1968
Roots of the Carmel Art Association. Carmel Museum of Art, August 1968 [a retrospective exhibition of early artists in Carmel, including Fitzgerald’s portrait of Bruce Ariss].
1974
James Fitzgerald (1899-1971). Arvest Galleries, Boston, May 31-June 29 [Traveled to: Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Andover, MA, September 24 – October 19, and Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, November 27 – January 1].
1975
Exhibition of Paintings by James Fitzgerald, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, October.
1976
Exhibition of Watercolors by James Fitzgerald, Mead Art Gallery,Amherst College, Amherst, MA, February 16 – March 21.
1977
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA.
Visual Arts Center, Antioch College, Columbia, MD, March.
1979
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, April 7-29.
1980
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
1984
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME, November – December.
1985
James Fitzgerald: Paintings and Drawings, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, January 20 – March 3.
James Fitzgerald. Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, May 4 – June 16.
1987
New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT, February 17 – March 29.
1988
Regionalism: The California View Watercolors 1929-1945, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, August.
1989
Paintings by James Fitzgerald, 1899-1971, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, October.
1990
American Watercolors, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.