Terra Museum of American Art Exhibition History


Daniel J. Terra with Frederic Edwin Church’s 1861 painting Our Banner in the Sky, at the original Terra Museum of American Art, in Evanston, IL.

Charged by the Terra Foundation for the Arts with exhibiting and interpreting original works of American art, the museum opened to the public in 1980. During its tenure, the museum presented more than 200 exhibitions on American art and provided related programs and events for schoolchildren, teachers, families, general adult audiences, and scholars. After 24 years of operation, the Terra Museum of American Art closed on October 31, 2004.

Terra Museum of American Art (Evanston, Illinois) Complete Exhibition History, 1980–1987

American Impressionism
May 17–June 28, 1980
Catalogue published
Organized by the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Henry Farrer Watercolors
July 6–July 25, 1980
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Treasures from the Hirshhorn
July 29–September 30, 1980
Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and the Terra Museum of American Art

Important Western Art from Chicago Collections
November 5–December 14, 1980
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

A Mirror of Creation: 150 Years of American Nature Painting
December 20, 1980–March 15, 1981
Catalogue published
Organized by the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy

Five American Masters of Watercolor
May 5–July 12, 1981
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Life in 19th-Century America: An Exhibition of American Genre Painting
September 11–November 15, 1981
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
December 19, 1981–March 14, 1982
Catalogue title: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

The Boston Tradition: Two Hundred Years of American Paintings, 1720–1920
March 27–June 30, 1982
Catalogue title: The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

American Masters of the Twentieth Century
July 11–September 15, 1982
Organized by the Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (now the Oklahoma City Art Museum) and the Terra Museum of American Art

Solitude: Inner Visions in American Art
September 25–December 30, 1982
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

An International Episode: Millet, Monet and their North American Counterparts
January 8–February 13, 1983
Catalogue published
Organized by the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee

The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler
February 20–March 27, 1983
Catalogue published
Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC

Early Rebels in American Art
April 1–May 8, 1983
Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

George Bellows: Lithographs
May 14–June 17, 1983
Organized by the Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art)

Stuart Davis: The Formative Years, 1910–1930
May 14–June 17, 1983
Catalogue published
Organized by the Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Two Hundred Years of American Painting from Private Chicago Collections
June 25–September 2, 1983
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Reginald Marsh’s New York
September 10–October 30, 1983
Catalogue published
Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection
November 4–December 7, 1983
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Down Garden Paths: The Floral Environment in American Art
December 13, 1983–February 12, 1984
Catalogue published
Organized by Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

Woman
February 21–April 22, 1984
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Twentieth-Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context
April 29–June 17, 1984
Catalogue published
Organized by the International Exhibition Foundation, Washington, DC

The Preston Morton Collection of American Art: A Selection
June 24–August 19, 1984
Catalogue title: The Preston Morton Collection of American Art
Organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

Pioneers of American Modernism from the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
August 26–October 14, 1984
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the U.S. State Department Exhibition, 1946–48
October 21–December 9, 1984
Catalogue title: Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946–48
Organized by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama

Treasures of the Old West
December 15, 1984–February 3, 1985
Catalogue title: Treasures of the Old West: Paintings and Sculpture from the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
Organized by the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (now the Gilcrease Museum)

Two Centuries of American Folk Painting
February 10–April 21, 1985
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast from the Terra Museum of American Art
April 27–June 30, 1985
Catalogue title: Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast in the Terra Museum of American Art
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Masterworks in American Art from the Daniel J. Terra Collection
April 27–September 12, 1985
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

The Surreal City: 1930s–1950s
July 19–October 13, 1985
Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, New York

Selections from the Permanent Collection
July 19–September 14, 1985
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

The Figure in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 15–November 10, 1985
Catalogue published
Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York and the American Federation of Arts, New York, New York

Order in Space: Precisionist Works by Demuth and Sheeler
November 15, 1985–January 12, 1986
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Amish Quilts from the Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art, New York
November 15, 1985–January 12, 1986
Organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York (now the American Folk Art Museum)

Nineteenth-Century Genre Painting from the Daniel J. Terra Collection
November 15, 1985–January 12, 1986
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

New Acquisitions 1985 from the Daniel J. Terra Collection
November 15, 1985–January 12, 1986
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

The Best of American Illustrations
January 10–March 2, 1986
Catalogue title: The Best of American Illustration: Selections from the Delaware Art Museum
Organized by the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

Art and Collaboration: Gemini G.E.L.
March 7–April 27, 1986
Catalogue title: Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration
Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Little Girls in Red
March 8–April 27, 1986
Organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York (now the American Folk Art Museum)

The New Society of American Artists in Paris: 1908–1912
May 2–June 20, 1986
Catalogue published
Organized by the Queens Museum, Queens, New York

