| NEA Twentieth Anniverary | | September | | 1985 | October | | 1985 |
| Special Exhibition of Prints by Alphonse Legros | | July | | 1925 | July | | 1925 |
| Recent Accessions | | April | | 1938 | April | | 1938 |
| Handicrafts for Schools and Recreation Centers [Children's Museum] | | October | | 1940 | November | | 1940 |
| Japanese Stencils | Link | April | | 1932 | April | | 1932 |
| Mythological Animals (1959) | | June | | 1959 | June | | 1959 |
| Portrait Lithographs by William Rothenstein and a Few Process-Reproductions of Portraits and Other Lithographs by Whistler | | February | | 1917 | February | | 1917 |
| Christmas Drawings by Pupils of the Drawing Classes of the Museum | | January | | 1928 | January | | 1928 |
| Selections from the Museum Collection | | June | | 1969 | August | | 1969 |
| Drawings from Museum Toys by Pupils of Charles Dickens School [Children's Museum] | | July | | 1933 | July | | 1933 |
| Modern European Wooden Toys [Children's Museum] (1933, 2) | | July | | 1933 | July | | 1933 |
| Water Colors from the Museum Collection (1938, 3) | | December | | 1938 | December | | 1938 |
| Sir Alfred Gilbert Exhibition [not held] | | | | 1987 | | | |
| North American Indian Art [Children's Museum] (1932) | | April | | 1932 | April | | 1932 |
| 15th- and 16th-Century Italian Engravings | | November | | 1937 | November | | 1937 |
| Second Annual Exhibit of the American Bookplate Society: Bookplates by E. D. French and Bookplates of Famous People, lent by Western Reserve University | | February | | 1917 | April | | 1917 |
| Etchings by Legros | | November | | 1922 | November | | 1922 |
| Japanese Stencils from Museum Collection | | December | | 1938 | January | 08 | 1939 |
| Robert Casadesus Exhibition | | | | 1987 | | | |
| Small Sculptures in Many Mediums [Children's Museum] | | November | | 1937 | November | | 1937 |
