- Renoir, Hayward Gallery, London, 15 January-21 April, 1985, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 15 May-2 September 1985, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 9 October-5 January, 1986. --
- A studio of her own, women artists in Boston, 1870-1940, Erica E. Hirshler ; with biographies of the artists by Janet L. Comey and Ellen E. Roberts
- Arts of Korea, Jane Portal with Suhyung Kim and Hee Jung Lee
- Martin Johnson Heade, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. ; with contributions by Janet L. Comey, Karen E. Quinn, Jim Wright
- Mary Cassatt, the color prints, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Barbara Stern Shapiro
- Oscar Heyman, the jewelers' jeweler, Yvonne J. Markowitz, Elizabeth Hamilton
- Monet in the '90s, the series paintings, Paul Hayes Tucker
- David Hockney, portraits, Sarah Howgate, Barbara Stern Shapiro ; with essays by Mark Glazebrook, Marco Livingstone and Edmund White