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Past Exhibitions

The Gallery, Bicentennial Exhibition, photo by Sean Ackley 2007.

  

2004  

World War II Posters: Inspiring the Workforce

May 25 - August 20

Seen But Not Heard: Images of Children from the Collection of the Boston Athenæum

September 15 - December 4
   
2005  

Power Line: The Art of Leo Dee

February 17 - April 30

Places of the Spirit: Sacred Sites of the Adirondacks

Jun 16 - September 2

Writers: Photographs by Nancy Crampton

September 30 - December 3
   
2006  

George and Martha Washington: Gilbert Stuart’s Athenæum Portraits

February 22 - May 13

Picturing the Banjo

July 26 - October 21
   
2007  

Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenæum

February 13 - July 14

From Boston Collections

October 10 - December 1

Allan Rohan Crite: A Memorial Installation

November 1 - February 2
   
2008  

All Shook Up: Thomas Kellner Photographs the Boston Athenæum

February 13 - April 19

“Always Delightfully Cool”: Summer Vacations in Northern New England 1825-1900

May 7 - August 22

Albert Wein, American Modernist

September 17 - November 29
   
2009  

Vanderwarker’s Pantheon

February 11 - May 9

Treasures from the Boston Athenæum: Summer Installation 2009

May 27 -August 28 

George Pope Morris: Defining American Culture

September 23 - December 24 
   

2010

 

ARTIST + POET: George Nama and Charles Simic

February 10 - April 10

John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist

May 12 - September 3

Five by Five: Paintings from the Collection

October 12 - January 8
   
2011  

Elegant Enigmas: the art of Edward Gorey

February 9 - June 4
FACES & PLACES: Mid-19th Century Boston June - September 20
Artists' Books: Books By Artists October - March 2012
   
2012  
George Deem: The Art of Art History April 11 - August 31
CHROMO-MANIA! The Art of Chromolithography Boston, 1840-1910 September 28 - January 12, 2013

 

PLEASE NOTE:

  • The Boston Athenæum will consider exhibition proposals submitted by professional curators or museum staff only.
  • Any other unsolicited exhibition proposals will not be considered. Unsolicited material will not be returned to the sender.
  • The Boston Athenæum does not organize or host solo exhibitions of the work of living artists.  

Exhibition: Picturing the Banjo 2006

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