For information on exhibitions prior to 2002, please contact the Curatorial Department at either 214.768.2727 or email Anne Lenhart.
2026
Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson
February 23–June 22, 2025
Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Visions of Mexico
February 23–June 22, 2025
2025
The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce
February 23–June 22, 2025
2024
Unearthing the Legacy of Islamic Spain
September 15, 2024–January 5, 2025
The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples
September 15, 2024–January 5, 2025
Barnaby Fitzgerald: An Eye for Ballast
May 5–September 22, 2024
Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Teresa Lanceta
February 18-June 16, 2024
Meditating on Materiality in the Meadows Collections
February 18–April 28, 2024
2023
Spanish Light: Sorolla in American Collections
September 17, 2023–January 7, 2024
In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art
February 26–July 30, 2023
2022
Dalí/Vermeer: A Dialogue
October 16, 2022–January 15, 2023
Masterpiece in Residence: Velázquez’s King Philip IV of Spain from The Frick Collection
September 18, 2022–January 15, 2023
Picturing Holy Women in the Spanish Empire, 1620–1800
September 18, 2022–January 15, 2023
Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Ignasi Aballí
March 6–June 26, 2022
Masterpiece in Residence: Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
March 6–June 26, 2022
Murillo: Picturing the Prodigal Son
February 20–June 12, 2022
2021
Image & Identity: Mexican Fashion in the Modern Period
September 19, 2021–January 9, 2022
Canvas and Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje
September 19, 2021–January 9, 2022
Building on the Boulevard: Celebrating 20 Years of the Meadows’s New Home
March 14—June 20, 2021
Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU’s Collections
March 14—June 20, 2021
2020
Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain
September 20, 2020–January 10, 2021
Berruguete Through the Lens: Photographs from a Barcelona Archive
July 7, 2020–January 10, 2021
2019
Sorolla in the Studio: An Exceptional Loan from an Important Spanish Collection
October 18, 2019–January 12, 2020
El Greco, Goya, and a Taste for Spain: Highlights from The Bowes Museum
September 15, 2019–January 12, 2020
Goya’s Visions in Ink: The Centerpiece of the Meadows Drawings Collection
April 30–November 3, 2019
Fortuny: Friends and Followers
February 3–June 2, 2019
2018
Dalí’s Aliyah: A Moment in Jewish History
September 9, 2018–January 13, 2019
Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929–1936
September 9, 2018-January 6, 2019 (extended run)
At the Beach: Mariano Fortuny y Marsal and William Merritt Chase
June 24–September 23, 2018
Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida
February 4-June 3, 2018
Chillida in Dallas: De música at the Meyerson
February 4 –June 3, 2018
2017
Murillo at the Meadows: A 400th Anniversary Celebration
December 6, 2017 – December 2, 2018
Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle
September 17, 2017 – January 7, 2018
Picasso/Rivera: Still Life and the Precedence of Form
August 6 – November 5, 2017
Picasso’s Dream and Lie of Franco: The Spanish Civil War in Print
April 2 – July 2, 2017
Between Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera
March 12 – June 11, 2017
2016
Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo
October 9, 2016-January 29, 2017
The Festival Book for San Fernando: Celebrating Sainthood in Baroque Seville
October 9, 2016-January 29, 2017
Salvador Dalí, An Early Surrealist Masterpiece
Through August 21, 2016
Process and Innovation: Carlotta Corpron and Janet Turner
Through August 21, 2016
Between Paris and Texas: Marie Cronin, Portraitist of the Belle Époque
February 14-June 5, 2016
Salvador Dalí, An Early Surrealist Masterpiece
January 30 – June 19, 2016
2015
Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting
September 11, 2015–January 3, 2016
Infanta Margarita in a Blue Dress: A Masterwork by Velázquez from Vienna
July 25–November 1, 2015
The Abelló Collection: A Modern Taste for European Masters
April 18-August 2, 2015
The Meadows Collects: 50 Years of Spanish Art in Texas
April 18-August 2, 2015
Human/nature. The Ridiculous and Sublime: Recent Works by John Alexander
March 22–June 28, 2015
Goya and López: A Conversation—Ambassador Loan from the Musée du Louvre, Paris
February 1-May 3, 2015
2014
H. O. Robertson: A Self-Taught Texas Regionalist
November 9, 2014–March 31, 2015
Goya: A Lifetime of Graphic Invention
September 21, 2014 – March 8, 2015
The Spanish Gesture: Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Hamburger Kunsthalle
May 25-August 31, 2014
2013
Sorolla and America
December 13, 2013-April 19, 2014
The Stewart Album: Art, Letters, and Souvenirs to an American Patron in Paris
August 25 – November 10, 2013
Impressions of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Vistas by Martín Rico
March 10-July 7, 2013
2012
Góngora/Picasso: Graphic Poetry
September 16, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Diego Velázquez: The Early Court Portraits
September 16, 2012 – January 13, 2013
The Collection of Calloway and Jerry Bywaters Cochran: In Honor of a Lone Star Legend
June 3 – August 19, 2012
The Frances Golden Ware Gift: Landscapes of the Southwest
June 3 – August 19, 2012
Modern Mexican Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection
April 29 – August 12, 2012
The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries
February 5 – May 13, 2012
Calatrava and SMU: A Decade in Motion
March 4 – April 22, 2012
2011
The Many Lives of Mary Magdalene: A Selection of Images from Bridwell Library Special Collections
September 18, 2011- January 15, 2012
The Prado at the Meadows: Ribera in a New Context
September 18, 2011- January 15, 2012
Ten Works, Ten Years: Collection Highlights at the New Meadows Museum
