Venable also served five years (2002–2007) as deputy director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and then five years as the Director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY.
His work is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, the Speed Art Museum, the Chazen Museum of Art the Green National Museum in Athens and the Australian National Museum in Canberra.
British Museum | Museum of Modern Art | Art Deco | Metropolitan Museum of Art | American Museum of Natural History | Art Institute of Chicago | Victoria and Albert Museum | Natural History Museum | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | National Gallery of Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | museum | Whitney Museum of American Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | National Air and Space Museum | Brooklyn Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | Art Nouveau | Royal College of Art | Walker Art Center | Hermitage Museum | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame | art | Glasgow School of Art | Museum of Contemporary Art | Field Museum of Natural History | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Imperial War Museum |
Magdalen (1535–1540) Getty Center, Los Angeles; National Gallery, London; Contini-Bonacossi Collection, Florence; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA