National Sporting Library - Forrest E. Mars Sr. Exhibition Series

The National Sporting Library - A Research Center for Horse and Field Sports

THE FORREST E. MARS SR. EXHIBITION SERIES
Details of past exhibitions may be viewed by clicking on the articles listed below. Posters and catalogues for selected exhibitions are also available for purchase. FEBRUARY-MAY 1, 2010 F. Ambrose Clark Rare Book Room Afternoon Delights
MARCH 13, 2009 - JULY 3, 2009 The Story of Harness Racing by Currier & Ives
AUGUST 29, 2008 - FEBRUARY 28, 2009 The Voss Family, Artists of American Sporting Life
JUNE 6 - AUGUST 23, 2008 Pierre-Jules Mêne: Sporting Bronzes from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
APRIL - AUGUST 2008 Highlights from the Art Collection of the National Sporting Library
DEC. 6, 2007 - MAY 10, 2008 Faces at the Races
MAY 11, 2007 - OCTOBER 5, 2007 White House Horses
APRIL 20, 2007 - MARCH 29, 2008 Reflections on a Life with Horses: Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
APRIL 21, 2006 - APRIL 2007 Masterpieces of European & American Sporting Art: 19th- and 20th-Century, Paintings from the Collection of Joan Irvine Smith.
WINTER 2006 Forever in Full Cry: Four Artists' Portraits of Foxhunters.
SUMMER AND FALL 2005 Animals in Art
APRIL 18 - JUNE 10, 2005 Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art
OCTOBER 2004 - APRIL 2005 This is the National Sporting Library
OCTOBER 6, 2003 - JUNE 30, 2003. Eugene Connett III: The Golden Era of the Derrydale Press.
MARCH - AUGUST 2003 Sporting Silhouettes: the Mellon Weather Vane Collection
OCTOBER 2002 - FEBRUARY 2003 Sojourn at Home: the Bequest of Paul Mellon to the Yale Center for British Art.
NOVEMBER 2002 Wallace Nall Retrospective
SEPTEMBER 21 - NOVEMBER 2001 Inspired Animation: The Art of Wesley Dennis.
OCTOBER 13, 2000 - MARCH 13, 2001 Art Between Hard Covers:Illustrations from the Rare Book Room of the National Sporting Library.
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