Past Exhibitions
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January 23, 2015 - April 19, 2015Barney A. Ebsworth GalleryIn the 1960s works by some of the most significant European artists of the first half of the twentieth century—including Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as seminal contemporary... more -
January 23, 2015 - April 13, 2015Garen GallerySam Durant's Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C. consists of thirty minimalist appropriations of American monuments honoring victims from the seventeenth century to the... more -
January 23, 2015 - April 5, 2015Teaching GalleryThe reportage tradition in American illustration was born during the Civil War, when illustrators worked in the field as "special artists," sending sketches back to be engraved for publication, as Alfred Waud... more -
September 12, 2014 - January 4, 2015Barney A. Ebsworth GalleryDrawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association presents the first public museum exhibition of architectural drawings from the private collection of the noted educator Alvin Boyarsky.... more -
September 12, 2014 - January 4, 2015Garen GalleryEncountering the City: The Urban Experience in Contemporary Art investigates aesthetic engagement with the urban landscape and the experiential impact of contemporary built environments. Encompassing a wide... more -
September 12, 2014 - January 4, 2015Teaching GalleryThe myths of ancient Greece have inspired artists from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The transference of a myth from words to images is never straightforward. Picturing Narrative: Greek Mythology in... more -
May 9, 2014 - August 3, 2014Teaching GalleryAs part of STL250, a regionwide celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis, Inside the Palace of Fine Arts: Cosmopolitanism at the 1904 World’s Fair gathers together a selection of... more -
May 9, 2014 - August 24, 2014Garen GalleryA lampshade unfurled and dangling from the ceiling, a palimpsest of posters ripped and torn, a map eaten away by rain—spanning half a century, the artworks in this exhibition explore aesthetic engagement with... more -
May 9, 2014 - August 3, 2014Barney A. Ebsworth GalleryThis exhibition will feature thesis projects by 26 Master of Fine Arts students in Washington University’s Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The 2014 MFA... more -
January 31, 2014 - April 20, 2014Ebsworth GalleryThe history of the 20th and early 21st centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic... more