Nostalgic Journey
American Illustration from the Collection of the Delware Art Museum

One important respect in which illustration differs from other forms of visiual art is that its final, completed state is not hte work of the artist's hand, but rather its publsihed form. The walls of this exhibition showed the intermediate step to the final illustration since the full range of the artists' imagination and skill is to be found in the originals.

American Impressions, An Arcadian Vision
Paintings from the Akron Art Museum

TME was pleased to offer a selection of 35 paintings from the Akron Art Museum . This exhibit encompassed studio portraits, figure studies, and still life and landscape paintings, all of which displayed the virtuosity of American impressionist painters from the years 1860-1917.

The American West
Out of Myth, Into Reality

This exhibtion included works from America's frontier years, from about 1825-1925, which has traditionally been perceived as the art most representative of the country's cultural and historical essence. Included were the works of Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Jacob Miller, Thomas Moran, Fanny F. Palmer, among others. These artists present a fablous vision of the West that was once Edenic and bountiful as well as dangerous and forbodding. Through their collective images the West became an icon of national idenity.

Pacific Parallels
Artists and the Landscape of New Zealand

This exhibition sought to give Americans a feel for the way in which artists, whether painters or photographers, have responded to the New Zealand landscape over the past one hundred and fifty years. It sought to convey something of the New Zealand identity and emphasize once again how many things the two nations share, not only in langauge, but also an energetic and lively artisit tradition.

Islamic Art & Patronage
Treasures from Kuwait

Islamic Art & Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait exhibited more than 100 objects of wood, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, ivory, gold, brass, leather, and carpets - witnesses from early Islamic civilization to the Ottoman Empire .

Ferdinand Hodler
VIews and Visions

Showing Hodler's affinity to his contemporaries Van Gogh and Munch, this presentation of landscapes and figurative paintings represented his works from 1874 to 1918. Brought to America through a parternship between TME and Credit Suisse, it introduces foreign audiences to some of the treasures of Swiss art.

Francis Bacon
A Retrospective

Through 70 reproductions of Bacon's oil paintings, including several large triptychs, the disturbing and provocative imagery Bacon developed during his long career is explored.

Becoming A Nation
Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State

Taken to the American people in a superb display of more than 100 of the State Department's greatest treasures, this exhibition included works by J.S. Copley, C.W. Peale, Goddard and Townsend, Paul Revere, Myer Myers, and many others.

Painters in Paradise
The Masterworks Bermuda Collection

Painters in Paradise presented 66 paintings by artists of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries who made their way to Bermuda and islands to the south of Bermuda from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France and elsewhere.

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A selected list of other past exhibitions:

Maxfield Parrish
Master of Make-Believe

This multi-lender exhibition featured approximately 70 works, including his beloved calendar and book illustrations, his signature classicized paintings, and rarely seen murals including the 18½-foot North Wall commissioned by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney for her studio in Westbury, Long Island.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Würth Collection

The selection of approximately 75 works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude included early wrapped objects, a Store Front, a scale model of the Wrapped Reichstag, preparatory drawings, collages, and large scale photographs of completed projects.

Holy Image, Holy Space
Icons and Frescoes from Greece

TME was proud to presented this unprecedented exhibition to the American public. It comprised of select items, wall paintings and icons, dating back fromt he tenth to the seventeenth centuries. The works in this exhibition were assembled with a view to demonstrate the variety and quality of the artistic currents that predominated in teh entire area from Macedonia to Crete.

Images of Reality, Images of Arcadia
Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings from Swiss Collections

The exhibition brought to the United States a fascinating group of seventeenth-century Dutch, Flemish, and Swiss paintings that had never before been seen in the country.The exhibition demonstrated an extradorinary richness with a range in both subject matter and style while conveying the cultural attitudes of the period.

Gold, Jade, Forests
Costa Rica

The title of this exhibition, Gold, Jade, Forests, accurately reflects teh fine legacy left to us by nature and the aboriginal peopels of Central America. TME was fortuante to have the opportunity to bring some of these treasures to the United States. The exhibition featured excellent representations of the creatures of both the forests and the waters of Costa Rica- such as the armadillo, jaguar, quetzal, lobsters, and alligators