Audubon Works from the Terra Collection
June 27–August 5, 1986
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Liberties with Liberty
August 12–October 26, 1986
Organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York (now the American Folk Art Museum)

Directions in American Painting, 1875–1925: Works from the John McDonough Collection
November 8–December 28, 1986
Catalogue title: Directions in American Painting 1875–1925: Works from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. John J. McDonough
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

American Naive Paintings from the Garbisch Collection
January 4–March 1, 1987
Catalogue title: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art
Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870–1930
March 10–May 10, 1987
Catalogue published
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Terra Museum of American Art (Chicago, Illinois) Complete Exhibition History 1987–2004

A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art
April 21–June 21, 1987
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In Nature’s Ways: American Landscape Painting of the Late Nineteenth Century
September 10–November 1, 1987
Catalogue title: In Nature?s Ways: Landscape Painting of the Late Nineteenth Century
Organized by the Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, Florida (now the Norton Museum of Art)

Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago
September 12–November 15, 1987
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Progressive Geometric Abstraction in America
October 1–November 11, 1987
Catalogue title: Progressive Geometric Abstraction in America, 1934–1955
Organized by the Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (now the Emerson Gallery)

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Americans at Home and Abroad
November 6–November 29, 1987
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art
December 13, 1987–February 14, 1988
Catalogue published
Organized by the Wyeth family and the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock, 1891–1902
December 13, 1987–February 28, 1988
Catalogue published
Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Terra Museum of American Art

Young America: A Folk Art History
February 28–April 24, 1988
Catalogue title: Young America: A Folk-Art History
Organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York (now the American Folk Art Museum)

An American Revelation: The Daniel J. Terra Collection
February 28–October 1, 1988
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Audubon Exhibition Series
February 1988–October 1989
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

¡Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III
December 3, 1988–January 29, 1989
Catalogue published Organized by Sosa & Associates, San Antonio, Texas

Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America
February 4–April 2, 1989
Catalogue published
Organized by the Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art)

From the Collection of Herbert & Dorothy Vogel
April 8–June 4, 1989
Catalogue title: From the Collection of Dorothy & Herbert Vogel
Organized by the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri (now Mid America Arts Alliance & Exhibits USA).

American Painters in France: 1830–1930
June 14–September 3, 1989
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Selections from the Permanent Collection
September 10–October 29, 1989
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Training the Hand and Eye: American Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
September 9–November 5, 1989
Organized by Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, New York (now the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution) and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC

Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
November 14, 1989–January 7, 1990
Catalogue title: Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Organized by the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming

Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions
January 23–March 11, 1990
Catalogue title: Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions; An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940–1965
Organized by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey

American Paintings from a Century of Collecting: Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
March 17–April 29, 1990
Catalogue title: American Art, American Vision, Paintings: from a Century of Collecting
Organized by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia

From Camera to Canvas: Theodore Robinson’s French Photographs and Paintings
April 24–July 1, 1990
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

American Photography: 1839–1900
May 5–July 8, 1990
Organized by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York (now George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography and Film)

Morgan Russell: A Retrospective
July 10–September 2, 1990
Catalogue title: Morgan Russell
Organized by the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

Permanent Collection
September 11–October 14, 1990
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Winslow Homer in Gloucester
October 20–December 30, 1990
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout’s Neck Observed
November 17, 1990–January 13, 1991
Catalogue published
Organized by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Gertrude Stein: The American Connection
January 12–March 10, 1991
Catalogue published
Organized by the Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, New York

The Levy-Franks Family Colonial Portraits
March 7–May 12, 1991
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts with the American Jewish Historical Society, New York, New York

The Work of Charles and Maurice Prendergast
March 16–April 21, 1991
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

African-American Artists, 1880–1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
April 27–June 9, 1991
Catalogue published
Organized by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC

An American Collection: Paintings and Sculpture from the National Academy of Design
May 18–July 14, 1991
Catalogue published
Organized by National Academy of Design, New York, New York

John La Farge: Watercolors and Drawings
June 15–August 11, 1991
Catalogue published
Organized by Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum Collection
September 21–November 10, 1991
Catalogue title: To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum
Organized by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia

American Originals: Selections from Reynolda House, Museum of American Art
November 23, 1991–January 19, 1992
Catalogue published
Organized by the American Federation of Arts, New York, New York

Of Time and the City: American Modernism from the Sheldon Memorial Art Museum
January 25–May 22, 1992
Catalogue title: Of Time and the City: American Modernism from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Organized by the American Federation of Arts, New York, New York

Abstract Sculpture in America, 1930–70
April 7–June 7, 1992
Catalogue published
Organized by the American Federation of Arts, New York, New York

Richmond Barthé/Richard Hunt: Two Sculptors, Two Eras
June 16–August 9, 1992
Catalogue published
Organized by Landau/Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California

