Past and Present Exhibitions

William H. Johnson: An American Modern

An ink and gouache drawing on blue paper of a rocky coast by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Water Music

An oil painting of Venice by William Stanley Haseltine, with boats in the foreground and the city in the background

Americans in Italy

Detail of a brightly colored embroidered Yoruba vest, with images in red, green, blue, and yellow

From Savanna to Savannah: African Art from the Collection of Don Kole

Detail of an abstract collage of layered paper by Minna Citron that features a large black shape that looks like a backwards P in the center

Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction

A detail of an abstract painting by John Haley called "Orange and Blue." It does feature those colors prominently, with a big splash of blue on the left and a number of smaller orange rectangular shapes throughout, but it also features other colors of rectangles and other shapes.

John Haley: Berkeley School Abstract Expressionist

A detail of a drawing by Jack Davis of Abraham Lincoln, sitting at a desk, and holding his head with his thumb and index finger of his left hand, as though he's having a hard time processing information

Beyond the Bulldog: Jack Davis

Close-up detail of a piece of eye jewelry, a gold-framed pendant with details in blue that features a close-up painting of a woman's blue eye

The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection

A detail of a relief sculpture of Hermes

Object in Focus: The Orpheus Relief Project

A color photograph of a large, circular, red sculpture by light and space artist DeWain Valentine, installed at the museum

De Wain Valentine: Human Scale

A detail of George Beattie's mural of the cotton gin in use. Two white landowners in top hats inspect the ginned cotton, surrounded by Black laborers hard at work.

George Beattie’s Agriculture Murals

Defiant Beauty: The Works of Chakaia Booker