Past Exhibitions
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Jared Lank: Bay of Herons
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Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection at the Portland Museum of Art
On view May 23, 2025 through September 14, 2025 -
Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention
On view October 10, 2025 through January 11, 2026 -
Spotlight: Ann Craven
On view May 14, 2025 through September 14, 2025 -
As We Are
On view October 11, 2024 through April 27, 2025 -
Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter
On view June 14, 2024 through February 2, 2025 -
Jeremy Frey: Woven
On view May 24, 2024 through September 15, 2024 -
collection
On view February 2, 2024 through April 28, 2024 -
Fragments of Epic Memory
On view October 6, 2023 through January 7, 2024 -
Alex Katz: Wedding Dress
On view June 30, 2023 through June 2, 2024 -
Drawn to the Light: 50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College
On view June 16, 2023 through September 10, 2023 -
Elizabeth Colomba: Mythologies
On view May 5, 2023 through September 4, 2023 -
Outside the Frame: Todd Webb in Africa
On view March 24, 2023 through June 19, 2023 -
American Perspectives
On view February 3, 2023 through May 7, 2023 -
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
On view December 16, 2022 through April 23, 2023 -
Kathy Butterly: Out of one, many / Headscapes
On view November 4, 2022 through March 5, 2023 -
Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder
On view September 30, 2022 through January 15, 2023 -
Surrealist Play Gone Astray
On view July 1, 2022 through October 23, 2022 -
Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford
On view June 25, 2022 through September 11, 2022 -
The Draftsman in Society: German Expressionist Prints
On view May 28, 2022 through December 11, 2022 -
Interaction of Color
On view February 19, 2022 through May 22, 2022 -
North Atlantic Triennial: Down North
On view February 18, 2022 through June 5, 2022 -
Clifford Ross: Sightlines
On view October 8, 2021 through January 2, 2022 -
Walker Evans American Photographs
On view September 10, 2021 through December 5, 2021 -
David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
On view June 19, 2021 through September 12, 2021 -
Small Wonders: Rethinking American Arts and Crafts, 1880–1920
On view May 28, 2021 through August 22, 2021 -
Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes
On view May 14, 2021 through December 12, 2021 -
Untitled, 2020: Art from Maine in a Time
On view February 12, 2021 through May 30, 2021 -
Freedom, A Fable
On view November 20, 2020 through May 2, 2021 -
Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer & Frederic Remington
On view September 25, 2020 through November 29, 2020 -
Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History
On view June 1, 2020 through May 16, 2021 -
Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times
On view February 7, 2020 through August 16, 2020 -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Scenes from Western Culture
On view November 1, 2019 through March 1, 2020 -
Barbara Morgan: Letter to the World
On view October 18, 2019 through February 16, 2020 -
N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives
On view October 4, 2019 through January 12, 2020 -
The Expansion of Cubism, 1911–1920
On view June 28, 2019 through October 6, 2019 -
Open-Ended: New Acquisitions at the Portland Museum of Art
On view June 7, 2019 through October 20, 2019 -
In The Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950–1969
On view May 24, 2019 through September 8, 2019 -
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
On view February 1, 2019 through May 5, 2019 -
Richard Avedon: Portraits, 1952–1970
On view December 7, 2018 through June 16, 2019 -
Beyond the Pedestal: Isamu Noguchi and the Borders of Sculpture
On view October 5, 2018 through January 6, 2019 -
Americans Abroad, 1860–1915
On view August 17, 2018 through December 2, 2018 -
Painter and Poet: the Art of Ashley Bryan
On view August 3, 2018 through November 25, 2018 -
Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925
On view June 22, 2018 through September 16, 2018 -
Under Pressure: Art from the 1980s
On view March 30, 2018 through August 12, 2018 -
The Robbers: German Art in a Time of Crisis
On view February 23, 2018 through July 15, 2018 -
The 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
On view January 26, 2018 through June 3, 2018 -
Eliot Porter’s Nature
On view December 22, 2017 through March 18, 2018 -
Nan Goldin
On view October 6, 2017 through December 31, 2017 -
Model Citizens: Art and Identity in the United States, 1770–1830
On view September 10, 2017 through January 28, 2018 -
Child’s Play: Representations of Adolescence
On view July 28, 2017 through December 17, 2017 -
Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper
On view June 16, 2017 through September 3, 2017 -
A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach
On view May 26, 2017 through September 8, 2017 -
Artist’s Choice: Photographs from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection
On view February 3, 2017 through July 23, 2017 -
The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum
On view February 3, 2017 through April 30, 2017 -
The Mistress and the Muse: Selections from the Isabelle and Scott Black Collection
On view February 3, 2017 through June 4, 2017 -
Of Whales in Paint: Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick
On view October 15, 2016 through December 31, 2016 -
The Art Books of Henri Matisse
On view October 7, 2016 through December 31, 2016 -
Unbound: Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
On view September 16, 2016 through December 31, 2016 -
O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York
On view June 24, 2016 through September 18, 2016 -
Georges Braque: Surface and Space
On view June 22, 2016 through September 11, 2016 -
Skowhegan at Seventy
On view June 4, 2016 through October 10, 2016 -
Edward Curtis: Selections From The North American Indian
On view February 26, 2016 through May 29, 2016 -
Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange
On view January 22, 2016 through September 4, 2016 -
Masterworks on Paper: Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art
On view January 22, 2016 through June 5, 2016 -
The Great N.C. Wyeth Caper: Paintings from America’s Storyteller
On view November 21, 2015 through February 28, 2016 -
Me, Mona, and Mao: Art, Fame, and Visual Culture
On view November 20, 2015 through February 21, 2016 -
You Can’t Get There From Here: The 2015 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
On view October 8, 2015 through January 3, 2016 -
A Magnificent Stillness: American Art from a Private Collection
On view June 26, 2015 through November 8, 2015 -
Directors’ Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail
On view May 21, 2015 through September 20, 2015 -
Rose Marasco: index
On view April 24, 2015 through December 6, 2015 -
The Coast & the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America
On view January 30, 2015 through April 26, 2015 -
Treasures of British Art 1400–2000: The Berger Collection
On view October 2, 2014 through January 4, 2015 -
Aaron T Stephan: To Borrow, Cut, Copy, and Steal
On view September 6, 2014 through February 8, 2015 -
Richard Estes’ Realism
On view May 22, 2014 through September 7, 2014 -
Andrea Sulzer: throughoutsideways
On view April 26, 2014 through August 24, 2014 -
George Daniell: Picturing Monhegan Island
On view March 1, 2014 through August 3, 2014 -
Fine Lines: American Art from the Brooklyn Museum
On view January 30, 2014 through April 27, 2014