Past Exhibitions

  • Charcoal drawing of a man and woman in overcoats

    Reflections / Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century

    April 10, 2009 - August 16, 2009

    This exhibition of approximately 75 works probed the complex issues of understanding identity in the past century. 

  • Marcel Duchamp / Marvin Lazarus

    Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture

    March 27, 2009 - August 2, 2009

    This groundbreaking exhibition cast a new light upon Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), one of the most influential artists of the recent past. This show demonstrated that Duchamp harnessed the power of portraiture and self-portraiture both to secure his reputation as an iconoclast and to establish himself as a major figure in the artworld.

  • Seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln

    One Life: The Mask of Lincoln

    November 7, 2008 - July 5, 2009

    To both his contemporaries and posterity, Abraham  Lincoln has been an endless subject of mystery and fascination. "One Life: The Mask of Lincoln" examined how Lincoln used the new art of photography to convey his image to Americans, letting them see in him what they most desired.

  • Pin with portrait of a young girl

    Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers

    October 24, 2008 - June 21, 2009

    Photographic jewelry flourished throughout the period from 1840 to 1875 and beyond. This poignant exhibition, drawn primarily from the collection of Larry J. West, featured rare and exquisite jewelry containing portraits in the 19th century's four main photographic processes—daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes and paper prints.

  • Poster of Bette Midler

    Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture

    May 9, 2008 - February 8, 2009

    Featuring sixty posters ranging in date from the late 19th century to the present, this exhibition demonstrated how posters function as portraiture.

     

  • Susan Sontag lying on a bed with her hands behind her head

    Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs

    October 10, 2008 - February 1, 2009

    In the exhibition "Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs," celebrates women who have challenged and changed America.

  • Painted portrait of Ho Nee Yeath Taw No Row, King of the Generethgarich Nations

    Four Indian Kings

    September 12, 2008 - January 25, 2009

    In 1710, a delegation of four Native American leaders—three Mohawk from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) alliance and one Mohican from the Algonquin nations—traveled to the Court of Queen Anne in London.

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