Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea
April 17–July 24, 2011
Bob Trotman: Inverted Utopias
November 7, 2010–March 27, 2011
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
November 7, 2010–January 30, 2011
Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor
November 7, 2010–January 30, 2011
Fins and Feathers: Original Children’s Book Illustrations from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
November 7, 2010–January 30, 2011
Julie Mehretu: City Sitings
August 17–November 30, 2008
Far from Home
February 17–July 13, 2008
Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism
October 21, 2007–January 20, 2008
The BIG Picture
March 18–September 2, 2007
Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum
April 14–July 8, 2007
Contemporary North Carolina Photography from the Museum's Collection
First rotation: September 3–November 5, 2006
Second rotation: November 19, 2006–February 18, 2007
Revolution in Paint
September 17, 2006–February 11, 2007
Monet in Normandy
October 15, 2006–January 14, 2007
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art
Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
May 7–July 16, 2006
Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt's Etchings
Selections from the John Villarino Collection
March 5–May 28, 2006
The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery
October 30, 2005–March 19, 2006
Crosscurrents: Art, Craft, and Design in North Carolina
September 25, 2005–January 8, 2006
On-line Exhibition: Winners of the In Focus Digital Photography Contest
Through December 31, 2005
Shadow Boxes: Collages of Experience and Memory
August 15–December 11, 2005
Fusion: Contemporary Glass Art from North Carolina Collections
May 8–August 7, 2005
In Focus: Contemporary Photography From The Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection
April 3–July 17, 2005
Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994–2004
Ended March 2, 2005
Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art
October 10, 2004–January 16, 2005
American Eden: Landscape Masterworks of the Hudson River School
From the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
June 6–August 29, 2004
Brushes With Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness
Ended August 15, 2004
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight
November 2, 2003–March 7, 2004
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age
February 23–May 11, 2003
Accent of Africa
April 6–August 10, 2003
In Memoriam: George Bireline (1923–2002)
December 18, 2002–August 3, 2003
Art in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
October 13, 2002–January 5, 2003
Selections from The Birds of America by John James Audubon
July 14–December 1, 2002
The Reverend McKendree Robbins Long: Picture Painter of the Apocalypse
April 7–August 25, 2002
Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection
May 19–July 28, 2002
Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art
November 11, 2001–February 17, 2002
Picasso, Braque, Leger: Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julian H. Robertson
June 10–September 9, 2001
Xu-Bing: Reading Landscape
April 29–August 5, 2001
Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism
March 4–July 1, 2001
Is Seeing Believing?
January 14– April 1, 2001
Ansel Adams
October 8, 2000–January 7, 2001
Rodin
April 16–August 13, 2000
Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau
January 31–March 28, 1999
Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light
Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers
September 27–December 13, 1998
Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory
Photographs by Bill Bamberger
July 26–October 18, 1998