| Exhibition of the Month: The Christmas Story - A Picture Sequence | | December | | 1943 | December | | 1943 |
| Etched Designs for Table China by Felix Bracquemond | | December | | 1922 | December | | 1922 |
| Japanese Stencils from Museum Collections | | December | 01 | 1933 | January | 03 | 1934 |
| Views of Paris | | December | 04 | 1979 | January | 27 | 1980 |
| Christmas in the Museum Collections | | December | 04 | 1941 | January | 04 | 1942 |
| The Allen Tucker Memorial Exhibition of Paintings | | December | 17 | 1940 | January | 31 | 1941 |
| The Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Collection of Lace (1929, 2) | | December | 11 | 1929 | December | 15 | 1929 |
| Masterworks on Loan, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, "Bang" by Kerry James Marshall | Link | December | 15 | 2015 | March | 28 | 2016 |
| French Drawings from the Collection | | December | 13 | 1994 | March | 12 | 1995 |
| Drawings of Rome in 1664 by Lievin Cruyl | | December | 03 | 1943 | January | 23 | 1944 |
| Etchings by James McBey and Percy Smith | | December | | 1922 | December | | 1922 |
| Constructed Identities | Link | December | 14 | 2014 | April | 26 | 2015 |
| Louise Tift Brown Lace Bequest | | December | 13 | 1933 | January | 03 | 1934 |
| Sculpture from Notre Dame, Paris: A Dramatic Discovery | | December | 15 | 1979 | January | 27 | 1980 |
| Four and a Half Centuries of Christmas Prints | | December | 14 | 1941 | January | 04 | 1942 |
| The Traveling Exhibition of Sculpture under the auspices of the Sculptors' Guild | | December | 26 | 1940 | January | 29 | 1941 |
| Spanish and Portuguese Textiles of the 13th to 16th Centuries | | December | 11 | 1929 | January | 12 | 1930 |
| Sandy Walker: Woodblock Prints | Link | December | 13 | 1994 | March | 12 | 1995 |
| Paintings by Michigan Artists | | December | 30 | 1943 | January | 30 | 1944 |
| Ohio Print-Makers' Exhibition | | December | | 1933 | December | | 1933 |
