| Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints | | August | 07 | 1990 | October | 28 | 1990 |
| Photographing the Coast of Maine: Henry G. Peabody | | August | 31 | 1990 | October | 28 | 1990 |
| Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influence | Link | September | 19 | 1990 | November | 18 | 1990 |
| Real Life: Prints by Winslow Homer and George Bellows | | September | 19 | 1990 | November | 18 | 1990 |
| Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought | Link | October | 10 | 1990 | December | 09 | 1990 |
| Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War | | October | 10 | 1989 | January | 07 | 1990 |
| American Cities: An Artist's View | | October | 17 | 1989 | January | 07 | 1990 |
| Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascape Photographs | | November | 17 | 1989 | January | 14 | 1990 |
| Cervin Robinson: Cleveland, Ohio | Link | November | 22 | 1989 | January | 20 | 1990 |
| Robert Lobe: Recent Sculptures | | November | 28 | 1989 | January | 21 | 1990 |
| From Fontainbleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century | Link | December | 13 | 1989 | January | 28 | 1990 |
| William Earle Williams: Photographs of the Gettysburg Battlefield | | January | 19 | 1990 | March | 25 | 1990 |
| Beadwork and Quillwork of the American Plains | | January | 23 | 1990 | July | 01 | 1990 |
| The Year in Review: Selections 1989 | | February | 06 | 1990 | April | 15 | 1990 |
| Bourke-White: A Retrospective | Link | February | 28 | 1990 | April | 15 | 1990 |
| Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum | Link | June | 07 | 1991 | September | 08 | 1991 |
| Notable Acquisitions | | June | 07 | 1991 | September | 15 | 1991 |
| The Order of Things: A History of the Column | | June | 07 | 1991 | October | 13 | 1991 |
| Insight/On Site | | June | 07 | 1991 | June | 09 | 1991 |
| Photographs: Recent Acquisitions | | August | 16 | 1991 | October | 20 | 1991 |
