| Watercolors by Auguste Ravier lent by F.[rank] S. Lahm | | January | | 1917 | January | | 1917 |
| Old Master Drawings | | March | | 1964 | April | | 1964 |
| Drawings by the Advanced Drawing Classes | | July | | 1934 | July | | 1934 |
| Peasant Embroideries | | October | | 1935 | October | | 1935 |
| North American Indian Art [Children's Museum] (1932) | | April | | 1932 | April | | 1932 |
| Sculptors' Drawings | | November | | 1937 | December | 08 | 1937 |
| One Thousand Years of Japanese Art [Japan House, New York] | Link | March | | 1981 | May | | 1981 |
| Japanese Dolls and Chinese Figurines [Children's Museum] | | June | | 1929 | July | | 1929 |
| Water Colors from the Museum Collection (1938, 2) | | November | | 1938 | November | | 1938 |
| Chinese and Javanese Shadow Figures and Marionettes [Children's Museum] | | November | | 1938 | November | | 1938 |
| Portrait Lithographs by William Rothenstein and a Few Process-Reproductions of Portraits and Other Lithographs by Whistler | | February | | 1917 | February | | 1917 |
| Greek Vases and Sculpture | | July | | 1927 | July | | 1927 |
| Four Centuries of Etching and Engraving from the Museum Collections | | June | | 1923 | October | 14 | 1923 |
| Special Exhibition of Prints by Alphonse Legros | | July | | 1925 | July | | 1925 |
| Ohio Print-Makers' Exhibition | | December | | 1933 | December | | 1933 |
| Japanese Dolls [Children's Museum] (1930) | | June | | 1930 | June | | 1930 |
| Cleveland Artists from the Cleveland Museum of Art [installed in mayor's office] | | September | | 1982 | November | | 1982 |
| Japanese Prints | | February | | 1937 | February | | 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 |
| Theater Arts for Young People [Children's Museum] | | January | | 1940 | January | | 1940 |
