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Rhode Island School of Design

Early RISD Exhibition Catalogs: 1931-1945

This guide presents the first 60 years of published catalogs of exhibitions held at the Rhode Island School of Design.

1931-1935

Exhibition of water colors by Winslow Homer.   1931
Exhibition of Pan-American paintings 1931
Catalogue of annual exhibition of contemporary American paintings : October sixth to November third, Rhode Island School of Design, 1931.   1931
Henri Matisse : [exhibition] Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, December 14-28, 1931.   1931
Catalogue of the Pendleton collection of colonial furniture at the Rhode Island School of Design.   1932
Exhibition of modern Catalan painting 1932
Exposition "petites tuileries" : 40 paintings of the "Ecole de Paris"  1932
Industrial Institute of the Art Center announces an exhibition of packages and containers : entered in the Irwin D. Wolf Package Competition, under the direction of the American Management Association.   1932
Exhibition of drawings by sculptors 1932
Exhibition of contemporary Italian paintings 1932
Catalogue of annual exhibition of contemporary American paintings : October fourth to November first, Rhode Island School of Design, 1932.   1932
Exhibition of English eighteenth century portraits 1932
Exhibition of paintings, water colors, drawings and prints by A. Dunoyer de Segonzac.   1933
Catalogue of annual exhibition of contemporary American paintings : October fourth to October thirty-first, Rhode Island School of Design, 1933.   1933
The Mariner.   1927-
Providence newspaper prints of 1933 1934
Exhibition of modern Spanish paintings.   1934
Exhibition of early Rhode Island Costumes 1934
The opening exhibition of Japanese color prints from the collection recently given to the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., December, nineteen hundred and thirty-four.   1934
French painting in Africa.   1935
Catalogue of the thirty-first annual exhibition of contemporary American paintings : October second to November third, Rhode Island School of Design, 1935.   1935
Exhibition of contemporary British painting 1935

1936-1945

A catalog of an exhibition of paintings by Gilbert Stuart, furniture by the Goddards and Townsends, silver by Rhode Island silversmiths.   1936
Loan exhibition of work of five contemporary English artists : engravings, drawings, water colours, illustrated books, and small carvings 1936
Catalogue of the thirty-first annual exhibition of contemporary American paintings : October first to November first, Rhode Island School of Design, 1936.   1936
Exhibition of American portraiture, 1750-1850 : arranged in honor of the national meeting of the American Historical Association.   1936
Japanese N¯o drama costumes and priest robes : opening exhibition, Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design.   1937
Sculpture and drawings by Malvina Hoffman.   1937
Two hundred years of chamber music : programme.   1937
Memorial exhibition of paintings by Eugene Vail.   1937
A Spring exhibition of contemporary American painting.   1938
Exhibition of small sculpture by Edwin N. Hancock of St. Anthony, Newfoundland.   1938
An Exhibition of contemporary American painting.   1939
Contemporary American painting 1939
Contemporary American painting 1940
Sketches, North and South American Indians, by Bertha Noyes.   1940
Miniature rooms 1941
French art of the 19th and 20th centuries : an exhibition held in cooperation with the Rhode Island Chapter of France Forever to honor the cause of De Gaulle for Free France.   1942
American rooms in miniature c1941
Exhibition of early Ohio Valley architecture 194-?
A selection of American painters of the present day : including one-man exhibitions for Arbit Blatas and Lawrence Lebduska.   1944
The catalogue of Old and New England : an exhibition of American painting of colonial and early republican days, together with English painting of the same time 1945