Past Exhibitions
Sargent, Chase, Cassatt
Master Paintings from a Private Collection
Comprising 23 paintings and works on paper, “Sargent, Chase, and Cassatt: Master Paintings from a Private Collection” makes an excellent complement to...
Americans in Paris, 1860–1900
"When today we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris. When we find it out of Paris, we at least find a good deal of Paris in it." —Henry...
Laura McPhee
River of No Return
Laura McPhee’s stunning large-scale color photographs juxtapose idealized images of the land against the disarming reality of life in the twenty-first...
On Stage in Osaka
Actor Prints from the MFA Collection
“On Stage in Osaka: Actor Prints from the MFA Collection” includes distinctive prints made during the nineteenth century in Osaka that have never...
David Hockney Portraits
The best-known British artist of his generation, David Hockney portrays friends, family, and lovers—and himself—in works that have become icons of our...
SMFA Traveling Scholars
"SMFA Traveling Scholars" in the Foster Gallery presents recent work by seven graduates of the School. All seven share a passion and dedication to...
Light My Fire
Rock Posters from the Summer of Love
In the spring of 1966, the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore Auditorium, two separate venues near the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco...
Tradition and Transformation
Japanese Art 1860-1940
Immediately following the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry’s “black ships” in 1853, Japan cast aside its self-imposed isolation from the...
Degas to Picasso
Modern Masters
“Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters” is an ambitious, kaleidoscopic survey of European art from 1900 to the 1960s. This unprecedented panorama of...
Facets of Cubism
“This is an art that plays with difficulties and conquers them.”—Guillaume Apollinaire