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Selected exhibitions at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums.

2007-2008

Annual Student Exhibition
August 23 to September 16, 2007

Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite
August 23 to September 30, 2007

Four Seasons: A Print Series by Jennifer Bartlett
August 23, 2007, to July 13, 2008

Artist at Work: The Art and Commerce of J. J. Lankes
September 28 to December 9, 2007

Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures
October 18, 2007, to February 10, 2008

Publishing Prints: Selections from the Center Street Studio Archives
February 6 to April 9, 2008

2008 Harnett Biennial of American Prints
March 28 to June 6, 2008

George Whitman: Drawn to Nature
March 28 to June 6, 2008

Precisely That: 2008 Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition
April 18 to May 9, 2008

2006-2007

Seen In Solitude: Robert Kipniss Prints from the James F. White Collection
August 24 to September 24

Arise!: A Suite of Prints by Fred Wilson
August 24, 2006 to July 15, 2007

The Space of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad, 1965-1986
September 12 to December 3, 2006

Lasting Impressions: Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
September 27 to December 8, 2006

77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars, 1568-1868
October 12 to December 10, 2006

Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca: Recent Prints and Drawings
January 16 to March 25, 2007

A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie
February 3 to May 18, 2007

Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition
April 17 to May 11, 2006

2005-2006

A Good Day for Painting: The Art of Bernard Chaet
August 24 to October 9, 2005

This Could Be Anywhere, This Could Be Everywhere: Recent Work by Jeremy Drummond
August 24 to October 9, 2005

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
August 24 to September 18, 2005

Margaret Ross Tolbert: Doors
August 24, 2005 to July 16, 2006

Pierre Daura, Catalán-American Modernist: People, Places, and Things
September 28 to December 11, 2005

Icons & Idols:   Jack Mitchell, A Photographer's Chronicle of the Arts, 1960-1995
October 21, 2005, to February 19, 2006

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
January 17 to February 26, 2006

2006 Harnett Biennial of American Prints
March 17 to June 23, 2006

Natural Selection: Landscape Print Portfolio from Center Street Studio
March 24 to June 23, 2006

Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition, Part One
March 21 to April 9, 2006

Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition, Part Two
April 19 to May 12, 2006

2004-2005

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
August 18 to September 19, 2004

Visions from the Soul: The Woodcuts of Hans Friedrich Grohs
August 18 to October 8, 2004

Cuba Plástica: Recent Art from Cuba
August 18 to October 8, 2004

Martha MacLeish: Wall Constructions
August 18 to December 12, 2004

From “The Asphalt Jungle”: Prints and Drawings by Dawn Latané
October 3 to December 5, 2004

New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct
October 26 to December 12, 2004

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
Janusry 11 to February 6, 2005

Then & Now: Dementi Studio Photographs of the University of Richmond
January 21 to July 30, 2005

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Royal House of Stuart, 1688-1788: Works of Art from the Darmbuie Collection
February 5 to May 7, 2005

Rococo to Revolution: European Prints of the Eighteenth Century
February 11 to May 7, 2005

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis: Art Is Long, Life Is Short, Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition, Part One
March 18 to April 10, 2005

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis: Art Is Long, Life Is Short, Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition, Part Two
April 15 to May 6, 2005

2003-2004

Articulated Spaces: Paintings by Creighton Michael
August 20 to December 14, 2003

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
August 20 to December 14, 2003

Tamarind: Forty Years of Lithography
August 20 to December 14, 2003

John Dos Passos and His World
September 26 to December 7, 2003

No Es Fácil, Cuba (It’s Not Easy, Cuba): Contemporary Art from Cuba
October 16 to December 14, 2003

Robert McCall: Celebrating One Hundred Years of Powered Flight
October 16 to December 14, 2003

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
January 13 to February 8, 2004

Janine Wong: Fragments
January 13 to July 24, 2004

9x9: Prints from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s Creative Fellowships
January 23 to February 29, 2004

Get Real: Photorealist Prints from the James W. Hyams Collection
January 23 to March 5, 2004

6th American Print Biennial
March 17 to June 26, 2004


Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie
March 17 to June 26, 2004

