| Wood Block Printed Textiles by Pupils of Fairmount Junior High School | | April | 20 | 1933 | May | 01 | 1933 |
| Winslow Homer, Portrait of America | | November | 10 | 1965 | May | 16 | 1966 |
| Wings over the Pacific | | February | 30 | 1945 | March | 11 | 1945 |
| Willie Robert Middlebrook Photographs: Portraits of My People | | January | 19 | 1996 | March | 29 | 1996 |
| William Wegman: Color Photographs | | October | 31 | 1986 | January | 04 | 1987 |
| William Sidney Mount [cancelled] | | July | | 1969 | August | | 1969 |
| William Rimmer: 1816-1879 | Link | February | 25 | 1986 | April | 27 | 1986 |
| William H. Johnson: An American Modern | Link | November | 03 | 2012 | January | 21 | 2013 |
| William Earle Williams: Photographs of the Gettysburg Battlefield | | January | 19 | 1990 | March | 25 | 1990 |
| William Clift: Photographs of Mont Saint-Michel | | November | 22 | 1985 | January | 19 | 1986 |
| White Lights in Leningrad: Work in Progress by Joel Meyerowitz | | January | 27 | 1989 | March | 12 | 1989 |
| Whistler: Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) | | February | 02 | 1965 | February | 28 | 1965 |
| Whistler [Education Department] | | January | 27 | 1965 | March | 21 | 1965 |
| Whistler Etchings and Lithographs: Reproductions | | January | | 1917 | January | | 1917 |
| Whistler | | May | 26 | 1981 | August | 09 | 1981 |
| When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles in the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art | Link | October | 26 | 1997 | January | 04 | 1998 |
| What was the Armory Show? | | June | 27 | 1963 | September | 15 | 1963 |
| Western Landscape Painting and Drawing | | November | 09 | 1954 | January | 06 | 1955 |
| Western Etchings by George Elbert Burr, Charles W. Dahlgreen, Ralph M. Pearson, and B.[ror]J. Nordfelt | | November | 29 | 1921 | January | 05 | 1922 |
| Wedgewood: A Living Tradition | | October | 29 | 1948 | November | 28 | 1948 |
