| Paintings for the Museum Collection | | May | | 1939 | May | | 1939 |
| Cleveland Artists from the Cleveland Museum of Art [installed in mayor's office] | | September | | 1982 | November | | 1982 |
| Modern European Toys [Children's Museum] (1929) | | October | | 1929 | February | | 1930 |
| 18th Century Italian Prints | | March | | 1938 | April | | 1938 |
| Japanese Art | | November | | 1919 | November | | 1919 |
| Portrait Lithographs by William Rothenstein and a Few Process-Reproductions of Portraits and Other Lithographs by Whistler | | February | | 1917 | February | | 1917 |
| Pottery and Pottery Making [Junior Museum] | | April | | 1941 | May | | 1941 |
| American Painting Exhibition [cancelled] | | | | 1984 | | | |
| Drawings from the Museum Collection, 15th to 17th Centuries | | May | 18 | 1959 | | | |
| Chinese Art | | November | | 1919 | November | | 1919 |
| Costume Dolls from Fairmount Junior High School [Children's Museum] | | June | | 1931 | June | | 1931 |
| Works from the Contemporary Collection | | June | | 1969 | August | | 1969 |
| 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 |
| North American Indian Art [Children's Museum] (1930, 2) | | October | | 1930 | November | | 1930 |
| Stehli Silk Prints | | November | 01 | 1930 | | | |
| Drawings from Museum Toys by Pupils of Charles Dickens School [Children's Museum] | | July | | 1933 | July | | 1933 |
| 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 |