Three, Two, One: Senior Thesis Exhibition
March 19 to 28, April 2 to 11, and April 16 to May 2, 2004

2002-2003

True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries before Feminism
August 21 to September 29, 2002

Going with the Flow: Prints by Pat Steir
August 21 to December 15, 2002

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
August 21 to September 15, 2002

Adolph Gottlieb: Monotypes
September 24 to December 8, 2002

The Brotherhood of Free Culture: Recent Art from St. Petersburg, Russia
October 11 to December 15, 2002

Art for the University: New Acquisitions in the University Museums
October 11 to December 15, 2002

Mary Stewart: From the "Learning" Series
January 7 to July 26, 2003

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
January 7 to 31, 2003

Mary Frank: Experiences
January 17 to February 28, 2003

Wrapped Words: Handmade Books from Cuba’s Ediciones Vigía
January 22 to February 23, 2003

Transitions: Recent Photographs by Adrienne Azhderian-Kelly
February 9 to March 12, 2003

Arnold Mesches: Echoes, A Century Survey
March 13 to June 28, 2003

Senior Thesis Exhibition: Parts One and Two
March 20 to April 3, 2003, and April 10 to May 2, 2003

2001 - 2002

Myth and Mirage: The Art of Avel de Knight
August 22 - September 30, 2001

Robert Rauschenberg: From the “Speculations” Series
August 22 - December 16, 2001

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
August 22 - September 16, 2001

Origin Stories: Creation Narratives in Australian Aboriginal Art
September 26 - December 9, 2001

Point of View: American Folk Art from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection
October 12 - December 16, 2001

Christina Ramberg Drawings
October 12 - December 9, 2001

Thomas Weaver: Punchlist
January 8 - July 27, 2002

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
January 8 - 27, 2002

The Power of Thought: The Prints of Jessie Oonark
January 11 – February 24, 2002

Silent History: The Still Lifes of G. Daniel Massad
January 18 - February 24, 2002

Hannelore Baron: Works From 1969 - 1987
February 12 - March 14, 2002

5th American Print Biennial
March 15 - June 29, 2002

Senior Thesis Exhibition, Parts One and Two
March 21 - April 4, and April 11 - May 3, 2002

Machines of the Mind: Sculptures by Lawrence Fane
April 3 - June 29, 2002

2000 - 2001

Simon Dinnerstein: Paintings and Drawings
August 24 – October 8, 2000

James Stroud: Linear Strategies
August 24 - December 17, 2000

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
August 24 - September 23, 2000

Paul Maze (1887-1979): An Impressionist in England
October 4 – December 17, 2000

Animation Art from Walt Disney Studios: The Lucius T. and Jane Scott B. Chapin Collection
October 21 - December 17, 2000

Tanja Softic’: Recent Works on Paper
October 21 - December 17, 2000

David FeBland: Twist and Shout
January 16 - July 28, 2001

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
January 16 - February 9, 2001

Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years
January 19 - March 9, 2001

Nell Blaine: Sensations of Nature
March 22 – June 23, 2001

American Prints from the 1920s and 1930s: Selections from the Permanent Collection
February 20 to March 25, 2001

Stefano della Bella: Baroque Printmaker, The I. Webb Surratt, Jr. Print Collection
March 29 – June 23, 2001

Senior Thesis Exhibition, Parts I & II
April 5 - April 15, and April 26 - May 11, 2001

1999 - 2000

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
August 19 - September 18, 1999

Kendall Shaw: A Life’s Journey in Art
August 19 – October 2, 1999

Selections from the Permanent Collection
October 5 - December 11, 1999

James Nares: Tetragram
August 19 – December 11, 1999

Theresa Pollak and Her Influence: A Centennial Celebration
October 2 – December 11, 1999

Looking at the Visual: Art as Object, Art as Experience
October 16 - December 11, 1999

Erling Sjovold: Recent Paintings
October 16 - December 11, 1999

Joel Carreiro: Parallel Play
January 11 - July 29, 2000

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
January 11 - February 4, 2000

Art in 2 Worlds: The Native American Fine Art Invitational 1983-1997
January 19 – March 3, 2000

