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Past
Jul 14, 2009 - Oct 18, 2009
A New and Native Beauty:
The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
May 30, 2009 - Nov 2, 2009
Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints
May 30, 2009 - Nov 2, 2009
Viva Mexico! Edward Weston
and His Contemporaries
May 15, 2009 - Jul 12, 2009
Paper Telephone
Mar 28, 2009 - May 25, 2009
SMFA Traveling Scholars
Mar 15, 2009 - Aug 16, 2009
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese:
Rivals in Renaissance Venice
Mar 7, 2009 - Aug 2, 2009
Mad on Color:
Paintings of Nineteenth-Century Venice
Feb 11, 2009 - Nov 8, 2009
Showa Sophistication:
Japan in the 1930s
Jan 22, 2009 - May 17, 2009
Splendor and Elegance:
European Decorative Arts and Drawings
from the Horace Wood Brock Collection
Dec 10, 2008 - Sep 7, 2009
Celebrating Kyoto:
Modern Arts from Boston's Sister City
Nov 19, 2008 - May 10, 2009
Photographic Figures
Nov 8, 2008 - Jul 13, 2009
Gentlemen of Suzhou
Nov 5, 2008 - Jun 21, 2009
“And so to Bed”:
Indian Bed Curtains from
a Stately English Home
Oct 15, 2008 - Jan 25, 2009
Rachel Whiteread
Oct 1, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009
Zen Mind/Zen Brush:
Japanese Ink Paintings
from the Gitter-Yelen Collection
Sep 23, 2008 - Jan 19, 2009
Karsh 100:
A Biography in Images
Sep 21, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009
Art and Empire:
Treasures from Assyria
in the British Museum
Sep 20, 2008 - May 31, 2009
Visions of Kyoto:
Scenes from Japan's Ancient Capital
Aug 9, 2008 - Aug 10, 2008
1950s and 1960s "Dream Car" Model-rama
Jul 23, 2008 - Nov 9, 2008
Imperishable Beauty:
Art Nouveau Jewelry
Jun 30, 2008 - Oct 1, 2008
Twentieth-Century Modernism
Jun 20, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009
Winslow Homer:
American Scenes
Jun 20, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009
Great Company:
Portraits by European Masters
Apr 20, 2008 - Jul 27, 2008
El Greco to Velázquez:
Art during the Reign of Philip III
Apr 13, 2008 - Jul 27, 2008
Antonio López García
Apr 8, 2008 - Sep 16, 2008
Rockwell and the Shinjin:
Celebrating Baseball and the Red Sox
Feb 4, 2008 - Apr 20, 2008
Twentieth-Century Modernism Part One
Feb 2, 2008 - Nov 2, 2008
Kufic Korans:
Calligraphy in the World of Islam
Feb 2, 2008 - Mar 2, 2008
SMFA Traveling Scholars
Jan 30, 2008 - Jun 1, 2008
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939
Jan 26, 2008 - Aug 13, 2008
The Brilliance of Bird-and-Flower
Painting
Dec 15, 2007 - Sep 14, 2008
Zhang Daqian:
Painter, Collector, Forger
Nov 10, 2007 - Aug 3, 2008
Sumo:
Japan's Big Sport
Oct 27, 2007 - May 4, 2008
Drawing: A Broader Definition
Oct 21, 2007 - Jan 27, 2008
Symbols of Power:
Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800-1815
Oct 1, 2007 - Feb 17, 2008
Arthur Wesley Dow: Photographer and Printmaker
Sep 27, 2007 - Mar 23, 2008
Walk This Way
Sep 22, 2007 - Jan 13, 2008
Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection
Sep 20, 2007 - Dec 31, 2007
Winslow Homer at the MFA
Sep 11, 2007 - Jan 6, 2008
Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft. Selections from the Wornick Collection
Aug 28, 2007 - Dec 16, 2007
Drama and Desire:
Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690–1850
Jul 3, 2007 - Apr 13, 2008
Resounding Ragas: Paintings and Musical Memory in India
Jul 2, 2007 - Feb 10, 2008
Contemporary Outlook: German Photography
Jul 2, 2007 - Feb 10, 2008
Contemporary Outlook: Japan
May 22, 2007 - Mar 5, 2008
Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection
May 22, 2007 - Mar 5, 2008
Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection
May 18, 2007 - Jul 9, 2007
Giant Inspirations
May 11, 2007 - Jan 27, 2008
Glittering Gold: Illumination in Islamic Art
May 6, 2007 - Aug 19, 2007
Edward Hopper
Apr 10, 2007 - Aug 5, 2007
War and Discontent
Mar 26, 2007 - Sep 2, 2007
Material Journeys: Collecting African and Oceanic Art, 1945–2000. Selections from the Geneviève McMillan Collection
Mar 10, 2007 - Aug 1, 2007
Through Six Generations: The Weng Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Feb 10, 2007 - Mar 11, 2007
SMFA Traveling Scholars
Jan 24, 2007 - Jul 8, 2007
Donatello to Giambologna: Italian Renaissance Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jan 10, 2007 - Oct 28, 2007
Women of Renown: Female Heroes and Villains in the Prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Dec 16, 2006 - Jun 17, 2007
Michael Mazur: The Art of the Print
Dec 12, 2006 - May 6, 2007
The Romance of Modernism: Paintings and Sculpture from the Scott M. Black Collection
Nov 22, 2006 - Dec 10, 2006
2006 Maud Morgan Prize: Ambreen Butt
Nov 18, 2006 - Mar 25, 2007
Fashion Photography
Nov 12, 2006 - Mar 18, 2007
Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006
Oct 18, 2006 - Jan 15, 2007
Cecily Brown
Oct 7, 2006 - Nov 26, 2006
Recent Acquisitions: Gifts of Art
Sep 20, 2006 - Nov 26, 2006
Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian Painting
Sep 14, 2006 - Jun 3, 2007
Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery: Selections from the Bloom Collection
Aug 19, 2006 - Jul 11, 2007
Beyond Basketry: Japanese Bamboo Art
Aug 19, 2006 - Jul 11, 2007
Tsutsugaki Textiles from the Collection of David and Marita Paly
Aug 1, 2006 - Nov 12, 2006
Recent Acquisitions: African Printed Textiles
Jul 26, 2006 - Feb 25, 2007
Designing the Modern Utopia: Soviet Textiles from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
Jul 21, 2006 - Apr 25, 2007
Marbling and Music: Performing Sufism at a Turkish Tekke
Jul 8, 2006 - Jan 9, 2007
Understanding the Master: Dong Qichang and His Circle
Jul 1, 2006 - Sep 13, 2006
Sargent, Chase, Cassatt: Master Paintings from a Private Collection
Jun 25, 2006 - Sep 24, 2006
Americans in Paris, 1860–1900
May 13, 2006 - Sep 17, 2006
Laura McPhee: River of No Return
Apr 5, 2006 - Dec 31, 2006
On Stage in Osaka: Actor Prints from the MFA Collection
Feb 26, 2006 - May 14, 2006
David Hockney Portraits
Feb 18, 2006 - Apr 12, 2006
SMFA Traveling Scholars
Feb 13, 2006 - Aug 13, 2006
Light My Fire: Rock Posters from the Summer of Love
Jan 27, 2006 - Dec 31, 2006
Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Art 1860-1940
Jan 18, 2006 - Jul 23, 2006
Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters
Dec 7, 2005 - Apr 16, 2006
Facets of Cubism
Nov 22, 2005 - Dec 11, 2005
2005 Maud Morgan Prize: Shelley Reed
Nov 2, 2005 - Mar 26, 2006
West African Gold: Akan Regalia from the Glassell Collection
Oct 6, 2005 - Jul 9, 2006
Contemporary Cloth: Stoles by Minagawa Makiko
Oct 6, 2005 - Jul 9, 2006
Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century
Sep 17, 2005 - Jan 16, 2006
Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg
Aug 31, 2005 - Nov 27, 2005
Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch
Aug 21, 2005 - Jan 4, 2006
Ansel Adams
Jul 9, 2005 - Jan 8, 2006
Sounds of the Silk Road: Musical Instruments of Asia
Jul 1, 2005 - Mar 28, 2006
A Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War in History and Imagery
Jul 1, 2005 - Jan 8, 2006
American West: Dust and Dreams
Jun 1, 2005 - Aug 21, 2005
The Quilts of Gee's Bend
Apr 21, 2005 - Jul 18, 2005
Future Retro: Drawings from the Great Age of American Automobiles
Apr 5, 2005 - Jun 19, 2005
Rockwell and the Red Sox
Mar 6, 2005 - Jul 3, 2005
Speed, Style, and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection
Mar 1, 2005 - Mar 15, 2006
Antioch Mosaic Conservation
Jan 24, 2005 - Apr 24, 2005
A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections
Jan 19, 2005 - May 30, 2005
Sets, Series, and Suites: Contemporary Prints
Jan 11, 2005 - Jun 29, 2005
Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection
Dec 17, 2004 - Jun 6, 2005
Pursuits of Power: Falconry and the Samurai, 1600-1900
Nov 2, 2004 - Mar 13, 2005
High Style and Hoopskirts: The 1850s
Oct 6, 2004 - Jan 30, 2005
Cerith Wyn Evans
Aug 22, 2004 - Jan 9, 2005
Art Deco: 1910-1939
Jul 28, 2004 - Apr 3, 2005
Josef Sudek: Poet With A Camera
Jul 21, 2004 - Nov 28, 2004
Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit
Jun 10, 2004 - Mar 13, 2005
Early Chinese Landscape Painting
Apr 21, 2004 - Sep 6, 2004
Tim Noble & Sue Webster
Mar 10, 2004 - Jun 6, 2004
Art of the Japanese Postcard: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection
Feb 29, 2004 - Jun 20, 2004
Gauguin Tahiti
Feb 8, 2004 - Mar 14, 2004
Traveling Scholars 2003
Dec 15, 2003 - Jun 28, 2004
In A New Light: Investigations of the Japanese Collection
Dec 4, 2003 - Jun 7, 2004
Early Chinese Figure Painting: A Long-Neglected Tradition
Dec 3, 2003 - Sep 19, 2004
Draped In Dragons: Chinese Court Costume
Nov 19, 2003 - Feb 22, 2004
Dutch Interiors in the Age of Vermeer
Nov 12, 2003 - Feb 8, 2004
The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990
Oct 26, 2003 - Jan 18, 2004
Rembrandt's Journey: Painter | Draftsman | Etcher
Sep 1, 2003 - Jan 20, 2004
View Sargents New and Old
Aug 23, 2003 - Nov 3, 2004
Chinese Jades from the Hartman Collection
Jul 23, 2003 - Jan 25, 2004
Callot and His World: Princes, Paupers, and Pageants
Jul 4, 2003 - Sep 1, 2003
Annual Summer Masterwork Exchange with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jun 15, 2003 - Sep 14, 2003
Thomas Gainsborough
May 14, 2003 - Jan 4, 2004
John Currin Selects
Apr 2, 2003 - Sep 21, 2003
Visions and Revisions: Art on Paper since 1960
Feb 16, 2003 - Apr 6, 2003
Traveling Scholars 2002
Feb 4, 2003 - Jul 18, 2003
A Singular Vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Legacy
Dec 15, 2002 - Apr 13, 2003
Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet
Dec 4, 2002 - Nov 15, 2004
RSVP: Sarah Sze
Oct 23, 2002 - Feb 2, 2003
The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist
Oct 5, 2002 - Jan 5, 2003
Sargent's Seven Sisters
Sep 25, 2002 - Jan 12, 2003
Adam Fuss
Sep 18, 2002 - Mar 30, 2003
Threads on the Edge: The Daphne Farago Fiber Art Collection
Aug 14, 2002 - Feb 23, 2003
Lens Landscapes
Jul 28, 2002 - Oct 20, 2002
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections
Jul 5, 2002 - Sep 2, 2002
Annual Summer Masterwork Exchange with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jun 12, 2002 - Sep 15, 2002
The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Paintings in Boston Collections
May 22, 2002 - Aug 18, 2002
Robert Rauschenberg: Recent Work
May 14, 2002 - Apr 15, 2003
Images of Nature
May 4, 2002 - Nov 17, 2002
Latin America on Paper
Apr 24, 2002 - Aug 18, 2002
