During his lifetime and after his death, Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s artworks were shown in many cities and in over 90 exhibitions. After his death in 1907, Mary Caroline Noble spent 25 years working with galleries and art museums to exhibit her husband’s legacy and donated major works to several art museums.  

Known exhibitions

  • 1866 St. Louis, MO Pettes and Leathe Gallery
  • 1866 New York, NY National Academy of Design, 7th Annual Exhibition pf the Artist's Fund Society
  • 1866 New York, NY National Academy of Design, 41st Annual Exhibition
  • 1866 Boston, MA DeVries Ibarra and Co.
  • 1867 New York, NY National Academy of Design, 42nd Annual Exhibition
  • 1867 Boston, MA Childs and Co.
  • 1867 Washington, DC United State Capital
  • 1867 St. Louis, MO Pettes and Leathe Gallery
  • 1867–68 Chicago, IL Opera House Art Gallery
  • 1868 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts, Wiswell's Gallery
  • 1868 New York, NY National Academy of Design, 43rd Annual Exhibition
  • 1869 Boston, MA Williams and Everett Gallery
  • 1868–69 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts, Wiswell's Gallery
  • 1869 Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 46th Annual ExhibitioN
  • 1870 Cincinnati, OH Wiswell's Gallery
  • 1870 Cincinnati, OH 1st Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
  • 1870 New York, NY National Academy of Design, 45th Annual Exhibition
  • 1871 Cincinnati, OH Wiswell's Gallery
  • 1871 New York, NY National Academy of Design, 46th Annual Exhibition
  • 1872 Cincinnati, OH 3rd Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
  • 1873 Cincinnati, OH McMicken School of Design, 3rd Annual Exhibition
  • 1874 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
  • 1875 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
  • 1875 Chicago, IL Chicago Academy of Design
  • 1875 Glasgow, Scotland James McCure and Sons, 14 Gordon Street
  • 1876 Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition Art Gallery and Annex
  • 1877 Cincinnati, OH Wiswell's Gallery
  • 1878 Cincinnati, OH Women's Art Association, Loan Collection Exhibition
  • 1879 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
  • 1880 Chicago, IL Chicago Academy of Design
  • 1887 Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Art Association, 4th Annual Exhibition
  • 1888 Chicago, IL Chicago Art Institute, 1st Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings
  • 1891 Cincinnati, OH Piper Gallery, 2nd Exhibition of the Cincinnati Art Club
  • 1894–95 Lexington, KY Lexington Manufacturer's Exposition, Art Loan Gallery
  • 1895 Atlanta, GA Cotton States and International Exhibition
  • 1895 Cincinnati, OH Spring Exhibition of the Cincinnati Museum Association
  • 1896 Cincinnati, OH Spring Exhibition of the Cincinnati Museum Association
  • 1896 Cincinnati, OH Music Hall, Loan Exhibition of Portraits
  • 1896 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, Loan Exhibition of Portraits
  • 1896–97 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Art Galleries, 1st Annual Exhibition
  • 1896 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, Exhibition of Studies, Sketches, and Pictures in Watercolors
  • 1897 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, 2nd Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists
  • 1897–98 Detroit, MI Detroit Museum of Art, 2nd Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists
  • 1898 Chicago, IL Art Institute of Chicago, 2nd Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists
  • 1898 Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Propylaeum, 2nd Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists
  • 1898 Detroit, MI Detroit Museum of Art, 3rd Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists
  • 1898–99 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, 3rd Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists
  • 1899 Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Art Association, 3rd Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists
  • 1899 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, 6th Annual Exhibition of American Art
  • 1900 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, 7th Annual Exhibition of American Art
  • 1901 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Fall Festival
  • 1905 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Business Men's Club
  • 1906 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, 13th Annual Exhibition of American Art
  • 1907 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, Exhibition of the Work of the Late Thomas S. Noble
  • 1908 Chicago, IL Chicago Art Institute, Paintings of Thomas S. Noble 1835-1907
  • 1908 St. Louis, MO St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings by Thomas S. Noble, et al.
  • 1910 New York, NY Ralston Galleries, Paintings by Thomas S. Noble
  • 1915 San Francisco, CA Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Department of Fine Arts
  • 1923 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, Special Exhibition of Former Cincinnati Artists
  • 1937–38 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, 50th Anniversary Exhibition of Work by Teachers and Former Students of the Art Academy
  • 1970 College Park, MD University of Maryland Art Gallery, American Pupils of Thomas Couture
  • 1979–80 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the 19th Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum
  • 1981 Lexington, KY University of Kentucky Art Museum, The Kentucky Painter: From the Frontier Era to the Great War
  • 1984 Owensboro, KY Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Kentucky Expatriates: Natives and Notable Visitors
  • 1987 Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Art Museum, The Procter & Gamble Art Collection
  • 1987 New York, NY Phillips Gallery, Look Away, Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
  • 1987 New York, NY ACA Gallery, Visions of America 1787-1987: 200 Years of American Genre Painting in Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the US Constitution
  • 1988 Lexington, KY University of Kentucky Art Museum, Thomas S. Noble 1835-1907
  • 1988 Greenville, SC Greenville County Museum of Art, Thomas S. Noble 1835-1907
  • 1988 Cincinnati, OH Art Academy of Cincinnati, Thomas S. Noble 1835-1907
  • 1990 Washington, DC Corcoran Gallery, Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940
  • 1990 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Museum of Art, Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940
  • 2016 Highland Heights, KY Northern Kentucky University, Steely Library

Major museum/collection holdings