Pre 2003

1999-2002 | 1995-1998 | 1990-1994 | 1985-1989 | 1980-1984

1999-2002
December 2–December 18, 2002 2002 AIDS Day	September 27–December 8, 2002 The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz
June 11–June 23, 2002 Ethnography and Desire: Video Installations by Daniel Peltz	May 24–June 23, 2002 Kali: The Goddess of the Millennium
April 19–June 23, 2002 Fazal Sheikh: The Victor Weeps • A Camel for the Son • Ramadan Moon • Simpatia	April 19–May 26, 2002 In the Alchemist's Kitchen
April 5–May 5, 2002 MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory and Practice	March 15 –March 24, 2002 9/11: Visions, Sounds and Words, Evanston Township High School Students
February 1–March 31, 2002 Adja Yunkers: To Invent a Garden	February 1–March 31, 2002 Jacob Lawrence: Prints from the Series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
January 1–March 17, 2002 Portal (2nd showing)	January 11–February 24, 2002 selfportrait.map: LoCurto/Outcault
2001 NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom	November 9, 2001–January 13, 2002 Hiratsuka Un'ichi: Color Woodblock Prints
September 29–December 9, 2001 Pastime: An Installation by Molly Davies	September 29–October 28, 2001 Vera Klement: Drawings
September 22–December 9, 2001 Prints by Sculptors: The Rudolph H. And Fannia Weingartner Collection at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art	September 21–October 28, 2001 College Proofs: The Riverhouse Editions Collection at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
May 27 –June 17, 2001 Pond II	May 18–July 8, 2001 Artists/Alumni: Recent Graduates of the MFA Program of the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University
May 8–June 17, 2001 On European Ground: The Photographs of Alan Cohen	March 17–April 29, 2001 David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions
March 13–April 22, 2001 More Chicago	March 13–April 22, 2001 Chicago's South Side 1946–1948: The Wayne Miller Photographs
January 12–February 18, 2001 Imaging and Imagining Space: A Collaboration Between Art and Science	January 2–March 4, 2001 Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age
November 6–December 10, 2000 Christo and Jeanne–Claude: Work from 1965 to 1998 from a Chicago Private Collection	October–December 10, 2000 Prints from Printworks
September 23–December 10, 2000 Seems: Integrations with the Physical and Social Periphery of the Museum	September 23–December10, 2000 Scratch Studies: New Work by Shawn Decker
September 23–October 15, 2000 Self–Portraits of Lovis Corinth	September 23–October 29, 2000 Theo Leffmann: Weaving a Life into Art
September 23–December 10, 2000 Drawing is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection	September 23–December 10, 2002 Portal

1995-1998
October 2–December 2, 1998 Rapture: At the Interface Between Love and Disease	May 21–August 9, 1998 The Living Tradition in Africa and the Americas: The Photographs of Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits
January 8–March 1, 1998 Narrative and Abstraction in 20th Century Photography: Works by W. Eugene Smith and Alan Cohen from the Block Museum Collection	September 19–December 7, 1997 Henry Simon, 1901–1995
April 17–June 22, 1997 William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture	April 17–June 22, 1997 Frankisek Drtikol: A Retrospective
January 17–March 9, 1997 Rudolf Koppitz: Viennese "Master of the Camera"	September 27–December 8, 1996 Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago, 1935–1995
July 12–August 10, 1996 Bert Van Bork: Prints and Watercolors	April 19–June 16, 1996 Emigrants and Exiles: A Lost Generation of Austrian Artists in America, 1920–1950
January 12–March 3, 1996 Unpainted to the Last: Moby Dick and Twentieth Century American Art, 1930–1990	September 22–December 3, 1995 Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960–1990
May 21–June 18, 1995 The Many Faces of Wenceslaus Hollar: Seventeenth Century Prints from the Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam	January 13–March 5, 1995 Dabloids and Elephants: Leonid Tishkov Creatures

1990-1994
September 22–December 4, 1994 Displacements: South African Works on Paper, 1984–1994	May 12–June 19, 1994 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Depression–Era Prints from the Collection of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
January 14–March 30, 1994 Stark Impressions, Graphic Production in Germany, 1918–1933	September 24–December 5, 1993 Fluxus: A Conceptual Country
May 7–June 27, 1993 Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540–1640	April 25–May 4, 1993 Sculpture and Drawings by Carol Kreeger Davidson, 1983–1993
May 15–May 16, 1993 From the Border	March 13–April 18, 1993 Constantin Brancusi: The Photographs
January 14–March 4, 1993 Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now	September 24–December 4, 1992 The American Print: Originality and Experimentation, 1790–1890
July 10–August 15, 1992 Pacific Parallels: Artists and the Landscape in New Zealand, 1840–1990	May 1–June 27, 1992 My Own Futurism: The Drawings of Fortunato Depero
January 18–April 5, 1992 Thinking Modern: Painting in Chicago 1910–1940	November 7–December 15, 1991 Modernist Abstraction in American Prints
September 5–October 20, 1991 Line of Light and Shadow: The Drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca	July 11–August 17, 1991 The Drawings of Pietro Lazzari
April 5–June 22, 1991 The Modernist Tradition in American Watercolors, 1911–1939	January 11–March 10, 1991 Jakob Ignaz hittorff, 1762 – 1867: German of Paris
September 25–November 19, 1990 Secessionism and Austrian Graphic Art 1900 – 1920: From the Collection of the Neue Galleria der Stadt Linz	July 19–August 26, 1990 Art at the Big Ten: Paintings and Drawings
May 10–June 24, 1990 A Different War: Vietnam in Art	March 8–May 12, 1990 Heritage of the Brush: Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting
January 11–February 22, 1990 Northwestern Collects: 1985–1989