Building A Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art
Feb 23, 2002 - Mar 31, 2002
Traveling Scholars
Feb 17, 2002 - Jun 9, 2002
Impressionist Still Life
Jan 23, 2002 - Apr 29, 2002
From Paris to Provincetown: Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodcut
Oct 28, 2001 - Jul 18, 2003
Earth Transformed: Chinese Ceramics from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Oct 21, 2001 - Jan 6, 2002
Fashion Photographs by William Wegman
Oct 21, 2001 - Jan 6, 2002
The Look: Images of Glamour and Style Photographs by Horst and Hoyningen-Huene
Oct 2, 2001 - Jan 21, 2002
Sophie Ristelhueber: Details of the World
Sep 29, 2001 - May 5, 2002
The Modern Woodcut
Sep 19, 2001 - Mar 17, 2002
Poetry of the Loom: Persian Textiles in the MFA
Sep 8, 2001 - Nov 17, 2002
Netsuke: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture
Aug 15, 2001 - Dec 2, 2001
A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940
Jun 23, 2001 - Dec 9, 2001
The Inspiration of Women in Japanese Art
Jun 2, 2001 - Dec 2, 2001
Art of the Natural World: Recent Gifts from the Rosenblum Family Collection
Apr 25, 2001 - Sep 3, 2001
Takashi Murakami: Made in Japan
Apr 25, 2001 - Jul 15, 2001
Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Meiji Prints from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
Apr 14, 2001 - Jun 24, 2001
Olmstead's Emerald Necklace: Art of the Urban Landscape
Apr 8, 2001 - Aug 5, 2001
American Folk
Apr 7, 2001 - Sep 9, 2001
Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy
Mar 14, 2001 - Jul 29, 2001
From Head to Toe: Selections from the Costume Collection
Mar 3, 2001 - Apr 8, 2001
Traveling Scholars 2000
Dec 6, 2000 - Mar 25, 2001
Art and the Camera: The Photographs of F. Holland Day
Nov 20, 2000 - Jan 28, 2001
Color-Field Painting
Nov 11, 2000 - Mar 18, 2001
Boston 1900
Nov 5, 2000 - Feb 25, 2001
Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar
Sep 13, 2000 - Jan 28, 2001
The Fabric of a Collection
Aug 9, 2000 - Nov 12, 2000
Christian Boltanski: Reflexion
Aug 9, 2000 - Oct 29, 2000
Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
Jul 25, 2000 - Nov 5, 2000
Van Gogh to Mondrian: Dutch Works on Paper
Jul 2, 2000 - Sep 24, 2000
Van Gogh: Face to Face
Jun 3, 2000 - Dec 10, 2000
Japanese Artists: Amateurs or Professionals
May 20, 2000 - Oct 29, 2000
In the Holland Garden: 17th and 18th-century Dutch Works on Paper
Mar 25, 2000 - Jul 23, 2000
Common Threads: A Showcase of Samplers
Mar 19, 2000 - May 28, 2000
Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism
Mar 10, 2000 - Oct 12, 2000
Felicities of Line: Persian and Turkish Drawings
Mar 1, 2000 - Jun 25, 2000
Crowning Glories: Two Centuries of Tiaras
Mar 1, 2000 - Mar 31, 2000
Tempted by Tiaras: Drawings by Nan Freeman
Feb 16, 2000 - Jul 23, 2000
Michael Mazur: Recent Paintings
Feb 16, 2000 - May 14, 2000
Michael Mazur: A Print Retrospective
Jan 26, 2000 - Dec 31, 2004
The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection of English Silver 1680-1760: The Huguenot Legacy
Nov 24, 1999 - Apr 30, 2000
View from Above: The Photographs of Bradford Washburn
Nov 18, 1999 - Jan 17, 2000
Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties
Nov 14, 1999 - Feb 6, 2000
Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen
Nov 8, 1999 - May 15, 2000
Sashes and Moustaches: Men’s Fashion in Indian Portraiture
Oct 15, 1999 - Apr 12, 2000
Ebrû: Contemporary Marbling by Feridun Özgören
Sep 29, 1999 - Jan 16, 2000
Martin Johnson Heade
Sep 11, 1999 - Oct 17, 1999
