The Civil War: A Centennial Exhibition of Eyewitness Drawings January 8 – February 12, 1961
Rembrandt Etchings February 3 – March 21, 1961
Early American Lighting Devices March 5 – July 12, 1961
The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection April 16 – May 14, 1961
Chinese Art Treasures May 28 – August 13, 1961
Lithographs and Etchings by Goya July 13 – September 13, 1961
Etchings and Drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo September 15 – November 2, 1961
Tiepolo Drawings September 17 – October 15, 1961
French Eighteenth-Century Color Prints October 7 – November 6, 1961
Thomas Eakins: A Retrospective Exhibition October 8 – November 12, 1961
Tutankhamun Treasures November 3 – December 3, 1961
Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation December 10, 1961 – February 4, 1962
Christmas Prints December 14, 1961 – January 24, 1962