Selections from the Permanent Collection
February 15 - April 2, 2000

Millenniual Biennial: National Works on Paper
March 24, June 24, 2000

A Legacy of Discernment: The Felix M. Warburg Print Collection at Vassar College
March 24 - June 24, 2000

Senior Thesis Exhibition
April 13 - May 6, 2000

1998 - 1999

Consuelo Kanaga: An American Photographer
August 21 – September 26, 1998

Art for the University: Gifts in Honor of the 30th Anniversary of the Marsh Art Gallery
August 21 - September 26, 1998

David Headley: Crucible of Colors
August 21 - December 12, 1998

Witness to Our Century: An Artistic Biography of Fritz Eichenberg
September 25 - December 12, 1998

More Than One: Prints and Portfolios from Center Street Studio, Boston
October 16 – December 12, 1998

Lost Russia: Photographs by William Craft Brumfield
October 22 - December 12, 1998

Semi-Annual Student Exhibition
January 12 - 29, 1999

Jackie Battenfield: Four Breaths
January 12 - June 26, 1999

The Art of Twentieth Century Zen: Painting and Calligraphy by Japanese Masters
January 29 - April 17, 1999

Student Designs for Barbizon Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence: The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival XXXI
February 4 - 6, 1999

Religion & Politics: The Renaissance Print in Social Context
February 18 – April 2, 1999

Senoir Thesis Exhibition
April 15 - May 8, 1999

A Covenant of Seasons: Monotypes by Joellyn Duesberry, Poems by PattiAnn Rogers
April 21 – June 26, 1999

1997 - 1998

Personal Visions: 101 Photographs by 101 Photographers
August 22 – October 4, 1997

Selections from the Permanent Collection
August 22 - October 4, 1997

Circa 1914: The Gothic Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram
September 26, 1997 – January 31, 1998

Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages
October 17 – December 13, 1997

Beatrice Riese: Recent Drawings
January 13 - March 6, 1998

Anthony Panzera: The Big Picture, Life-Size Scrolls and Drawings
January 28 - March 6, 1998

Interiors: Recent Paintings By Duane Keiser
February 26 - April 4, 1998

What’s So Funny?: National Works on Paper Biennial
March 20 - May 16, 1998

Art of the Scholar-Poets: Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
April 1 - May 16, 1998

Annual Juried Student Exhibition
April 15 - 30, 1998

Bright Fields of Color: Art by Six Mexican Huichol Indian Artists
May 28 - June 27, 1998

1996 - 1997

Gemini G.E.L.: Recent Prints and Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art
October 4 - December 8, 1996

Form Over Function: Late 20th-Century Furniture from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection
October 4 – December 8, 1996

Seeing Across Cultures: Objects from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art
October 4, 1996 – January 19, 1997

Still Life: The Object in American Art 1915-1995: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 3 – February 28, 1997

Contemplating the Obvious: Photographic Studies by Susan Eder
February 26 - April 6, 1997

Pygmalion and Galatea: Poem/Sculpture/Installation by Mark Rhodes
March 27 – June 28, 1997

Looking at the Seventies: The Meyer Schapiro Portfolio from the I. Webb Surratt, Jr. Print Collection
March 27 - June 29, 1997

Michael Collins: Senior Thesis Exhibition
April 16 - June 8, 1997

Annual Juried Student Exhibition
April 16 - May 1, 1997

1995-1996

Video Art: The First 25 Years
September 20 - November 5, 1995

Van McElwee: Reconstructions, The Video Image Outside of Time
November 8 - December 17, 1995

Howard Ben Tré: Recent Sculpture
January 23 – March 3, 1996

National Works on Paper: Artists Listen to the Earth
March 21 - April 14, 1996

Annual Juried Student Show
April 19 - May 2, 1996

1994 - 1995

Michael McCurdy: Words into Images
June 10 - July 31, 1994

Mark Rothko: The Spirit of Myth, Early Paintings from the 1930s and 1940s
August 12 - September 4, 1994

Recent Acquisitions
August 12 - September 11, 1994

Dream, Myth, and Reaity: Contemporary Art from Senegal
September 16 - October 30, 1994

