Polly Thayer Starr’s work was widely exhibited during her lifetime in museums, galleries, and community settings. The Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust regularly lends artwork for exhibition and partners with select cultural institutions to curate exhibitions of her work. Please visit this page often to find out where to view Polly Thayer Starr’s work.
“Polly Thayer Starr’s Burning Bush,” deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. October 2020 - March 2021
“Polly Thayer Starr: Nearer the Essence,” Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA. September 2020 - March 2021
“Women Take The Floor,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. September 2019 - May 2021
Solo Retrospective, Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport, MA. 2017
The B.M. Theocharkis Foundation for the Visual Arts and Music. Athens, Greece
Still Life from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Tradition and Innovation, 2013
Vose Galleries of Boston, MA 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA 2003
Dolphin Gallery, Hingham, MA 2002
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA “A Studio of Her Own” 2001
Friends Meeting Center, Cambridge, MA 1995, 1996
Latrelle Brewster, Locust Grove, GA 1994
Copley Society, Boston, MA 1981, 1994, 1996
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA 1969
Pietrantonio Galleries, New York, NY 1964
Childs Gallery, Boston, MA 1963
Sessler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1956
Robert Vose Galleries, Boston, MA 1950
Contemporary Arts, New York, NY 1941
Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, MA 1938
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 1936
Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA 1932
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, NY 1932
Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, MA 1931, 1935
Boston Art Club, Boston, MA
Boston Institute of Modern Art, Boston, MA (now the Institute of Contemporary Art)
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Hartford, CT
Copley Society, Boston, MA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, New York, NY
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, VA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Springfield Art League, Springfield, MA
Addison Gallery, Andover, MA
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, Washington, DC
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Brigham Young University Museum of Fine Arts, Provo, UT
Brown University, Providence, RI
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Eliot House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Langdell Library, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Mystic Museum, Mystic, CT
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Lambert Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Sweetbriar College, Sweetbriar, VA
Westbrook College, Portland, ME
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
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