November 6, 2011- January 15, 2012
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
September 11, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente
May 15 – July 31, 2011
Esteban Vicente in America: Collage, Color and Somewhere In Between
May 15 – July 31, 2011
Grit & Glory: Six-Man Football, Photographs by Laura Wilson
January 30 – April 23, 2011
The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo
January 23 – April 23, 2011
2010
The Prado at the Meadows: El Greco’s ‘Pentecost’ in a New Context
September 12, 2010 – February 6, 2011
Breaking New Ground: Presenting the George W. Bush Presidential Center
October 23, 2010 – February 6, 2011
Sultans and Saints: Spain’s Confluence of Cultures
September 12, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response
September 12 – December 12, 2010
Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: Charles IV of Spain, Collector and Patron
March 7-July 18, 2010
Goya and López: Court Painters for Charles IV
March 7-July 18, 2010
Contours of Empire: The World of Charles IV
March 7-July 18, 2010
2009
Face and Form: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture in the Meadows Collection
October 7, 2009-January 25, 2010
Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917
June 21-September 20, 2009
New Light on the Etruscans: Fifteen Years of Excavation at Poggio Colla
January 25-May 17, 2009
From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany
January 25-May 17, 2009
2008
From Manet to Miró: Modern Drawings from the Abello Collection
September 14–December 2, 2008
Spain’s War of Independence: 1808-1814: The Ruins of Zaragoza and Goya’s “The Disasters of War“
September 28–December 2, 2008
Jack Kilby: The Eye of Genius
July 12-September 21, 2008
Fernando Gallego & His Workshop: The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo. Paintings from the Collection of The University of Arizona Museum of Art
March 30-July 27, 2008
Apocalypse: Images from the Book of Revelation From the Bridwell Library Special Collection
March 30-June 22, 2008
2007
Jerry Bywaters: Interpreter of the Southwest Lone Star Printmaker
November 30, 2007–March 2, 2008
Coming of Age: American Art 1850s to 1950s
November 30, 2007–February 24, 2008
Tile Design in Valencia: From the Middle Ages Through the Early 20th Century
July 22–October 21, 2007
A Tribute to Texas Art: The Gift of William J. Hill
July 15–October 14, 2007
Boleros y Mantillas: Icons of Spanish Fashion in the Meadows Collection
February 4–June 17, 2007 (held over)
Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection (Held Over)
February 4–June 17, 2007
The Union of Human and Divine: Velázquez’s Immaculate Conception
March 6-May 27, 2007
2006
From Cranach to Monet: Highlights of the Pérez Simón Collection
September 29–December 31, 2006
From Cranach and Dürer to Rubens and Rembrandt: Prints Collected by Bridwell Library for Perkins School of Theology
September 29–December 31, 2006
Piranesi: A View of the Artist Through the Collection of Engravings of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos
July 20-September 10, 2006
Maya Textile Art: Collection of the Centro de Textiles del Mundo Maya
March 23–June 4, 2006
Juan Van der Hamen y León and the Court of Madrid
March 16–May 28, 2006
Spanish Painting During the Lifetime of Van der Hamen
March 16–May 28, 2006
Goya’s View on the Spanish Golden Age: Prints from the Meadows Collection
March 16–May 28, 2006
José Ribera, Printmaker
March 16–May 28, 2006
2005
Prelude to Spanish Modernism: Fortuny to Picasso
December 11, 2005–February 26, 2006
Fortuny to Sorolla: Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors, and Prints from the Meadows Museum Collection
December 11, 2005–February 26, 2006
The Algur H. Meadows Spanish Collection: 1899-1978
December 11, 2005–February 26, 2006
The Algur H. Meadows Legacy: 1978-2005
December 11, 2005–February 26, 2006
Drawing from Life: Steve Mumford in Iraq, 2004-2004
October 6–November 27, 2005
Weaving the Legend of Don Quijote:18th Century Tapestries from the Court of Spain
September 15–November 13, 2005
From Drawing to Painting: Roger Winter’s ‘Subway Series’ and Beyond
April 20–July 31, 2005
The Art of the Book: A Centennial Tribute to Stanley Marcus, Bibliophile
April 20–July 31, 2005
Crafting Traditions: The Architecture of Mark Lemmon
February 23–July 10, 2005
2004
Texas Vision, The Barrett Collection: The Art of Texas and Switzerland
November 21, 2004–January 30, 2005
Painting a New World: Mexican Art & Life, 1521-1821
September 1–October 31, 2004
Painting a New World: Images of New Spain, Selections from the DeGolyer Library
September 1–October 31, 2004
Mapping a New World: Cartographic Treasures from the DeGolyer Library
September 1–October 31, 2004
Titans of Modern Mexico: Medieval & Early Renaissance Spain
August 11–October 24, 2004
Twentieth Century Texas and Spanish Prints
March 7–August 8, 2004
The Triumph of French Painting: 17th Century Masterpieces from the Museum of FRAME
April 30–July 25, 2004
Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure, and Narrative Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid
February 8–June 6, 2004
2003
Images of Human Tragedy in Black & White: Etchings by Francisco de Goya and Photographs by Jeffrey Gusky
September 14, 2003–January 4, 2004
Anthony Caro: The Emma Series and After
October 19, 2003–January 4, 2004
Spanish Master Drawings from Dutch Collections (1500-1900)
September 14–November 9, 2003
Masterpieces of Modern Sculpture: Rodin to Oldenburg: The Meadows Collection
New Installation Opening October 19, 2003
Francisco Toledo: Fantastic Zoology (Zoología Fantástica)
May 4–June 15, 2003
In the Meadows: Recent Sculpture, Drawings and Prints of James Surls
January 24–April 20, 2003
2002
Provisional Self: Sculpture and Drawings by James W. Sullivan
September 15–December 8, 2002
De Agua y de Luna: Silver Sculptures From Mexico
June 30–August 25, 2002