Daniel Serra-Badué: Dreamt Reality
November 4 - December 16, 1994

Repicturing Abstraction: The Abducted Image
January 20 – February 26, 1995

Haiga: Tatebe Socho and the Haiku-Painting Tradition
March 3 – April 16, 1995

Anual Juried Student Exhibition
April 21 - May 5, 1995

1993 - 1994

José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913): Printmaker to the Mexican People
June 25 - September 5, 1993

Energy, Emotion, Expression: Prints and Drawings of “Big Al” Carter
July 10 - October 3, 1993

Jackie Battenfield: Mizu, The Sound of Water
September 10 – October 3, 1993

Larry Zox: Recent Painting
Ocotober 8 – November 12, 1993

Janice Knipe: Plein-Air Drawing
November 17, 1993 - January 23, 1994

Barry Spann: Twenty-Seven Landscapes
November 17, 1993 - January 23, 1994

Ephraim Rubenstein: The Rilke Series
January 28 – February 27, 1994

Ukiyo-e: Japanese Prints of the Floating World
March 3 - April 17, 1994

J. J. Lankes (1884-1960): Woodcuts of Rural America
March 5 - April 17, 1994

Annual Juried Student Exhibition
April 22 - May 6, 1994

Senior Art Majors Exhibition
May 13 - June 5, 1994

1992 - 1993

Hermann Heller (1866-1949): Artist, Anatomist, Mariner
June 5 - September 6, 1992

Recent Acquisitions
August 14 - September 6, 1992

Doug Ohlson: Recent Paintings
September 11 – October 4, 1992

Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegies
October 6 - November 8, 1992

Lilian Lampert: Drawings and Paintings
October 9 - November 8, 1992

The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing
November 13, 1992 - January 10, 1993

Josef Albers: Formulation: Articulation
January 13 - March 7, 1993

Charles Ritchie: The Interior Landscape
January 15 – March 7, 1993

Inuit Art from Pangnirtung
March 19 - April 11, 1993

Annual Juried Student Exhibition
April 16 - 30, 1993

Faculty Exhibition
May 7 - June 20, 1993

1991 - 1992

Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Depression Years 1935-41
August 27 - October 6, 1991

Laura Shechter: Recent Oils, Watercolors, and Drawings
September 6 - October 6, 1991

Helaman Ferguson: Theorems in Stone and Bronze
October 11 - November 10, 1991

George Whitman: The “Goblin Market” Drawings
October 11 - November 10, 1991

Ray Ciarrochi: Landscapes 1978-91, Paintings from the De La Burdé Collection
November 15 – December 15, 1991

Isaac J. Sanger: Prints 1929-76
January 7 - February 9, 1992

Builder Levy: Images of Appalachian Coalfields
January 10 - February 6, 1992

David Dodge Lewis: Drawing from Eight Series
February 21 - March 11, 1992

National Works on Paper
March 20 - April 12, 1992

Annual Juried Student Exhibition
April 17 - May 1, 1992

Drawing in Virginia: Artists Who Teach
May 8 - May 31, 1992

1990 - 1991

Jane Wilson: Landscape and Still Life 1960-90
September 5 - October 3, 1990

Mercié in Context: The French Academic Tradition in American Public Sculpture
October 10 - November 7, 1990

Valerie Moylan: Painting
November 13 - December 9, 1990

Mark Rhodes: Recent Sculpture
January 11 - February 7, 1991

Anderson Johnson: Folk Artist with a Mission
January 11 - February 7, 1991

Voyaging: William Bennett and Elizabeth Schoyer
February 14 - March 7, 1991

Ephraim Rubenstein
March 21 - April 15, 1991

Annual Juried Student Exhibition
April 19 - May 2, 1991

1989 - 1990

George Tooker: Paintings and Working Drawings 1947 - 1988
September 6 - 27, 1989

1988 - 1989

1987 - 1988

1986 - 1987

Moral Visions: Jerome Witkin
September 4 - 25, 1986

1985 - 1986

Street Journals: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Robert Birmelin
September 5 - 29, 1985