Santos de Palo: The Household Saints of Puerto Rico
August 19–October 18, 1992
Catalogue published
Organized by Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York (now the American Folk Art Museum)

Selections from the Collections
October 23–December 6, 1992
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

The Amazing Continuity: The Drawings of Stuart Davis
December 12, 1992–February 7, 1993
Catalogue title: The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity
Organized by the American Federation of Arts, New York, New York

Theme and Improvisation: Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde, 1912–1950
February 13–April 25, 1993
Catalogue published
Organized by the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

American Abstraction from the Addison Gallery of American Art
May 15–July 30, 1993
Catalogue title: American Abstraction at the Addison
Organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts and the American Federation of Arts, New York, New York

The Fair View: Representations of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
August 21–October 17, 1993
Organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan with the University’s Department of the History of Art

The World of Lois Mailou Jones
October 23, 1993–January 9, 1994
Catalogue published Organized by Meridian International Center, Washington, DC

American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design
January 22–March 20, 1994
Catalogue published
Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Reclamation and Transformation: Three Self-Taught Chicago Artists
April 5–July 31, 1994
Catalogue published Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture
October 8–December 31, 1994
Catalogue published
Organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York (now the American Folk Art Museum)

Face to Face: Portraits from the Collections of Terra Museum of American Art
October 8, 1994–April 2, 1995
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Ship, Sea and Sky: The Marine Art of James Edward Buttersworth
January 10–April 2, 1995
Catalogue published
Organized by the South Street Seaport Museum, New York, New York

Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy
April 15–June 25, 1995
Catalogue published
Organized by the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC

Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist 
July 1–September 24, 1995
Catalogue published
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

“Dictated by Life”: Marsden Hartley’s German Paintings and Robert Indiana’s Hartley Elegies
July 8–September 17, 1995
Catalogue published
Organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Attitudes toward Nature
September 30, 1995 –April 21, 1996
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

In the Eye of the Storm: An Art of Conscience, 1930–1970—Selections from the Collection of Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller
October 28, 1995–January 7, 1996
Catalogue title: In the Eye of the Storm: An Art of Conscience, 1930–1970; Selections from the Collection of Philip J. & Suzanne Schiller
Organized by the American Federation of Arts, New York, New York

Across Continents and Cultures: The Art and Life of Henry Ossawa Tanner
January 13–April 28, 1996
Catalogue published
Organized by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

American Treasures: Chase, Whistler and the Prendergasts
April 26, 1996–January 5, 1997
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

A Shared Heritage: Four African-American Artists
May 11–July 7, 1997
Catalogue title: A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans
Organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Visions of a Nation: Exploring Identity through American Art
August 10, 1996–January 12, 1997
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital
January 17–March 30, 1997
Catalogue published
Organized by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri

Domestic Bliss: Family Life in America
April 12–June 22, 1997
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Selected Works from the Collections: Two Hundred Years of American Art
April 12–August 27
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

N.C. Wyeth and his Grandson: A Legacy
June 28–October 26, 1997
Organized by the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America
September 5–November 9, 1997
Catalogue published
Organized by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, DC

American Artists and the Paris Experience, 1880–1910
November 22, 1997–March 8, 1998
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

William H. Johnson: Truth Be Told
March 10–May 3, 1998
Catalogue published
Organized by Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1998: New Artists in Chicago
May 6–July 19, 1998
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, Illinois

Christian Boltanski: Favorite Objects
May 8–May 31, 1998
Organized by Christian Boltanski with the Lycée Français de Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

All Things Bright and Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from the Irvine Museum
July 25–September 27, 1998
Catalogue published
Organized by the National Academy Museum, New York, New York (now the National Academy of Design Museum) and the Irvine Museum, Irvine, California

Robert Capa: Photographs
October 9, 1998–January 3, 1999
Catalogue published
Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Aperture, New York, New York

American Masters: Sculpture from Brookgreen Gardens
January 16–April 18, 1999
Catalogue published
Organized by Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement
May 8–July 4, 1999
Catalogue published
Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

American Photographs: The First Century, from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art
July 16–September 26, 1999
Catalogue published
Organized by the National Museum of American Art (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, DC

Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts
October 9, 1999–January 2, 2000
Catalogue title: Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts
Organized by the American Federation for the Arts, New York, New York

The City and the Country: American Perspectives, 1870–1920
December 10, 1999–May 7, 2000
Catalogue published
Organized by Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny, France

Outsider and Folk Art from Chicago Collections
January 15–May 28, 2000
Catalogue title: Art Outsider et Folk Art des Collections de Chicago
Organized by the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France

Figures and Forms: Selections from the Terra Foundation for the Arts
May 11–July 9, 2000
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality
June 24–September 17, 2000
Catalogue published
Organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, DC, with the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi

