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1980s Exhibitions

  • Exhibition

    Photography
    The Last Ten Years

    10 Jul 1980 - 7 Oct 1980

  • Exhibition

    Fred Williams
    Painter/Etcher

    7 Jul 1981 - 10 Sep 1981

  • Exhibition

    Prints of James McNeill Whistler
    Part I: 1858–1880

    Drawing of boy in front of a wharf with sail boats

    13 Oct 1982 - 11 Jan 1983

  • Exhibition

    International Photography 1920 – 1980

    10 Nov 1982 – 30 Jan 1983

  • Exhibition

    Australian Street Photography
    the 1970s

    21 Apr – 12 Jul 1983

  • Exhibition

    Human Interest
    French Photography from Lartigue to Cartier-Bresson

    30 Apr – 17 Jul 1983

  • Exhibition

    L'Estampe Moderne
    (The Modern Print)

    Print of Woman with peacocks

    1 Jun – 14 Aug 1983

  • Exhibition

    The Screenprint

    1 Jun 1983 - 30 Nov 1983

  • Exhibition

    A Melbourne Mood
    Cool Contemporary Art

    Grid like pattern of different shapes

    13 Jul 1983 – 14 Aug 1983

  • Exhibition

    Some Recent Australian Colour Photography

    14 Jul – 2 Oct 1983

  • Exhibition

    The New American Colour Photography

    23 Jul 1983 – 2 Oct 1983

  • Artzoo

    27 Aug 1983 - 1 Apr 1984

  • Exhibition

    A Decade of Australian Photography 1972 – 1982
    Philip Morris Arts Grant at the Australian National Gallery

    8 Oct 1983 – 29 Jan 1984

  • Exhibition

    Mariano Fortuny

    Photo of  long pink dress on mannequin

    10 Oct 1983 – 18 Mar 1984

  • Exhibition

    Australian Decorative Arts
    The Past Ten Years

    Abstract silver tea set

    14 Dec 1983 – 26 Feb 1984

  • Exhibition

    Here Comes the New Photography!
    1920–1940

    4 Feb – 13 May 1984

  • Exhibition

    Diaghilev's Designers
    Costumes by Roerich, Bakst, Gontcharova and Larionov 1909–1921

    Black and white image of man in Ballet Russe costume

    31 Mar – 30 Sept 1984

  • Exhibition

    Fred Williams' Gouaches

    9 Aug 1984 - 16 Oct 1984

  • Exhibition

    Out of the book and onto the wall
    The Relief Print, Part 2

    25 Aug 1984 – 28 Oct 1984

  • Exhibition

    The Documentary Conscience
    Lewis Hine and the Farm Security Administration

    25 Aug – 21 Oct 1984

  • Exhibition

    The Twenties

    13 Oct 1984 - 31 Mar 1985

  • Exhibition

    Picasso
    The Vollard Suite Prints 1927 – 1937

    Print of an elderly man

    27 Oct – 9 Dec 1984

  • Exhibition

    The Traveller's Eye
    Photographs from the Nineteenth Century

    27 Oct 1984 – 3 Feb 1985

  • Exhibition

    Materials of Art
    Painting

    17 Nov 1984 - 12 May 1985

  • Exhibition

    Jacques Villon
    Prints 1891 – 1951

    Pencil Sketch of two women

    22 Dec 1984 – 24 Feb 1985

  • Exhibition

    Recent Acquisitions of Australian Prints

    22 Dec 1984 – 24 Feb 1985

  • Exhibition

    Visions of the Orient in the 19th Century

    22 Dec 1984 – 3 Mar 1985

  • Exhibition

    The Dark Side
    American Photography 1930s – 1970s

    9 Feb – 2 Jun 1985

  • Exhibition

    Print by Print, Step by Step
    Artists' Prints in Series

    9 Mar 1985 – 2 Jun 1985

  • Exhibition

    Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee
    Flamingo Park and Bush Couture

    20 Apr 1985 – Feb 1986

  • Exhibition

    Ken Tyler
    Printer Extraordinary

    6 Jun 1985 – 13 Oct 1985

  • Exhibition

    Highlights and Soft Shadows
    Pictorialism in Australian Photography

    8 Jun – 29 Sep 1985

  • Exhibition

    Arthur Boyd
    Seven Persistent Images

    29 Jun 1985 - 29 Sept 1985

  • Exhibition

    Contrasts: Recent German and Italian Prints

    Surrealist print of man and woman fishing in a boat

    11 Jul – 1 Sept 1985

  • Exhibition

    Recent Australian Photography
    From the Kodak Fund

    Model layout of exhibitions with hands adjusting the location of works of art

    05 Oct 1985 – 09 Feb 1986

  • Exhibition

    Two Great Caricaturists
    Daumier and Gavarni

    Print of elderly figure watching beautiful young woman

    5 Oct – 24 Nov 1985

  • Exhibition

    Lightworks
    Works of Art Using Light as a Medium

    4 Dec 1985 – 23 Feb 1986

  • Exhibition

    Eye Spy 1
    A Journey

    14 Dec 1985 - 7 Sep 1986

  • Exhibition

    Are You Experienced?
    San Francisco Acid Rock Posters

    Abstract, surrealist poster of a peacock with the words 'Byrds Byrds Byrds. Moby Grape. Andrew Staples'

    21 Dec 1985 – 19 Jan 1986

  • Exhibition

    Big Pictures
    Australian Photography 1975–1985

    14 Mar 1986 – 18 May 1986

  • Exhibition

    Plastic, Rubber and Leather
    Alternative Dress and Decoration

    22 Mar 1986 – 2 Nov 1986

  • Exhibition

    Picturing the Difference

    25 Apr 1986–25 May 1986

  • Exhibition

    The Artist as Social Critic

    10 May 1986 - 19 Oct 1986

  • Exhibition

    The Glamour Show
    Studio Photographs 1925–1955

    10 May 1986 – 14 Sep 1986

  • Exhibition

    Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art

    24 May 1986 – 13 Jul 1986

  • Exhibition

    Rupert Bunny's Mythologies at the Australian National Gallery

    Painting of a scene of young people bathing and resting by the sea

    7 Jun – 16 Nov 1986

  • Exhibition

    Heinrich Kühn

    9 Aug 1986 – 14 Sep 1986

  • Exhibition

    Painted Objects from Arnhem Land

    23 Aug 1986 – 2 Nov 1986

  • Exhibition

    Photoworks 1965 – 1982
    Beyond the Traditional Use of Photography

    19 Sep 1985 – 19 Nov 1985

  • Exhibition

    Ansel Adams and American Landscape Photography

    20 Sep 1986 – 1 Feb 1987

  • Exhibition

    Diaghilev's Designers
    The Second Generation

    Photo of theatrical suit costume with column motif

    15 Nov 1986 – 14 Jun 1987

  • Exhibition

    The Artist and the Printer

    29 Nov 1986 - 10 May 1987

  • Exhibition

    Bill Henson
    Untitled 1983 – 84

    6 Dec 1986 – 5 Apr 1987

  • Exhibition

    Eye Spy 2
    Faces and Figures

    20 Dec 1986 - 13 Sep 1987

  • Exhibition

    The New Vision
    A Revolution in Photographs 1920 – 1940

    7 Feb 1987 – 7 Jun 1987

  • Exhibition

    Ancestors and Spirits
    Aboriginal Painting from Arnhem Land in the 1950s and 1960s

    28 Feb 1987 – 31 May 1987

  • Exhibition

    Picture-Puzzles
    The Prints of Marcel Broodthauers

    Print of 16 gold bars with the text 'Museum' at the top of the page

    14 Mar – 21 Jun 1987

  • Exhibition

    New Fashion for the 80s

    16 May 1987 – 2 Aug 1987

  • Exhibition

    Living in the 70s
    Australian Photographs

    13 Jun 1987 – 13 Sep 1987

  • Exhibition

    The Tree and The Mountain
    Natural Images in Indonesian Textiles

    20 Jun 1987 – 20 Nov 1987

  • Exhibition

    Chinese Woodcuts of the Thirties and Forties

    1 Jul 1987–30 Aug 1987

  • Exhibition

    The Prints of Margaret Preston

    8 Aug 1987 – 18 Oct 1987

  • Exhibition

    Urban Anxieties
    Australian Drawings of the 1980s

    22 Aug 1987 – 6 Dec 1987

  • Exhibition

    A New Romance

    12 Sept 1987 – 15 Nov 1987

  • Exhibition

    Old Masters – New Visions
    El Greco to Rothko from the Philips Collection, Washington DC

