| Master Drawings with the von Hirsch Acquisitions | | September | 12 | 1978 | November | | 1978 |
| Recent Accessions in Decorative Arts | | February | | 1923 | April | | 1923 |
| Chinese Paintings in the Kansas City and Cleveland Museums | | July | | 1979 | September | | 1979 |
| Contemporary American Prints (1932) | | June | 13 | 1932 | | | |
| Chinese and Javanese Shadow Figures and Marionettes [Children's Museum] | | November | | 1938 | November | | 1938 |
| 16th- and 17th-Century Engravings | | March | 10 | 1922 | | | |
| The Frederick Keppel Memorial Collection of Etchings | | January | 11 | 1919 | | | |
| The Development of Writing and Printing | | December | 08 | 1940 | | | |
| Marionettes [Children's Museum] | | February | | 1935 | February | | 1935 |
| Chinese Embroideries, lent by Mme. Isabelle A. DuBouchet | | November | | 1916 | December | | 1916 |
| Theater Arts for Young People [Children's Museum] | | January | | 1940 | January | | 1940 |
| Ceramic Animals [Children's Museum] | | June | | 1934 | June | | 1934 |
| Paintings for the Museum Collection | | May | | 1939 | May | | 1939 |
| Sir Thomas Lawrence | | October | | 1943 | November | | 1943 |
| Work of Students of The Cleveland School of Art (1924) | | January | | 1924 | January | | 1924 |
| International Oil Paintings | | February | | 1923 | February | | 1923 |
| One Thousand Years of Japanese Art [Japan House, New York] | Link | March | | 1981 | May | | 1981 |
| Children's Drawings | | June | 14 | 1932 | | | |
| Museum Collection | | December | 10 | 1940 | | | |
| Pastels by J.[ohn] McLure Hamilton lent by the artist and Mrs. E.[dward] H. Harriman | | January | 06 | 1917 | | | |