In Search of the Promised Land: Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church
August 5–October 1, 2000
Catalogue published
Organized by Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, New York

Indivisible: Stories of American Community
October 6–November 26, 2000
Catalogue title: Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible
Organized by the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Our Town: Chicago in the Year 2000
October 6–November 26, 2000
Organized by CITY 2000, Chicago, Illinois (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago) and the Terra Museum of American Art

First Exposure: The Sketchbooks and Photographs of Theodore Robinson
October 14–December 31, 2000
Catalogue published
Organized by the Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny, France

New Faces, New Places: Recent Additions to the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection
October 14–December 31, 2000
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Art and Nature: The Hudson River School
December 9, 2000–February 11, 2001
Organized by the Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York

On Process: The American Print, Technique Examined
January 13–March 4, 2001
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

On Process: Studio Themes
January 13–March 4, 2001
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent
February 24–May 20, 2001
Catalogue published
Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Two Centuries of American Art
March 10 –July 8, 2001
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Selections from the Permanent Collection: American Artists in France, 1860–1910
March 10–June 3, 2001
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Ships At Sea: Sailing through Summer at the Terra Museum of American Art
June 6–August 26, 2001
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

New York Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive
June 2–August 26, 2001
Catalogue published
Organized by the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Art and Craft, The Work of Charles and Maurice Brazil Prendergast
March 10–October 7, 2001
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Artistic Communities: Mary MacMonnies Low and Frederick MacMonnies in Chicago and Giverny
July 14–October 7, 2001
Catalogue title: An Interlude in Giverny
Organized by the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, and Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny, France

Selections from the Permanent Collection: American Moderns
July 14–October 7, 2001
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 8–November 11, 2001
Catalogue published
Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

America the Beautiful: Landscapes of Home
October 16, 2001–January 13, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

(Re)Presenting Women
October 16, 2001–January 13, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist
December 1, 2001–February 3, 2002
Catalogue published
Organized by the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

Paris and the American Woman
January 18–April 14, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Ambassadors of Progress: American Women Photographers in Paris, 1900–1901
January 26–April 14, 2002
Catalogue published
Organized by the Muséée d’Art Américain, Giverny, France with the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

American Classics: Selections from the Terra Foundation for the Arts
January 26–September 1, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Childe Hassam (1859–1935): Transatlantic Impressions
February 16–April 28, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades
February 16–April 28, 2002
Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Mid-Century Modern: Selections from the Terra Foundation for the Arts
April 20–July 7, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography
April 27–July 7, 2002
Catalogue published Organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

Artistic Independence in 1898: The Ten American Painters
May 4–July 21, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell
May 11–July 21, 2002
Catalogue published
Organized by the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire (now the Currier Museum of Art)

Culture Revisited: Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre”
July 13–November 3, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

From Looms of Earth and Sky: Navajo Weavings from the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
July 20–September 1, 2002
Organized by the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Evanston, Illinois, and the Terra Museum of American Art

The French Experience: American Artists at Giverny
July 27–October 20, 2002
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
August 10–October 20, 2002
Catalogue published Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered
September 10–November 3, 2002
Catalogue published
Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A Place on the Avenue: Terra Museum of American Art Celebrates 15 Years in Chicago
November 2, 2002–February 16, 2003
Catalogue title: An American Point of View: The Daniel J. Terra Collection
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Sargent to Motherwell: Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of American Art
March 1–May 4, 2003
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art with the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

Gallery of the Louvre
March 8, 2003–October 31, 2004
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

En Plein Air: American Painters in Giverny
March 8–May 25, 2003
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

The People Work: American Perspectives, 1840–1940
March 15–May 25, 2003
Catalogue published
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

American Classics from the Collection
May 14–June 15, 2003
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Modern Harmonies: Whistler Reflects on his Art
May 31–August 31, 2003
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

A Rich Simplicity: Folk Art from the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection
June 7–September 21, 2003
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

The Master Prints of Edward S. Curtis: Portraits of Native America
June 7–September 21, 2003
Catalogue title: Edward Curtis: The Master Prints
Organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

Out of the Shadows: Helen Torr, A Retrospective
June 28–August 17, 2003
Catalogue published
Organized by the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York

Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde
August 30–November 30, 2003
Catalogue published
Organized by the American Federation of Arts, New York, New York

Studied Abroad: Painted Impressions from the Collection
September 6–April 4, 2003
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock
October 4, 2003–January 11, 2004
Catalogue published
Organized by the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives
December 13, 2003–February 8, 2004
Catalogue published
Organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

American Classics
December 13, 2003–February 8, 2004
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray
January 24–April 4, 2004
Organized by the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

A Narrative of American Art
February 14–October 31, 2004
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art

Chicago Modern 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New
July 17–October 31, 2004
Organized by the Terra Museum of American Art