| Goya Centennial Exhibition | | February | | 1928 | February | | 1928 |
| Ceramic Animals [Children's Museum] | | June | | 1934 | June | | 1934 |
| One Thousand Years of Japanese Art [Japan House, New York] | Link | March | | 1981 | May | | 1981 |
| Sculptors' Drawings | | November | | 1937 | December | 08 | 1937 |
| Etchings by James McBey and Percy Smith | | December | | 1922 | December | | 1922 |
| Water Colors from the Museum Collection (1938, 3) | | December | | 1938 | December | | 1938 |
| Paintings by California Artists | | October | | 1916 | November | | 1917 |
| Southwest American Indian Art | | September | | 1979 | March | | 1980 |
| Ways of Drawing Trees | | May | | 1944 | September | | 1944 |
| Museum Children's Drawings | | June | | 1934 | June | | 1934 |
| Cleveland Artists from the Cleveland Museum of Art [installed in mayor's office] | | September | | 1982 | November | | 1982 |
| Christmas Cribs [Children's Museum] | | December | | 1932 | December | | 1932 |
| Japanese Stencils from Museum Collection | | December | | 1938 | January | 08 | 1939 |
| Collection of Paintings presented by Mr. and Mrs. J.[eptha] H. Wade | | November | | 1916 | March | | 1917 |
| American Painting Exhibition [cancelled] | | | | 1984 | | | |
| Toys from Many Lands [Children's Museum] (1938) | | December | | 1938 | December | | 1938 |
| Japanese Prints | | February | | 1937 | February | | 1937 |
| Printing by Bruce Rogers | | November | | 1916 | March | | 1916 |
| Japanese Dolls and Chinese Figurines [Children's Museum] | | June | | 1929 | July | | 1929 |
| Ways of Drawing Faces | | October | | 1944 | January | | 1945 |