Traveling Scholars
Jun 27, 1999 - Sep 26, 1999
John Singer Sargent
Jun 5, 1999 - Nov 7, 1999
Drawn to Design
May 1, 1999 - Aug 8, 1999
May Stevens: Images of Women Near and Far
Apr 17, 1999 - Nov 7, 1999
Joel Shapiro
Apr 3, 1999 - Jun 6, 1999
Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians: Treasures from the Republic of Bulgaria
Mar 24, 1999 - Jul 25, 1999
Fashions and Fabric in a Classical Mode
Feb 26, 1999 - Sep 20, 1999
Beauty and Accomplishments: Ideal Women in Japanese Prints
Feb 17, 1999 - Apr 11, 1999
Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye
Feb 14, 1999 - May 9, 1999
Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman
Nov 21, 1998 - May 23, 1999
French Photography: Le Gray to Atget
Oct 21, 1998 - Jan 10, 1999
French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers
Sep 30, 1998 - Jan 24, 1999
Ambassadors from the East: Oriental Rugs in the MFA
Sep 20, 1998 - Dec 27, 1998
Monet in the 20th Century
Sep 19, 1998 - Jan 17, 1999
Reflections of Monet
Jul 7, 1998 - Sep 27, 1998
PhotoImage: Printmaking 60s to 90s
May 16, 1998 - Nov 8, 1998
Beauty Contest: Quality in Prints
Apr 22, 1998 - Jul 31, 1998
High Art/High Jinks in Contemporary Art
Apr 14, 1998 - Oct 25, 1998
Arthur G. Dove: Mixing Media
Mar 31, 1998 - Aug 31, 1998
An Adventure with Wallace & Gromit
Mar 17, 1998 - Jun 7, 1998
Julia Margaret Cameron: Victorian Photographer
Feb 25, 1998 - May 17, 1998
A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Jan 28, 1998 - Jul 5, 1998
Images of Fashion
Nov 20, 1997 - Mar 23, 1997
Dressing Up: Children's Fashions 1720-1920
Oct 11, 1997 - Apr 12, 1998
America Draws
Sep 10, 1997 - Jan 4, 1997
Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906
Aug 13, 1997 - Jan 11, 1998
Glass Today by American Studio Artists
Jul 24, 1997 - Jan 5, 1997
The Big City: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Jul 4, 1997 - Nov 9, 1997
Chinoiserie: The Lure of the East
May 17, 1997 - Aug 24, 1997
Ikat: Splendid Silks of Central Asia from the Guido Goldman Collection
Apr 13, 1997 - Jul 20, 1997
Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1000 Years of Chinese Paintings
Mar 28, 1997 - Jul 28, 1997
The Needle's Excellency: English Needlework of the Tudor and Stuart Periods
Mar 19, 1997 - Jul 6, 1997
Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes in the Chinese Style
Feb 15, 1997 - Sep 7, 1997
Durer in His Time
Jan 18, 1997 - Apr 21, 1997
The Art of John Biggers
Sep 14, 1996 - Dec 29, 1996
Alfred Stieglitz and Early Modern Photography
Jul 30, 1996 - Sep 1, 1997
This is the Modern World: Furnishings of the 20th Century
Jul 9, 1996 - Oct 20, 1996
Karsh Portraits: The Searching Eye
Jun 26, 1996 - Sep 15, 1996
Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven
Jun 2, 1996 - Dec 31, 2002
The Firestone Collection of French Silver
May 15, 1996 - Nov 25, 1996
Machines, Marvels, and Medicines: Illustrations from Arab Scientific Manuscripts
Feb 21, 1996 - May 27, 1996
Winslow Homer
Feb 2, 1996 - Aug 18, 1996
Individuals and Eccentrics in 18th-Century Chinese Painting
Feb 1, 1996 - Feb 1, 2002
American Traditions: Art of the People
"Preserving History, Making History: the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" on view in the Stamas and Vrachos Hemicycle Gallery (Lower Hemicycle) Jun 20, 2008-Sep 22, 2009
"RSVP: Jim Lambie" on view in the Lower Galleria Nov 10, 2007-May 25, 2008
Cafe and Cabaret: Toulouse-Lautrec
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