| Art of Sub-Saharan Africa (Gallery reinstallation opening) | Link | October | 12 | 2003 | | | |
| 13th Annual Ohio Print Makers' Exhibition from Dayton Art Institute | | October | 04 | 1940 | November | 10 | 1940 |
| Textile Workshop of the Chicago School of Design | | October | 04 | 1944 | November | 05 | 1944 |
| Style, Truth and the Portrait | Link | October | 02 | 1963 | November | 10 | 1963 |
| 50th Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland School of Art | | October | 06 | 1933 | November | 05 | 1933 |
| Cleveland Drawings | | October | 07 | 1954 | October | 24 | 1954 |
| Artistic Luxury: Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique | Link | October | 19 | 2008 | January | 18 | 2009 |
| Fifty Years of French Art | | October | 29 | 1926 | November | 29 | 1926 |
| The Tiepolos and Their World | | October | 06 | 1981 | November | 22 | 1981 |
| Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection | Link | October | 26 | 2003 | January | 11 | 2004 |
| Islamic Architecture of Iran in photographs | | October | 31 | 1940 | December | 15 | 1940 |
| Life War Art | | October | 18 | 1944 | November | 13 | 1944 |
| [Max] Kalish, [Henry George] Keller, and [William] Sommer: Cleveland Masters from TheCleveland Museum | | October | 01 | 1982 | October | 17 | 1982 |
| Material from the Excavations conducted at Seleucia | | October | | 1933 | October | | 1933 |
| American Paintings (1954) | | October | 07 | 1954 | October | 24 | 1954 |
| Sculpture and Drawings by Aristide Maillol | | October | 29 | 1926 | November | 29 | 1926 |
| 18th-Century Master Drawings | | October | 06 | 1981 | November | 22 | 1981 |
| Richard Long Photographs: Art of Walking | | October | 13 | 1992 | December | 06 | 1992 |
| Imagining the Garden | | October | 31 | 2015 | March | 06 | 2016 |
| Lithographs by Henri Fantin-Latour lent by Ralph King | | October | 15 | 1920 | December | 11 | 1920 |
