| Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection | | October | 10 | 1989 | December | 31 | 1989 |
| Exhibition of the Mask | | October | 27 | 1951 | January | 14 | 1952 |
| Historic Brocades, Damasks and Velvets (1931, 2) | | October | 08 | 1931 | January | | 1932 |
| Egypt | | October | 07 | 1952 | December | 24 | 1952 |
| Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia | | October | 02 | 1987 | January | 04 | 1988 |
| Work of George Cohen | | October | 26 | 1966 | November | 20 | 1966 |
| Special Exhibition of Sculpture by Ivan Mestrovic | | October | 30 | 1925 | November | 30 | 1925 |
| Fragments of the Invisible: The Rene and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture | Link | October | 27 | 2013 | February | 09 | 2014 |
| Primitive Art [Children's Museum] | | October | 16 | 1935 | | | |
| Northern Landscape Traditions: The 16th and 17th Centuries | | October | 10 | 1989 | December | 31 | 1989 |
| Work of Students of Northeastern Ohio in the 1951 National Scholastic Competition | | October | 30 | 1951 | December | 02 | 1951 |
| 200 Years of British Prints | | October | 03 | 1984 | February | 03 | 1985 |
| Persian Art | | October | 29 | 1931 | November | 29 | 1931 |
| American Paintings, 17th through 19th Centuries | | October | | 1952 | November | | 1952 |
| Lord [Frederic] Leighton's King David | | October | 21 | 1987 | November | 29 | 1987 |
| Egyptian Art | | October | 01 | 1974 | June | 05 | 1975 |
| Drawings by Children in Special Classes | | October | 01 | 1946 | October | 30 | 1946 |
| The Incas: Photographs circulated by Life Magazine | | October | 03 | 1946 | October | 29 | 1946 |
| Paintings from Museum Collections | | October | 28 | 1935 | December | 27 | 1935 |
| American Cities: An Artist's View | | October | 17 | 1989 | January | 07 | 1990 |
