Past Exhibitions

1. 

   All School Exhibition

   The annual all school exhibition features work by student artists from across our community, in kindergarten through twelfth grades. This exhibit celebrates Youth Art Month and has been a staple of our exhibition schedule since 1932.

2. 

   Anders Zorn: Etchings

   At the end of the 19th century, Anders Leonard Zorn (1860-1920) was one of the most well-known portraitists in France, England, and the United States. His talent, and knack for meeting the right people, led him to paint portraits of international celebrities including three U.S. Presidents, Swedish royalty, American railroad tycoons, and renowned artists. This exhibition will present all 96 etchings from the Museum’s permanent collection, showcasing the full collection for the first time in many years.

3. 

   Randy Bacon: The Road I Call Home

   This exhibit features 45 large-scale portraits of homeless individuals from our community taken by local photographer Randy Bacon. Each portrait includes a personal narrative detailing the portrait subject's unique circumstances leading to their homelessness.

4. 

   Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence

   This traveling exhibition presents a spectacular overview of a new form of bead art, the "ndwango" (cloth), developed by a community of women living and working together in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The exhibition was developed by the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum and is organized for tour by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C.

5. 

   Art in our City

   This exhibition highlights and celebrates the creativity of our community focusing on artists living and working in the many neighborhoods that make up our city.

6. 

   Watercolor USA 2019

   The 58th annual juried exhibition featuring the best in contemporary American watermedia.

7. 

   Nick Cave

   This exhibition features a selection of work by multi-disciplinary artist Nick Cave including pieces from his "Soundsuit" series, "Tondo" series, and the video "Drive-By."

8. 

   El Grabado: Contemporary Cuban Printmaking

   An exhibition of over 70 prints by thirty-three Cuban artists who have all worked, at one time or another, at the Taller Experimental de Gráfica de Habana – the oldest, continuously running print workshop in Cuba. This exhibition is pulled entirely from the collection of the Racela Educational and Charitable Foundation.

9. 

   Decades: 90 Years of Collecting

   This exhibition explores the history and growth of the Museum's permanent collection in celebration of the Museum's 90th Anniversary.

10. 

    Four by Four 2018

    This biennial invitational exhibition recognizes and encourages artists working in all media in the four-state region of Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas.

11. 

    Frolic of the Mind

    This exhibition traces the prolific career of artist, illustrator, author, poet, and inventor Rose O'Neill. Perhaps most remembered as the creator of the Kewpie doll, O'Neill was also one of the highest paid illustrators in the early years of the 20th century providing illustrations for Puck Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Collier's, and many others.

12. 

    Watercolor USA 2018

    The 57th annual presentation of Watercolor USA, a national, juried exhibition recognizing aqueous media painting.

13. 

    All School Exhibition

    The annual all school exhibition features work by student artists from across our community, in kindergarten through twelfth grades. This exhibit celebrates Youth Art Month and has been a staple of our exhibition schedule for over forty years.

14. 

    Grant Wood: Lithographs

    An exhibit featuring all nineteen lithographs produced by Grant Wood.

15. 

    Richard Tuttle: Lines and Edges

    An exhibit featuring three significant portfolios created by artist Richard Tuttle, pulled from the Museum's permanent collection.

16. 

    Wonder Rooms: Ozark Collections

    A special exhibition featuring a wide variety of work pulled from ten local and regional private collections.

17. 

    Veterans' Views

    This juried exhibition highlights photographs taken by members of our nation's armed services and relating to their military experience. The exhibit is organized by the Springfield Art Museum in collaboration with Drury University.

18. 

    Watercolor USA 2017

    Organized in 1962 by the Springfield Art Museum, this event aims to attract the best in contemporary American watermedia and strives to exhibit work by artists who are pushing the boundaries of the medium.

19. 

    American Impressionism

    This exhibit features over 100 paintings and works on paper from the golden age of American Impressionism including work by William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Julian Alden Weir and Mary Cassatt

20. 

    The Wood-Fired Kiln: A Catalyst for Collaboration

    This exhibit will include the work of seven well-known local, regional, national and international ceramicists: Nina Hole, Priscilla Mouritzen, Rick Hirsch, Ken Baskin, Scott Meyer, Keith Ekstam and Jeff Johnston. The exhibit will focus specifically on work that has been created using a wood-fire kiln and will investigate the character and dynamic of the collaborations that have resulted from this very communal and social process.

21. 

    Four by Four 2016: Midwest Invitational

    The biennial "Four by Four 2016: Midwest Invitational Exhibition" recognizes and encourages artists working in all media who reside in the four-state region of Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas. The exhibit features work by four artists - one from each state - who will each exhibit a body of work.

22. 

    Donald Holden: Memory Painter

    A selection of small landscape paintings created by artist Donald Holden. Holden works primarily in watercolor and uses broad simple brushstrokes to convey evocative paintings from his travels pulled solely from his memory of place.

23. 

    Watercolor USA 2016

    The Museum's annual, national juried exhibition recognizing contemporary aqueous media painting.

24. 

    Warhol Uncanned

    An exhibit of seven photographs by Colorado artist Lindsey Wohlman, inspired by Andy Warhol's "Campbell Soup Cans."

25. 

    String Theory

    Throughout time and over various cultures, humans have used fibers in similar ways to construct a variety of objects. Utilizing objects from the Museum's permanent collection, this exhibit will explore a number of basic textile construction techniques and highlight the versatility of working in the fiber arts.

26. 

    British/American Pop

    An exhibit comparing Pop Art in Britain and America

27. 

    Watercolor NOW

    An invitational exhibit of work submitted by members of the Watercolor USA Honor Society.

28. 

    Kara Walker

    An exhibit of work by Kara Walker including large-scale printmaking, metal sculpture, shadow puppetry and film.

29. 

    House of Art(S)

    An outdoor, site specific public art installation constructed of graffiti panels.

30. 

    Adolf Dehn

    This exhibit explores the work of Adolf Dehn, through both watercolor and lithography.

31. 

    Susi Steinitz Ettinger

    A retrospective exhibition on German-born artist Susi Steinitz Ettinger.

32. 

    Four by Four 2014

    A biennial, invitational exhibition recognizing artists working in all media in the four-state region of Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas.

33. 

    About Face: Portraits

    The second in a series of exhibits exploring the Museum's extensive collection of contemporary American watermedia.

34. 

    Glazed Over

    Learn more about the exhibition, Glazed Over, find out where in the museum it's located and how long it will be featured.

35. 

    Into the West

    An exhibit featuring Western and Southwestern art, pulled from the Gertrude Vanderveer Spratlen Collection.