Past Exhibitions

Since its inagural exhibition in 1961, the Carter has mounted more than 500 exhibitions. The most recently closed exhibitions can be found below, and a comprehensive list of all past exhibitions can be found on the Exhibition History page.

February 27, 2010–May 30, 2010

American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Savor the opportunity to view the finest watercolors, pastels, and drawings by leading avant-garde American artists of the early 20th century. This February, these rarely seen artworks, from America’s oldest public art museum, will travel to the Carter. Artists represented include Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth.

January 16, 2010–July 18, 2010

Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture

Immerse yourself in the Carter’s latest photography exhibition, Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture. These images offer moments of recognition that bind us as a culture, and remind us of photography’s vibrant ability to reflect our shared lives.

December 12, 2009–May 16, 2010

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian

In 1900, Edward S. Curtis undertook the momentous task of documenting American Indian cultures across the United States. Over the next thirty years, he took over 40,000 photographs and collected information about more than eighty tribes, ranging from the Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. The Amon Carter Museum will display a selection of works from this compelling new acquisition.

November 24, 2009–May 17, 2010

Freedom Now: Tamarind Lithography Workshop

This exhibition of prints from the 1960s explores the international call for social and political justice and examines how a handful of artists addressed these themes through irony, satire, allegory, and stark realism.

September 19, 2009–January 10, 2010

Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970

Experience the intrigue and fascination of the early American West in a special exhibition of nineteenth and twentieth century prints and illustrated books from the Carter’s permanent collection.

July 9, 2009–November 29, 2009

Circle of Friends: Portraits of Artists

With the advent of American modernism, artists began making portraits of one another with increasing regularity. Photographers made portraits to document the members of their artistic communities, but in so doing they also created works that embody their artistic and personal ambitions.

Ongoing

Rufino Tamayo: Tamarind Lithography Workshop

Renowned Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo had a fellowship at the Los Angeles-based Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1964. Beginning this June, witness his work—ghostly apparitions of abstracted human figures—in this exhibition from the Carter’s permanent collection.

June 19, 2009–January 3, 2010

Masterworks of American Photography: Moments in Time

Journey through photography’s history in this sampling of works from the Carter’s renowned permanent collection. This presentation of Masterworks explores the medium’s unique relationship to time.

June 6, 2009–August 23, 2009

The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper

See the works of more than fifty African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years of this century. Drawn from one of the most esteemed private collections of works by African-American artists, this special exhibition features over ninety works by such luminaries as Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, and Charles White.

March 7, 2009–June 28, 2009

High Modernism: Alfred Stieglitz and His Legacy

Modern art photography is widely recognized as being born in the 1910s from the work of Alfred Stieglitz and his hand-picked group of artists. Follow the pathway set by Stieglitz and his colleagues in this exhibition of photographs that blend sharp focus, fine printing, and subscription to beauty.