| Exhibition of the Month: A Portrait of the So-Called Column and Curtain School | | October | | 1943 | October | | 1943 |
| Pre-Columbian | | October | 11 | 1960 | December | 28 | 1960 |
| Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Composition | | October | 21 | 1980 | February | 15 | 1981 |
| Historic Brocades, Damasks and Velvets (1931, 2) | | October | 08 | 1931 | January | | 1932 |
| Work of Hans A. Mueller | | October | 17 | 1950 | November | 26 | 1950 |
| Masterworks on Loan, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, "Madonna at the Fountain" by Jan van Eyck | Link | October | 09 | 2016 | February | 26 | 2017 |
| Material from the Excavations conducted at Seleucia | | October | | 1933 | October | | 1933 |
| Public Housing in the United States | | October | 08 | 1941 | November | 09 | 1941 |
| When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles in the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art | Link | October | 26 | 1997 | January | 04 | 1998 |
| The Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Lace Collection (1925) | | October | | 1925 | December | | 1925 |
| Milwaukee Artists' Group Paintings | | October | 09 | 1945 | October | 28 | 1945 |
| Artists for Victory: Graphic Arts | | October | 01 | 1943 | October | 31 | 1943 |
| Persian Art | | October | 29 | 1931 | November | 29 | 1931 |
| Northeastern Ohio Interscholastic Exhibition for 1950 [Educational Corridor] | | October | 31 | 1950 | December | 03 | 1950 |
| Japanese Art [Children's Museum] | | October | | 1933 | October | | 1933 |
| Some Contemporary British Prints, Drawings, and Paintings | | October | 17 | 1941 | November | 16 | 1941 |
| France at the Dawn of Photography | | October | 04 | 2009 | January | 24 | 2010 |
| Special Exhibition of Sculpture by Ivan Mestrovic | | October | 30 | 1925 | November | 30 | 1925 |
| Practical Manifestations in American Art | | October | 02 | 1935 | October | 27 | 1935 |
| Drawings and Lithographs by Leon Kroll | | October | 17 | 1945 | November | 25 | 1945 |
