This is the 5th in a series of timelines looking at Rochester art and the Memorial Art Gallery in celebration of the Galley's centennial in October 2013.
In 1989 the Gallery hosted a visual survey of the gardens of Rochester landscape architect Fletcher Steele.
On May 5, 1989 the Gallery founded a young patron's group, the Averell Council.
The Women's Council held its 50th Birthday celebration on February 14, 1990.
On May 18, 1990, Grant Holcomb was present at a ceremony at the White House in which First Lady Barbara Bush presented the 1990 Awards of the Institute of Museum Services.
In summer of 1990, the Gallery hosted a major retrospective of the works of Rochester-born artist Douglas Warner Gorsline.
Blanca Will's Penguins were installed on the Gallery grounds in summer of 1990.
The Gallery's 1990 Winslow Homer exhibition was a blockbuster.
A retrospective of Wendell Castle's furniture, organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, came to the Gallery in November 1990.
Jacob Lawrence and his wife Gwendolyn visited the Gallery for the opening of the exhibit of his Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of Narrative Paintings.
The Gallery opened a retrospective of the paintings and drawings of Harvey Ellis in March 1991.
