Past Exhibitions

Since its inagural exhibition in 1961, the Carter has mounted more than 500 exhibitions. The most recently closed exhibitions can be found below, and a comprehensive list of all past exhibitions can be found on the Exhibition History page.

Learn more about 'Reinventing America: Three Modern Views on Paper'.

April 8, 2006–September 23, 2006

Reinventing America: Three Modern Views on Paper

Three recent museum acquisitions—works by Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, and John Marin—chart the artists’ transformation from drawing distinctively early nineteenth-century subject matter to creating emblems of the modern era.

Learn more about 'Focus on Photographs: Man Ray’s Électricité'.

February 18, 2006–June 25, 2006

Focus on Photographs: Man Ray’s Électricité

See revolutionary images created by the innovative American photographer Man Ray (1890–1976), who made cameraless photographs by placing objects like toasters, light bulbs, and irons on photographic paper or film and then exposing the film or paper to light.

Learn more about 'Exploring Sight: Young Photographers in the 1970s'.

February 18, 2006–June 25, 2006

Exploring Sight: Young Photographers in the 1970s

Look back thirty years to when an explosion of public and museum interest in artistic photography sparked a new experimentalism among younger photographers with their craft.

Learn more about 'Patterns of Progress: Bird's-Eye Views of Texas'.

February 18, 2006–May 28, 2006

Patterns of Progress: Bird's-Eye Views of Texas

Soar above the cities and towns of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas to catch a bird’s-eye view of one of the greatest periods of urban growth in Texas history.

Learn more about 'Lewis Hine: Children of Texas'.

January 7, 2006–July 7, 2006

Lewis Hine: Children of Texas

These fifty-five photographs made during the fall of 1913 by sociologist-turned-photographer Lewis Hine depict child labor in Texas in the early twentieth century.