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Exhibition History of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
1980s

Exhibitions are listed in reverse chronological order, by date of exhibition.

 

Fort Worth Art Museum (1974-1987)

Focus: Martha Alf
January 12 - February 24, 1980

Maria Nordman/Texas
February 2 - March 9, 1980

Franz Marc
February 23 - April 13, 1980

Focus: Donald Lipski
March 8 - April 27, 1980

City Segments
September 10 - October 12, 1980

Focus: Jim Woodson
September 20 - October 26, 1980

FWAM Auction
October 18, 1980

Focus: T.L. Solien
November 1 - December 14, 1980

Aycock/Holste/Singer
November 14, 1980 - January 4, 1981

Focus: Claudia DeMonte
December 20, 1980 - February 1, 1981

Ulrich Ruckriem
January 13 - March 8, 1981

Focus: Lee Smith
February 7 - March 29, 1981

Dada: Berlin Cologne Hannover
March 4 - April 19, 1981

Focus: Music from Nancy
performance
April 28 - April 29, 1981

Wayne Thiebaud: Recent Work
May 1 - June 7, 1981

Focus: Arthur France
May 16 - June 28, 1981

Focus: Sandy Skoglund
September 12 - October 18, 1981

The Southern Voice: Terry Allen, Vernon Fisher, Ed McGowin
September 13 - October 25, 1981

Focus: Maureen Connor
October 24 - November 29, 1981

Tribune Tower Competition
Organized by the Chicago Architects Collaborative
November 7 - December 16, 1981

Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980
December 16, 1981 - February 7, 1982

Focus: Jay Coogan
January 16 - February 28, 1982

Red Grooms Rodeo
February 20 - June 6, 1982

Focus: Richard Bosman
March 6 - April 18, 1982

Charles Simonds
April 14 - May 30, 1982

Focus: Ed Blackburn
April 24 - June 6, 1982

Selections from the Permanent Collection including “Photographs from the Collection”
June - August, 1982

Body Language
September 11 - October 24, 1982

Josef Hoffman
November 17, 1982 - January 9, 1983

Focus: Joann Carson
December 4, 1982 - January 16, 1983

FWAM Auction
January 15, 1983

William Wegman
January 30 - March 6, 1983

Focus: Suzanne Paul
March 5 - April 10, 1983

Milton Avery
March 22 - May 8, 1983

Focus: Otis Jones
April 16 - July 10, 1983

Selections from the Permanent Collection including New Acquisitions: Warhol and Lichtenstein
June - August, 1983

Scott Burton Chairs
September 24 - November 6, 1983

Focus: Garrison Roots
October 8 - November 27, 1983
(extended through February 5, 1984)

Twentieth Century Drawings
Selections from the permanent collection and Fort Worth private collections

November 20, 1983 - January 15, 1984 (extended through March 25, 1984)

Giuseppe Penone
January 28 - March 18, 1984 (extended April 15, 1984)

The Pop Art Print
April 7 - May 29, 1984 (extended through June 17, 1984)

Childe Hassam Prints
June 23 - August 26, 1984

Five by Five
September 5 - September 30, 1984

Dale Chihuly: A Decade of Glass
September 22 - November 18, 1984

Frank Stella: The Swan Engravings
October 14 - December 2, 1984

Hockney Paints the Stage
December 16, 1984 - February 17, 1985

On Paper: Major Paintings and Drawings from the Collection
February 3 - May 19, 1985

Picasso’s Vollard Suite
March 3 - June 2, 1985

Grand Compositions: Selections from the Collection of David Mirvish
March 10 - May 1, 1985

The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School
May 19 - July 21, 1985

Calder Animals: Made at the Zoo and Elsewhere, Too!
June 2 - September 1, 1985

Artists and Studios: Photographs by Alexander Liberman
June 9 - September 15, 1985

Robert Motherwell: Stephen’s Iron Crown and Related Works
September 15 - November 17, 1985

Robert Motherwell: A La Pintura
September 15 - November 17, 1985

Hans Hofmann: Provincetown Paintings and Drawings
September 15 - November 17, 1985

Hans Hofmann: The Renate Series
September 15 - November 17, 1985

Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
September 22 - November 24, 1985

Modern and Contemporary Masters: Selections from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
November 24, 1985 - January 26, 1986

The Nutcracker: Costume Designs by Alain Vaes for the Fort Worth Ballet
November 28 - December 31, 1985

Architecture in Silver
December 8, 1985 - January 19, 1986

Woodcuts from the Permanent Collection
January 19 - March 16, 1986

Jackson Pollock: Recent Acquisitions
February 15 - April 20, 1986

Henri Laurens: Cubist Constructions and Collages 1915-1919
March 16 - May 4, 1986

Morris Louis: Recent Acquisitions
Organized by The Fort Worth Art Museum
April 13 - June 29, 1986

The Drawings of David Smith
May 18 - June 29, 1986

Irving Penn
May 25 - July 6, 1986

Letters and Numbers
June 1 - August 31, 1986

Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
September 21 - November 9, 1986

Matisse Prints from The Museum of Modern Art
October 5 - November 30, 1986

Melissa Miller: A Survey 1978 - 1986
November 23, 1986 - January 4, 1987

Name changed to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 1987

Morris Louis
February 15 - April 12, 1987

Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective
May 17 - July 12, 1987

Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective
July 4 - August 30, 1987

Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper
September 12 - October 25, 1987

El Día de los Muertos: The Life of the Dead in Mexican Folk Art
October 4 - November 4, 1987

Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso
November 15, 1987 - January 10, 1988

The Captured Imagination: Drawings by Joan Miró from the Funacio Joan Miró, Barcelona
December 13, 1987 - February 14, 1988

Donald Sultan
February 14 - March 20, 1988

Bryan Hunt: Falls and Figures
September 11 - November 6, 1988

David Bates: Forty Paintings
October 16, 1988 - July 31, 1989

German Expressionism After the Great War: The Second Generation
February 12 - April 9, 1989

Dubuffet Prints from The Museum of Modern Art
March 5 - April 23, 1989

10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters
May 14 - August 3, 1989

Drawings by Jim Dine 1973 - 1987
August 27 - October 22, 1989

Helen Frankenthaler: A Painting Retrospective
November 5, 1989 - September 2, 1990

El Día de Los Muertos: The Life of the Dead in Mexican Folk Art
December 2, 1989 - February 10, 1991