Past Exhibitions
Mirror of Holland
Drawings from the George and Maida Abrams Collection
The Maida and George Abrams Collection is one of the finest assemblages ever brought together of Dutch drawings, featuring works from the late 16th...
An Unspoken Dialogue with Japanese Tea
"An Unspoken Dialogue with Japanese Tea" has been organized to complement an exhibition and a series of programs focusing on the contemporary Japanese...
Conversations
Photography from the Bank of America Collection
This exhibition is selected from the wide-ranging art holdings of Bank of America, one of the largest and most comprehensive corporate collections of...
Flowers and Festivals
Four Seasons in Japanese Prints
Love of nature and awareness of the changing seasons, longstanding motifs in the literary and visual arts of Japan, often appear in the ukiyo-e...
Mirror of Holland
Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection
One of the remarkable aspects of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture is the extraordinary number of gifted artists—even if we leave aside artists...
Fresh Ink
Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition
“. . .an ingenious and engrossing show.” -The New York Times
Artists Abroad
London, Paris, Venice, and Rome 1825-1925
A tour abroad exposed artists to new environments, historic architecture and monuments, and famous art collections. It also enabled them to receive...
Embroideries of Colonial Boston: Samplers
The embroideries of colonial Boston girls and women have long been treasured family possessions and are now much sought after by collectors. The charm...
Modernist Photography 1910-1950
"Modernist Photography 1910–1950" features approximately 40 American modernist photographs representing highlights from the Museum's own collection as...
Kristin Baker
New Paintings
"[The paintings] dispense with figurative elements altogether, hitting the eye instead as dazzling constructions of abstract color and shape, as well as focused experiments in technique."—The Boston Globe