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Past Exhibitions

Bookbinding designed by Otto Zahn
Captivating Covers
February—March 2022
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Dante in Boston​
September—December 2021
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40 Years: Celebrating the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers​
May—August 2021
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Online Exhibition: (Anti)Suffrage
Launched August 2020
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REQUIRED READING: ReIMAGINING A COLONIAL LIBRARY​
September 2019—March 2020
Walter Godfrey DeMaris (1877-1947) Avez-Vous Place dans Votre Coeur pour Nous? "Have You Room in Your Heart for Us?" ca. 1917 Photomechanical print Printed by the American Lithographic Co., New York; published by the Fatherless Children of France, New York Gift of Bartlett H. Hayes, 1985
Subscription Campaigns: Contributions in Support of Community​
April 2018—September 2018
Thomas Buford Meteyard (1865-1928), Self-Portrait, ca. 1894, Watercolor. Private collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
THOMAS BUFORD METEYARD (1865-1928): TRAVELS THROUGH IMPRESSIONISM​
October 2017 - February 2018
Elizabeth A. Goddard, A Playful Sea II, 2006. Monotype. Purchase, Frances Hovey Howe Print Fund, 2012
NEW ENGLAND ON PAPER: CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE BOSTON ATHENÆUM'S PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTIONS​
April 2017 - September 2017
Daniel Chester French, Mourning Victory, Maquette, ca. 1906, plaster, 14 7/8 x 7 ¾ x 2 ¾ inches. Chesterwood, a National Trust Site, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Gift of Daniel Chester French Foundation. Photograph by Paul Rocheleau, courtesy Chesterwood.
DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH: THE FEMALE FORM REVEALED
October 2016 - February 2017
Ben Nason (b. 1915), Cape Cod. The New Haven Railroad., ca. 1945. Photomechanical print. Purchase, Charles A. Cummings Fund, 2014.
COLLECTING FOR THE BOSTON ATHENÆUM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS
April 2016 - September 2016
Sir Thomas Hyde Page, A Plan of the Action at Bunkers Hill on the 17th of June 1775… London, 1793. Boston Athenaeum, Bromfield Fund Purchase, 2013.
COLLECTING FOR THE BOSTON ATHENÆUM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: MAPS, CHARTS, & PLANS
November 2015 - February 2016
LAFAYETTE: AN AMERICAN ICON
June - September 2015
AMERICAN NEOCLASSIC SCULPTURE AT THE BOSTON ATHENÆUM
February 2014 - May 2015
OVER HERE: WORLD WAR I POSTERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD​
September 2014 - February 2015
The Little School
COLLECTING FOR THE BOSTON ATHENÆUM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS​
April - August 2014
COLLECTING FOR THE BOSTON ATHENÆUM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE​
September 2013 - March 2014
Picture Gallery of the Boston Athenaeum, by Meneghelli
BRILLIANT BEGINNINGS: THE ATHENÆUM AND THE MUSEUM IN BOSTON
February - August 2013
North Woods, L. Prang & Co., lithographer
CHROMO-MANIA! THE ART OF CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY IN BOSTON, 1840-1910
September 2012 - January 2013
Detail of George Washington, by George Deem
GEORGE DEEM: THE ART OF ART HISTORY
April - August 2012
Brooklyn Bridge : a love song, by Don Glaister
ARTISTS' BOOKS: BOOKS BY ARTISTS
October - March 2012