Past Exhibits
2011-2012
- The Art of the Cross
- Nyame Brown: John Henry's Adventures In a Post Black World
- The Missions of Will Sparks
- The Nature of Collecting: The Early 20th Century Fine Art Collection of Roger Epperson
- Richard Gayton: Recent Watercolors and One Square Mile
- Richard McLean: Master Artist Tribute IX, Horses, Landscapes and Portraits
- River of Words
- The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces
2010-2011
- Pam Glover: A Life in Art
- Lee and Grant
- Gifted Hands: The Fine Art of Craft
- Superbly Independent: Early California Paintings
2009-2010
2008-2009
- Out of This World: Real & Imagined Landscapes of our Solar System
- California in Relief
- William Keith: Mountains of Shadow and Light
- Sacred Mountain: Images of Mt. Diablo and Mr. Fuji
- Bert Monroy: A Digital Artist Paints with Light
2007-2008
- Carl Sammons: California Impressionist Landscapes from the Donna Walsh Sumner Collection
- You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Art Faculty
- Pinturas de Fe: The Retablo Tradition in Mexico & New Mexico
- Footloose in Arcadia: Artists and Authors of Piedmont, 1890 to 1930
- Dreaming In Color: Aboriginal Art from Balgo
- Paper Cuts
2006-2007
- Town and Country: Jessica Dunne and Louis Labrie
- Master Artist Tribute VII Hearst Art Gallery Opens Carlos Villa Retrospective
- Manuel Valencia (1856-1935): California's Native Son
2005-2006
- Playing Around: Toys Designed by Artists
- Touched by Wonder: Ethnographic Objects from the St. Mary's College Permanent Collection
- Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection
- Perceptions in Art and Science: Different Faces Same Truth
- Pressing Matters: 500 Years of Wine in Art
- Living Color: Inside the Outsiders
2004-2005
- Early Days in California: William Keith, John Muir, and Joseph LeConte
- Now and Then - Senior Thesis Exhibition and SMC Alumni Exhibition
- Abstraction: Spirit and Space
- Sandow Birk's Paradiso
- The Holy Art of Imperial Russia
- Keith's Cigar Box and Panel Paintings
- Revelations and Reflections of Self-Taught Artists
- Water, Land and Sky: Rediscovering A.T. DeRome
2003-2004
- Student Art Exhibition
- Art Faculty Exhibition
- Winslow Homer: The Illustrator
- Stephen De Staebler, a Thirty-Year Survey (1973-2003)
- The Legacy of Brother Cornelius
- The Art of Music
- Unbounded Vistas: Artists Interpret the Northern California Landscape
2002-2003
- SMC Student Art Exhibition
- Out of Time: 20th Century Designs for the Future
- Exotica: Plant Portraits from Around the World
- The Mountains of California: New William Keith and John Muir Exhibit (L)
2001-2002
- Kenro Izu: Light Over Ancient Angkor
- Women to Women: Weaving Cultures, Shaping History
- William Wolff: Printmaker *
- The Teacher as Artist
- Early Artists of the Bohemian Club * (L)
- Kuna Mola: Maintaining Tradition Amid Change
2000-2001
- Instruments for a New Navigation: Sculpture, Drawings and Paintings by Morris Graves
- Diamonds in the Sky: Images from the Hubbell Space Telescope
- The Artist and the Bible: Twentieth Century Works on Paper (†)
- SMC Student Art Exhibition
- A Sense of Place: Pam Glover and the Siegriest Legacy * (L)
1999-2000
- From Real Life, Richard Shaffer
- A Winding River: the Journey of Contemporary Art in Vietnam
- SMC Student Exhibition
- George Post: A life in Watercolor
- William Keith: California Awakening (L)
- Stories Woven In: The Navajo Way of Seeing
- Talking Walls Dialogue: Ingrid and Plato, Interactive Still Lives, Knit One, Swim Two
- SMC Faculty Exhibition
- SMC Student Exhibition
- Point to Point: California Landscape Paintings (L)
1997-1998
- Early California Impressionists: The Ronald E. Walker Collection (L)
- The College Collection: Twenty Years of Growth
- Terry St. John *
- Miseries and Misfortunes of War
- Annual Student Exhibition
1996 - 1997
- Stanley Truman: Fifty Years of Photography *
- Building Bridges, Crossing Cultures
- Ruth Bernhard: Master Artist Tribute IV
- Mark Rothko: The Spirit of Myth, Early Paintings from the 1930s and 1940s (T)
- Mary **
1995 - 1996
- William Keith: The Collection Comes Home (L)
- Puppets of the World
- Burning Lights: Spirituality, Tradition and Craft in Recent Art from the City of Angels (T)
- Robert Kehlmann: Painting with Glass, A Retrospective *
- Annual Student Exhibition
- Stanley Truman: Fifty Years of Photography *
1994 - 1995
- Jeannette Maxfield Lewis (1894-1982): A Centennial Celebration (T) (L)
- African Alchemy: Art for Healing in African Societies *
- Manuel Neri: A Sculptor's Drawings (Master Artist Tribute III) *
- Saint Mary's College Art Faculty (Lee Altman, Roy Schmaltz, Suzanne Schumacher)
- Icons and Easter Eggs of Imperial Russia *
- Annual Student Exhibition
1993 - 1994
- "Wonderful Colors!" The Paintings of August F. Gay (T) (L)
- Modern British Art: Vorticism and the Grosvenor School, 1912-1935*
- Fascination with Trains
- Selections 5: Recent Work from the Polaroid Collection (T)