    Model layout of exhibitions with hands adjusting the location of works of art

    3 Oct – 6 Dec 1987

  • Fred Williams
    A Retrospective

    7 Nov 1987 – 31 Jan 1988

  • Exhibition

    The New Dressing
    Japanese Fashion in the 80s

    Photo of Avant Garde white dress and skirt on mannequin

    21 Nov 1987 – 14 Feb 1988

  • Exhibition

    Political Motives
    The Batiks of Mohammed Hadi of Solo

    12 Dec 1987–5 Jun 1988

  • Exhibition

    British Season: Joe Tilson and R.B. Kitaj
    A Change of He(art)

    Poster of Film slide with an image of lips

    19 Dec 1987 – 13 Mar 1988

  • Exhibition

    Eye Spy 3
    Now and Then

    19 Dec 1987 - 5 Jun 1988

  • Exhibition

    Nineteenth-Century Photography
    The Formative Decades 1840s–1890s

    19 Dec 1987 – 3 Apr 1988

  • Exhibition

    Australian Photography 1978–1988

    20 Feb 1988 – 15 May 1988

  • Exhibition

    British Season, Part II: Richard Hamilton and Tom Phillips
    A Question of Style

    Print of a series of Picasso figures in the style of Velázquez's Las Meninas

    19 Mar – 10 Apr 1988

  • Exhibition

    Joie de Vivre
    Twentieth-Century French Photographs

    9 Apr 1988 – 31 Jul 1988

  • Exhibition

    Lasting Impressions
    Lithography as Art, Part 1

    16 Apr 1988 - 25 Sep 1988

  • Exhibition

    A New Generation 1983–1988
    The Philip Morris Arts Grant Purchases

    4 Jun 1988 – 17 Jul 1988

  • Exhibition

    Eye Spy 4
    Dreams and Fantasies

    11 Jun 1988 – 21 Feb 1989

  • Exhibition

    Lasting Impressions
    Lithography as Art, Part 2

    18 Jun 1988 - 6 Nov 1988

  • Touring Exhibition

    Under a Southern Sun

    Long vertically rectangular painting of man in Pastoral Scene

    Jul 1988 – May 1989

  • Exhibition

    Facing Facts
    Documentary Photographs

    6 Aug 1988 – 20 Nov 1988

  • Exhibition

    Ruben's Self-Portrait in Focus

    13 Aug – 20 Oct 1988

  • Exhibition

    Australian Decorative Arts 1985–1988

    22 Oct 1988–29 Jan 1989

  • Exhibition

    Australian Decorative Arts 1788-1900

    5 Nov 1988 – 5 Feb 1989

  • Exhibition

    Australian Decorative Arts 1900-1985

    5 Nov 1988 – 5 Mar 1989

  • Exhibition

    Folk and Popular Art in Australia 1788 – 1988

    5 Nov 1988 – 5 Mar 1989

  • Exhibition

    The Drawings of Albert Tucker

    12 Nov 1988 – 5 Mar 1989

  • Exhibition

    Margaret Michaelis

    Black and white portrait of a posing woman

    26 Nov 1988 – 19 Feb 1989

  • Exhibition

    The Life and Work of Wolfgang Sievers

    26 Nov 1988 – 19 Feb 1989

  • Exhibition

    Photography
    Recent Acquisitions 1989

    25 Feb 1989 – 4 Jun 1989

  • Exhibition

    Word As Image

    10 Mar 1989 - 4 Jun 1989

  • Exhibition

    Eye Spy 5
    Seasons

    18 Mar 1989 - 22 Oct 1989

  • Exhibition

    Aboriginal Art
    The Continuing Tradition

    3 Jun 1989 - 17 Sep 1989

  • Exhibition

    The Art of Photography 1839–1989

    17 Jun 1989 – 27 Aug 1989

  • Exhibition

    International Print Acquisitions 1985 – 1989

    13 Jul – 16 Sep 1989

  • Exhibition

    The Cool Eye
    Super-Realist Prints of the Seventies

    5 Aug 1989 - 1 Oct 1989

  • Exhibition

    Portrait Photography

    9 Sep 1989 – 10 Dec 1989

  • Exhibition

    Australian Artists' Books
    The Eighties

    7 Oct 1989 – 5 Nov 1989

  • Exhibition

    Eye Spy 6
    The Alphabet

    4 Nov 1989 - 14 Oct 1990

  • Exhibition

    'Come Up and See Our Etchings'
    Intaglio Prints from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    16 Dec 1989 – 4 Mar 1990

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