| The Twain Shall Meet | | October | 30 | 1985 | January | 05 | 1986 |
| Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War | | October | 10 | 1989 | January | 07 | 1990 |
| Sir Thomas Lawrence | | October | | 1943 | November | | 1943 |
| 15th Annual Ohio Print Makers' Exhibition, circulated by the Dayton Art Institute | | October | 15 | 1942 | November | 01 | 1942 |
| Work by Students of The Cleveland School of Art (1923) | | October | 17 | 1923 | October | 29 | 1923 |
| Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty 1279-1368 | Link | October | 01 | 1968 | November | 24 | 1968 |
| Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia | | October | 02 | 1987 | January | 04 | 1988 |
| Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925 | Link | October | 21 | 2018 | January | 21 | 2019 |
| Work of George Cohen | | October | 26 | 1966 | November | 20 | 1966 |
| Special Exhibition of Medieval Choral Pages | | October | 27 | 1927 | December | 20 | 1927 |
| Paintings by Henry G. Keller | | October | 05 | 1919 | November | 14 | 1919 |
| Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection | | October | 10 | 1989 | December | 31 | 1989 |
| Architects Help People: Cleveland Chapter of AIA in cooperation with the OhioSesquicentennial | | October | 02 | 1953 | November | 04 | 1953 |
| North American Indian Collection [Junior Museum] | | October | | 1942 | October | | 1942 |
| Contemporary Drawings lent by Mrs. Albert Sterner | | October | 24 | 1923 | December | 10 | 1923 |
| Asian Autumn 1994: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland | | October | 18 | 1994 | December | 31 | 1994 |
| The Guild of Boston Artists | | October | 05 | 1916 | October | 29 | 1916 |
| Numbers | | October | 07 | 1968 | | | |
| Lord [Frederic] Leighton's King David | | October | 21 | 1987 | November | 29 | 1987 |
| In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar | Link | October | 27 | 2018 | January | 13 | 2019 |
