Abstract Expressionists: The Women
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Featuring close to fifty paintings created by thirty-two important women artists between 1936 and 1977 in New York, California and Paris.
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Collection Highlights
The permanent collection at the Muscarelle dates from 1732 and has grown to nearly 8,000 objects.
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SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, KARL
1914
Woodcut
Sheet: 24 3/4 x 20 1/8 ins. (61.9 x 51.0 cm) [irreg.]; Image: 19 3/4 x 15 3/8 ins. (50.2 x 39.0 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Woodcut
Sheet: 24 3/4 x 20 1/8 ins. (61.9 x 51.0 cm) [irreg.]; Image: 19 3/4 x 15 3/8 ins. (50.2 x 39.0 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
BRASSESCO, TANIA ||NORBERTO, LAZLO PASSI
2010
Durst Lambda print on Kodak Endura E mat paper
Sheet: 27 ½ x 53 ins. (70.0 x 134.6 cm); Image: 26 x 51 3/8 ins. (66.0 x 130.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Durst Lambda print on Kodak Endura E mat paper
Sheet: 27 ½ x 53 ins. (70.0 x 134.6 cm); Image: 26 x 51 3/8 ins. (66.0 x 130.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
FERNÁNDEZ, ADRIÁN
2019
Digital photograph
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Digital photograph
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
WAUGH, FREDERICK JUDD
Oil on board
Sight: 11 1/2 x 15 3/4 ins. (29.2 x 40.0 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
Sight: 11 1/2 x 15 3/4 ins. (29.2 x 40.0 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
PAPPAN, CHRIS
2021
Mixed media, pencil, acrylic paint, colored pencil, inkjet print, antique ledger paper, printed road map on collaged letters
20 1/8 x 7 5/8 ins. (50.9 x 19.4 cm) [irreg.]
Acquired with funds from The Negrotto-Sapnar Endowment for Native Studies
Mixed media, pencil, acrylic paint, colored pencil, inkjet print, antique ledger paper, printed road map on collaged letters
20 1/8 x 7 5/8 ins. (50.9 x 19.4 cm) [irreg.]
Acquired with funds from The Negrotto-Sapnar Endowment for Native Studies
NAMPEYO, IRIS YOUVELLA
c. 1970
Ceramic with glazes
9 1/8 ins. (23.2 cm) in height; 17 1/4 ins. (43.9 cm) circumference at widest point; 2 5/8 ins. (diameter of opening)
Gift of The Matthews Collection
Ceramic with glazes
9 1/8 ins. (23.2 cm) in height; 17 1/4 ins. (43.9 cm) circumference at widest point; 2 5/8 ins. (diameter of opening)
Gift of The Matthews Collection
SAAR, ALISON
2008
Etching with hand-applied ribbon threaded through Rives BFK wove paper
Sheet: 30 x 40 3/4 ins. (76.2 x 103.5 cm); Plate: 23 7/8 x 35 7/8 ins. (60.8 x 89.7 cm); Framed: 35 3/4 x 47 1/2 ins. (90.8 x 120.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Etching with hand-applied ribbon threaded through Rives BFK wove paper
Sheet: 30 x 40 3/4 ins. (76.2 x 103.5 cm); Plate: 23 7/8 x 35 7/8 ins. (60.8 x 89.7 cm); Framed: 35 3/4 x 47 1/2 ins. (90.8 x 120.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
CAPONIGRO, PAUL
1967 (printed later)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 x 18 11/16 ins. (17.7 x 47.9 cm); Support: 14 x 23 ins. (35.6 x 58.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 x 18 11/16 ins. (17.7 x 47.9 cm); Support: 14 x 23 ins. (35.6 x 58.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
UTAGAWA TOKOKUNI, Untitled Kabuki scene, c. 1815, Woodblock print, Sheet: 15 3/8 x 31 ins. (39.0 x 78.7 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sullivan
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