Exhibitions

Exhibitions

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Featured Exhibition

Smith & Libby: Two Rings, Seven Months, One Bullet

Sep 9, 2023 — Dec 31, 2023

This exhibition presents archival objects, news articles, and other primary sources to lay bare the mystery in all its fascinating complexity.

Historic House Exhibitions

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Sep30

Historic House Exhibition

Still I Rise: The Black Experience at Reynolda

Feb 22, 2022 — Dec 31, 2024

Discover the lives of the Black women and men who helped shape Reynolda as it evolved from a Jim Crow era working estate into a museum.

Past Exhibitions

Coexistence: Nature vs. Nurture

Coexistence: Nature vs. Nurture

Black Mountain College: Seedbed of American Art

Stephen Towns:
Declaration & Resistance

Prohibition Days: The Conservation of Thomas Hart Benton’s “Bootleggers”

Page Laughlin Paper Dolls: The Labor Series

Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism

Louise Nevelson: Architect of Light and Shadow

substrata: the spirit of collage in 76 years of art

Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite

The O’Keeffe Circle: Artist as Gallerist and Collector

The Voyage of Life: Art, Allegory, and Community Response

Paul Cadmus: Etchings

The Uncertainty of the Times

Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment

Two seemingly identical people in white dresses with a pink bow doing needlepoint.

Girlhood in American Art

Closeup of mosaic wisteria with light shining through.

Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light

Private Life: Domestic and Interior Spaces in Twentieth-Century Art

Raise the Roof: Restoring Reynolda’s Historic Roof

Leyendecker and the Golden Age of American Illustration

A Self in the Remaking: Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston

affinities: peter campus and american art

The American Experiment: Nineteenth-Century Prints

Hopper to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Martin Puryear: Cane

Portraits of the Artists

Dorothea Lange’s America

After Documentary

On Wings of Adventure

John Sloan: New York Etchings

Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage

Off the Wall: Postmodern Art at Reynolda

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Samuel F.B. Morse’s ‘Gallery of the Louvre’ and the Art of Invention

Off the Wall: Postmodern Art at Reynolda

Reynolda at 100: Reynolda Farm

Grant Wood and the American Farm

Living with Beauty

Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light

The Artist’s Garden

Reynolda at 100: Reynolda Gardens

George Catlin’s American Buffalo

The Art of Seating

Reynolda at 100: Lake Katharine

Written with Water: American Watercolors from Homer to Close

American Moderns, 1910-1960

Reynolda Moderns

Things Wondrous & Humble

Affinities (II)

Star Power: Edward Steichen’s Glamour Photography

The Armory Show

Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

Mystical Visions, Divine Revelations: Religion and Spirituality in Nineteenth-Century Art

A Genius for Place

Domestic Bliss: Art at Home in Britain and America, 1780-1840

Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Wonder and Enlightenment: Artist-Naturalists in the Early American South

Trains that Passed in the Night: The Photographs of O. Winston Link

Virtue, Vice, Wisdom & Folly: The Moralizing Tradition in American Art

William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005

Now/Then: A Journey in Collecting Contemporary Art at Wake Forest University

The Andes of Ecuador: Science and Spectacle

Heroes of Horticulture

American Impressions: Selections from the National Academy Museum

Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York

Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum

Wings of Adventure: Smith Reynolds and the Flight of 898 Whiskey