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DOMINION DERBY GIRLS: Glen McClure, 2009-2010

STRANGER THAN PARADISE: Josephine Haden, 2009

GEORGE MORLAND: Poet of English Country Life, 2009

LABOR AND LEISURE: Works by African-American Artists from the Permanent Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2009

GEORGE CALEB BINGHAM: The Making of The County Election, 2008-2009

EUROPEAN ART IN THE GREAT HALL, 2008-2009

NOBLE SILVER: The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver, 2008-2009

AN ENDURING LEGACY: Paintings Acquired Through the J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art, 2008-2009

UNDER A VIRGINIA SKY: Paintings by Steven Walker, 2008-2009

DEGAS: A Masterpiece in Focus , 2008

POLLOCK, JOHNS, LEWITT, 2008

ANNUNCIATION AND ADORATION: Paolo de’ Matteis, 2008

ONE/OFF PRINTMAKERS: 8 x 10, 2008

LANDSCAPES FROM THE AGE OF IMPRESSIONISM: French and American Paintings from the Brooklyn Museum, 2008

Géricault to Bonnard: Recent Gifts from the Mellon Collection, 2007-2008

Celebrating Paul Mellon, 2007-2008

THE FIRST IMPRESSIONIST: Eugène Boudin, 2007-2008

SPORTING ART IN THE 20th CENTURY, 2007-2008

P-J MÊNE: Sporting Bronzes from the Paul Mellon Collection, 2007-2008

LOOK HERE- Mystery, 2007

Fine Arts and Flowers, 2007

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art, 2007

Rule Britannia!, 2007

Sporting Art in the 20th Century, 2006-2007

Virginia Vistas: Oil Paintings and Watercolors by Ted Turner, 2007

Artificial Light, 2006

Virginia Landscapes: Watercolors by Pierre Daura, 2006

Art á la Carte, 2005

Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection, 2005

The Council: Serving VMFA Since 1955, 2005

Glen McClure: Selections from a Random Portrait of Virginia, 2005

Selections: 20th-century Latin American Art in the VMFA Collection / Seleccíones: Arte Latinoamericano del Siglo 20 en la Coleccion VMFA, 2004-2005

Albrecht Dürer: A Renaissance Journey in Print, 2004-2005

STORIES OF PASSION AND ART: Courbet, Van Gogh, Warhol + Friends, 2004

Bonjour Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Van Gogh and Gauguin: An Artistic Dialogue in the South of France
Best Friends: Portraits of Sydney and Frances Lewis

Mr. Whistler’s Galleries: Avant-Garde in Victorian London, 2003-2004

robert lazzarini, 2003-2004

The New VMFA: Collecting for the Future, 2003-2004

Generations: African-American Art in the VMFA Collection, 2003

Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Collection, 2003

As Long as the Waters Flow: Native Americans in the South and East, 2003

Celebrating Art Nouveau: The Kreuzer Collection, 2002-2003

‘Gone Away’: Gifts from the Estate of Paul Mellon , 2002

2100 Colonial Avenue: Photographs by Glen McClure and Southern Storefronts: Transient Time, Photographs by Jim Knipe, 2002

Outer & Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts, 2002

A Golden Legacy: Fifty Years of the Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund , 2002

Worlds of Wonder and Desire: Indian Paintings from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2001-2002

Richard Roth, Grief: A Collection, 2001

Print Matters: New Works and Modern Treasures , 2001

Nature Leashed and Unleashed: Barye and 19th-Century Animal Sculptures , 2001

Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection , 2001

Martin Puryear , 2001

Landscapes Transformed: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, 2000-2001

Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape , 2000

John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family, 2000

Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art , 2000

George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon- A Memorial Exhibition , 2000

The Actor's Image: The Japan-Virginia Society Collection of Ukiyo-e Prints, 2000

God, Refuge, and Protector: Images of Vishnu, 1999-2000

Faces, 1999-2000

Egyptomania in Greece and Rome, 1999-2000

Splendors of Ancient Egypt, 1999

Meissen Porcelain: Selections from the Margaret M. and Arthur J. Mourot Collection, 1999

"Fiery Steeds": French Romantic Studies by Carle Vernet from the Ritzenberg Collection , 1998-1999

From the Looms of India: Textiles from the Permanent Collection , 1998-1999

Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts , 1998-1999

India: A Celebration of Independence, 1947–1997 , 1998

Gabriele Münter: The Years of Expressionism, 1903-1920, 1998

Cho Duck Hyun: Memories of the 20th Century, 1998

Hallowed Ground: Preserving America's Heritage, 1998

Art of the Ancient Americas: Body and Soul Transformed, 1998

William Blake: Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1997-1998

American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection, 1997-1998

God, Hero, and Lover: Representations of Krishna in Indian Painting, 1997-1998

Adornment for Eternity: Chinese Jewelry through the Ages, 1997

Masterpieces in Little: Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1997