1985

Walt Kuhn
January 19 - March 3, 1985

Paper Architecture: When Line Takes Form
January 25 - March 5, 1985

Yousef Karsh: A Fifty Year Retrospective
March 16 - April 28, 1985

Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America
May 19 - August 18, 1985

Artquest '85/ The Video Exhibit
June 9 - August 4, 1985

Crayola Dream-makers
June 23 - July 27, 1985

New American Paperworks
September 7 - November 10, 1985

Sojourners: In the Land of the Fast Moving Machines
November 2 - 21, 1985

Sumi E: Student Works
November 5 - December 15, 1985

Minnesota/ Wisconsin lnterface
November 16, 1985 - January 19, 1986

Midwest Impressionist Landscapes, Paintings by Frank Peyraud
November 23, 1985 - January 5, 1986

1986

Art of the Eye: An Exhibition of Vision
January 25- March 30, 1986
      

West '85/ Art and the Law
February 14 - April 6, 1986

Young Herbs amid the Snow: Japan's Traditional Prints in the 20 century
April 6 - 0ctober 19, 1986

Architectural and Urban lnfluences
April 13 - September 21, 1986

The Figure in 20th Century American Art
April 19 - June 15, 1986

Images of Excellence: Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection
June 21 - August 31, 1986

A Summer's Day: Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz
September 6­ – November 16, 1986

Performance in 3-D, Perry Hoberman
October 12-November 2, 1986

The Ancestors: Links Between Worlds
November. 9, 1986 –November 29, 1987

Artquest '86; the Video Exhibit
November14- December 18, 1986

Spectators of Life: John Sloan &. The Eight
December 12, 1986 –February 1,1987

1987

West/ Art and the Law
 February 7 - March 29, 1987

Paper Architecture; When Line Takes Form
February 20- March 29, 1987

Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965 -1985
April 12 - June 7, 1987

Edward S. Curtis: Visions of the Northern Plains
April 12 - ­October 11, 1987

Adolf Dehn; Watercolors
June 21- September 6, 1987

Walter Quirt: Lake Harriet Series
June 21- August 30, 1987

International Art Show for the End of World Hunger
September 13 - November 8, 1987

Portraiture: Selections from the American Collection
October 18, 1987 - September 7, 1988

Tradition/ Transition: Ten Midwest Crafts Artists
November 14, 1987 – ­January 17, 1988

Chinese Painting: Traces of the Brush
December 13, 1987 - September, 11 1988

1988

West Art &.the Law
 February 5- April 3, 1988

American Art Deco
April 24- July 10, 1988

Afterschool Art Student Exhibition
May 2 - June 3, 1988

Three Dynasties of Korean Art
July 24 – October 2, 1988

Minnesota Artists Look Back: 1948-1988
October 16 - December 3, 1988

Bourke-White: A Retrospective
October 16 – December 31, 1988

Drawings by Paul Manship
October 30, 1988 - April 30, 1989

1989

People of the River- People of the Tree:
Change & Continuity in Sepik and Asmat Art
January 15 -March 26, 1989

Paper Architecture
January 20 -March 12, 1989

Spirit Guides: Masks from Minnesota Museum of Art’s Collection
March 5 - October 8,1989

Whistler and his Circle
April 9 -June 25, 1989

Art That Works: Decorative Art of the '80's Crafted in America
April 21- June 16, 1989

The American Landscape: Minnesota Museum of Art and Area Collections
May 7 - November 12, 1989

Art of Walter and Magda Pach
July 7 – September 10, 1989

Art Collecting and Patronage:
Highlights from Minnesota Museum of Art and Twin City Collections
October 1 - November 26, 1989

The Silent Language of Dress  
November 12, 1989 - June 3, 1990

20th Century Venus: Sculpture and Drawings by Gaston La Chaise
December 10, 1989 - January 20, 1990