Hans Baldung Grien: Prints and Drawings January 25 – April 5, 1981
Contemporary American Prints and Drawings March 22 – July 26, 1981
Kandinsky: The Improvisations April 26 – September 7, 1981
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio May 17 – July 5, 1981
Rodin Rediscovered June 28, 1981 – May 2, 1982
French Master Drawings from the Rouen Museum August 2 – September 13, 1981
The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds August 30, 1981 – May 31, 1982
An American Perspective: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz Jr. October 4, 1981 – February 15, 1982
The Cubist Print October 18, 1981 – January 3, 1982
The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection: Picasso Prints and Drawings October 25, 1981 – February 7, 1982
Between Continents/Between Seas: Pre-Columbian Art of Costa Rica December 20, 1981 – May 2, 1982