The American Scene - Series

Exhibitions featuring the artists

Exhibitions in the Whitney's archive featuring any of the artists listed for this work. Artwork-level exhibition history is not published by the museum; the list below is artist-level.

• Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 2020-02-17 – 2021-01-31
• The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965 2019-06-28 – 2025-05-01
• An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017 2017-08-18 – 2018-08-27
• Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960 2017-04-28 – 2019-06-02
• Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 2016-10-28 – 2017-02-05
• Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection 2016-04-02 – 2017-04-02
• The Whitney's Collection 2015-09-28 – 2016-04-04
• America Is Hard to See 2015-05-01 – 2015-09-27
• . . . as apple pie 2012-06-08 – 2013-06-09
• Real/Surreal 2011-10-06 – 2012-02-12
• Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection 2011-04-28 – 2011-09-18
• Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time 2010-10-28 – 2011-04-10
• Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield 2010-06-24 – 2010-10-17
• Modernisms 2007-08-29 – 2008-01-13
• Benton and America in the 1930s: Works on Paper 2004-05-20 – 2004-09-05
• To Be Human 2003-07-12 – 2003-10-26
• Highlights from the Permanent Collection: From Hopper to Mid-Century 2000-02-26 – 2006-05-21
• Permanent Collection 1998-04-04 – 1999-03-28
• Collection in Context: 1948 1998-01-16 – 1998-03-15
• An American Story 1996-03-20 – 1996-09-29
• Collection in Context: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Printmakers' Patron 1994-12-15 – 1996-04-21
• Whitney Biennial 1973: Contemporary American Art 1973-01-10 – 1973-03-18
• 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting 1972-01-25 – 1972-03-19
• 1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting 1969-12-16 – 1970-02-01
• 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting 1967-12-13 – 1968-02-04
• Raphael Soyer 1967-10-25 – 1968-12-01
• 1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1965-12-08 – 1966-01-30
• Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting 1963-12-11 – 1964-02-02
• Annual Exhibition 1962: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings 1962-12-12 – 1963-02-03
• Annual Exhibition 1961: Contemporary American Painting 1961-12-13 – 1962-02-04
• Annual Exhibition 1960: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings 1960-12-07 – 1961-01-22
• 1958 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings 1958-11-19 – 1959-01-04
• 1957 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors 1957-11-20 – 1958-01-12
• 1956 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings 1956-11-14 – 1957-01-06
• 1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1955-11-09 – 1956-01-08
• 1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings 1955-01-12 – 1955-02-20
• 1953 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1953-10-15 – 1953-12-06
• 1952 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1952-11-06 – 1953-01-04
• 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1950-11-10 – 1950-12-31
• 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings 1950-04-01 – 1950-05-28
• 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1949-12-16 – 1950-02-05
• 1948 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1948-11-13 – 1949-01-02
• 1948 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings 1948-01-31 – 1948-03-21
• 1947 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1947-12-06 – 1948-01-25
• 1947 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings 1947-03-11 – 1947-04-17
• 1946 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1946-12-10 – 1947-01-16
• 1946 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings 1946-02-05 – 1946-03-13
• 1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1945-11-27 – 1946-01-10
• 1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings 1945-01-03 – 1945-02-08
• 1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1944-11-14 – 1944-12-12
• 1943 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art 1943-11-23 – 1944-01-04
• 1942 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art 1942-11-24 – 1943-01-06
• 1941 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints 1941-01-15 – 1941-02-19
• 1940 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1940-11-27 – 1941-01-08
• 1940 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art 1940-01-10 – 1940-02-18
• 1939 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1939-01-24 – 1939-02-17
• 1938 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1938-11-02 – 1938-12-11
• 1938 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints 1938-03-08 – 1938-04-10
• 1937 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1937-11-10 – 1937-12-12
• Third Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1936-11-10 – 1936-12-10
• Second Biennial Exhibition: Part One—Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1936-01-24 – 1936-02-13
• Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1934-11-27 – 1935-01-10
• First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Prints 1933-12-05 – 1934-01-11
• The Arts of Life in America: A Series of Murals by Thomas Hart Benton 1932-12-06 – 1932-12-13
• First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting 1932-11-22 – 1933-01-05