The museum has also organized and hosted exhibitions of modern art and design such as "Edvard Munch: Expressionist Paintings, 1900-1940"(1983), "The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, 1938-1948" (1986), "The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism" (1988), "American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age" (2001), "Picasso to Pollock: Modern Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art" (2004), "Villa America: American Moderns 1900-1950" (2005), "Birth of the Cool: Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury" (2007), and "Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce" (2009).