- Gregory Kondos: Yosemite and Other California Landscapes * (L)
- Student Show
1992 - 1993
- Bicoastal Artists of the 1870s * (L)
- Tutavoh: Learning the Hopi Way (T)
- Nathan Oliveira: Figurative Works, 1958-1992 *
- California Metal **
- Bella Feldman: Sculpture
- Student Show
- Acalanes Union High School District Show
1991 - 1992
- Maurice Logan, Artist and Designer * (L)
- Charles Strong: New Paintings--China, Ezra, Joan *
- Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan (T)
- Before Columbus: Art of West Mexico **
- Recent Acquisitions
- The Crucifixion Through the Modern Eye **
- Student Show
1990 - 1991
- Personal Mythologies and Poignant Moments **
- Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper in the Saint Mary's Collection
- Prints of the Eighties (from the BankAmerica Corporation Art Collection) (T)
- Wayne Thiebaud at Seventy *
- Saint Mary's Art Faculty Show (Karen Breschi, Mark McCloud, Roy Schmaltz, Suzanne Schumacher, Darwin Marable)
- The Art of the Mask *
- Student Show
1989 - 1990
- Stanley Truman/Sister Adele: Photography (†)
- Wine in Art
- Rupert Garcia
- Jose Guadalupe Posada (T)
- Brother Kyran Memorial Exhibition
- Contemporary Landscape: New Perspectives (L)
- Artists of Contra Costa County: An Invitational Exhibition *
- If Pictures Could Talk: A Collection of California Paintings (L)
- Student Show
1988 - 1989
- William Keith, California's Poet Painter * (L)
- Douglas Holmes: The Memorials
- Contra Costa Contemporary Collections
- Post-Photo: Eleven Artists Expanding the Boundaries of Photography
- Art of Our Time: Works on Paper from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection (T)
- Student Show
1987 - 1988
- Vestments East and West: Japanese Kesa and European Chasubles * (†)
- Collection Highlights
- Art from the Computer: Computer Art Competition and "Digital Mudra" Installation by Sonya Rapoport
- Six Bay Area Women Sculptors **
- Student Show
1986 - 1987
- Architectural Inspirations: Venice and Rome *
- St. Mary's College Faculty Art Exhibition
- Acalanes High School District Art Show
- Armin Hansen: A Centennial Salute (T)
- 3 Directions in Drawing **
- Student Show
- Bay Currents: Furniture by Laurie Ann Campbell
1985 - 1986
- Selections from the Saint Mary's College Collection
- The MA Circle: Budapest and Vienna, 1916-1925 *
- Don Quixote in Art
- Raymond Saunders *
- Artists by Artists (portraits and self-portraits) (T)
- Student Show
- Pieces of Paper (handmade paper) *
1984 - 1985
- Saints and Sinners in Master Drawings (T) (†)
- Art by Alumni
- The Color Woodcut in America *
- Sculptural Paintings
- Hidden Splendors: Chinese Textiles of the Qing Dynasty *
- The World of Play: Children's Drawings from Moraga and Abroad
- Student Show
1983 - 1984
- Basic Black: Contemporary International Prints
- Dia de los Muertos: Javier Sandoval
- A Growing Circle of Friends: Art Work from Members' Collections
- Two Faces of India: Rajput Miniatures and Tribal Paintings
- The Subject Is Objects: Contemporary Bay Area Still-Life Paintings
- Student Show
- William Keith: A Changing Vision (T) (L)
1982 - 1983
- Posters of the l890s and l980s
- Alex Maldonado and John Swanson (†)
- Japanese Folk Arts and Crafts
- Know What You See: The Examination and Treatment of Paintings (T)
- Brother Giles Brom (†)
- Poseidon's Realm: Ancient Greek Art from the Lowie Museum (T)
- Student Show
- Contra Costa Competitive: Works on Paper
- Eastbay Watercolor Society Annual
1981 - 1982
- Selections from the Permanent Collection
- Engravings by William Hogarth
- California Landscape Paintings from the Collection (L)
- At Mono Lake: A Photographic Exhibition (T)
- Student Show
1980 - 1981
- Saint Mary's College Art Faculty
- Gary Smith: Sculpture
- Painted Silk by Mia Kodani and Burnished Clay by Miriam Licht
- Four Americans in France, 1914-1940 (John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, Ernest D. Roth, John W. Winkler)
1979 - 1980
- Fire and Earth: Ancient and Traditional Ceramic Forms
- The Modern Print: Recent Work from the Kala Institute
- Landscapes by Linda K. Smith and Portraits by Carole Peel
- The Arts and Crafts of Belgium (T)
- Paintings by William Keith (L)
1978 - 1979
- The Art of the Etruscans
- Selections from the Permanent Collection
- Contemporary Pots
- Conservation and the Collection
- The Watercolors of William Keith, 1838-1911 * (L)
- The Art of the Printed Book
1977 - 1978
- A Half-Century of Collecting: Selections from the Saint Mary's College Collection *
- Art from the Collection of Professor Henry and Gertrude Schaefer-Simmern *
- Middle Eastern Nomadic Rugs of the Nineteenth Century *
- Imogen Cunningham: After Ninety (T)
| KEY | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (T) | Touring exhibition from another museum |
(†) | Christian themes |
| * | Catalog published | (L) | California landscape |
| ** | Brochure-type catalog published | ||
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