1985-1989
September 21–November 22, 1989 Wild Spirits and Strong Medicine: African Art and Nature	July 6–August 20, 1989 American Screenprints The Depths of Superficiality: Andy Warhol's Screenprints
April 6–June 18, 1989 Abstract Options	January 12–March 5, 1989 Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston
October 27–December 18, 1988 Brucke: German Expressionist Prints from the Granvil and Marcia Specks Collection	September 8–October 16, 1988 ArtIsrael 1988
July 7–August 21, 1988 David Giese: The Rise and Fall of Taste Jiri Anderle: A Selection from the Werksman Collection	April 7–June 5, 1988 Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America
January 14–March 30, 1988 Landscape Drawings from Five Centuries, 1400–1900: From the Robert Lehman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art	October 2–December 13, 1987 A Collection Rediscovered: European Paintings from the Tweed Museum of Art
June 19–August 9, 1987 The Photographs of Josef Albers: A Selection from the Collection of the Josef Albers Foundation German Photography of the 20s and 30s from Chicago Collections	March 19–May 31, 1987 Indian Miniatures from the Ehrenfeld Collection
January 16–March 1, 1987 Architects' Drawings from the Collection of Barbara Pine	October 24–December 14, 1986 American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors
August 29–October 12, 1986 Exploration of a Medium: The Polaroid Collection	June 12–August 10, 1986 Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection
April 18–June 1, 1986 British Watercolors: Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art	January 24–March 30, 1986 Painting at Northwestern: Conger, Paschke, Valerio
November 1–December 22, 1985 Picture Taking: Weegee Walker Evans, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe	July 5–October 6, 1985 American Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
May 16–July 7, 1985 The 39th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting	January 24–March 24, 1985 Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass

1980-1984

November 16–December 30, 1984 All Seasons and Every Light: Nineteenth Century American Paintings of the Hudson River School Lay of the Land: 20th Century Landscape Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection	September 28–October 28, 1984 Old Master Drawings from the Feitelson Collection Master Drawings from the Collection of Northwestern University
August 3–September 19, 1984 Fifty Years of Babar	May 18–July 15, 1984 La Vie Moderne: 19th Century French Painting from the Corcoran Museum
March 9–May 219, 1984 Frank Stella Prints: 1967–1982	December 9, 1983–February 19, 1984 Discoveries from Kurdish Looms
October 14–November 20, 1983 Irish Silver: From the Collection of the National Museum of Ireland	July 29–September 18, 1983 Forgotten Dimension: A Survey of Small Sculpture in California Now
March 23–July 3, 1983 The Sara Roby Foundation Collection	January 27–March 6, 1983 Collaborations: Artists and Architects
November 17, 1982–January 15, 1983 Chinese Ceramics from Chicago Collections	December 1, 1982 –January 3, 1983 Hans Hoffman: Colorist in Black and White
September 15–October 24, 1982 Treasures of the Royal Photographic Society	July 8–August 22, 1982 Images of Landscape
April 15, 1982–June 20, 1982 Musical Manuscripts	April 15–June 20, 1982 Circa 1800: The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking, 1775 – 1835
March 12–April 4, 1982 Pavlova!	January 15–February 28, 1982 Recollections: Ten Women of Photography
December 8, 1981–January 3, 1982 Master Drawings Rediscovered	October 14–November 29, 1981 Exploring Society Photographically
September 1–October 4, 1981 Contemporary Graphics from the Northwestern University Collection: Recent Gifts Designs of the N'debele	July 15–August 16, 1981 Morning Star Quilts: Art of the Plains Indians
May 13–June 28, 1981 Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest	March 19–May 21, 1981 Guy Pene du Bois: Artist about Town
January 16–February 22, 1981 Points of View: The Stereograph in America Jacob Jordaens: Drawings and Prints	December 12, 1980–January 11, 1981 Illinois Partners: III
November 1–December 7, 1980 Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney III The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn	September 28–October 26, 1980 Collaborations
June 5–August 30, 1980 American Art in the Union League Club of Chicago: A Centennial Exhibition	May 2–June 1, 1980 Form and Figure: Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Drawing
April 3–April 27, 1980 Ansel Adams: Photographs of the Southwest	April 3–June 1, 1980 Alderman Boydell's Shakespeare Museum