 In 1909 the Art Association campaigned for a major retrospective, the "Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition", to be brought to Indianapolis.The exhibition, also referred to as the "Saint-Gaudens Memorial Exhibition of Statuary", attracted 56,000 visitors during its three-month run, well beyond the board's goal of attracting 50,000 visitors.A 1937 exhibition, "Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century", included loans from the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.