Past Exhibitions

Recent Exhibition History

2004
World War II Posters: Inspiring the Workforce	May 25 - Aug 20
Seen But Not Heard: Images of Children from the Collection of the Boston Athenæum	Sep 15 - Dec 4

2005
Power Line: The Art of Leo Dee	Feb 17 - Apr 30
Places of the Spirit: Sacred Sites of the Adirondacks	Jun 16 - Sep 2
Writers: Photographs by Nancy Crampton	Sep 30 - Dec 3

2006
George and Martha Washington: Gilbert Stuart’s Athenæum Portraits	Feb 22 - May 13
Picturing the Banjo	Jul 26 - Oct 21

2007
Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenæum	Feb 13 - Jul 14
From Boston Collections	Oct 10 - Dec 1
Allan Rohan Crite: A Memorial Installation	Nov 1 - Feb 2

2008
All Shook Up: Thomas Kellner Photographs the Boston Athenæum	Feb 13 - Apr 19
“Always Delightfully Cool”: Summer Vacations in Northern New England 1825-1900	May 7 - Aug 22
Albert Wein, American Modernist	Sep 17 - Nov 29

2009
Vanderwarker’s Pantheon	Feb 11 - May 9
Treasures from the Boston Athenæum: Summer Installation 2009	May 27 -Aug 28
George Pope Morris: Defining American Culture	Sep 23- Dec 24

2010
ARTIST + POET: George Nama and Charles Simic	Feb 10 -Apr 10
John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist	May 12 -Sep 3
Five by Five: Paintings from the Collection	Oct 12 - Jan 8

2011
Elegant Enigmas: the art of Edward Gorey	Feb 9 - June 4
FACES & PLACES: Mid-19th Century Boston	June - Sept 20

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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