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Mural-Making Workshop
Mural-Making Workshop
Saturday, April 26, 2025
10:00 AM
Workshop
Art & Music Bash
Art & Music Bash
Saturday, April 26, 2025
1:00 PM
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Michelangelo: The Tomb and the Vault
Michelangelo: The Tomb and the Vault
Monday, April 28, 2025
5:00 PM
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Wine & Run for the Roses
Wine & Run for the Roses
Saturday, May 3, 2025
3:00 PM
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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025
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William & Mary Collects III

February 7, 2025 — June 8, 2025
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — August 18, 2025
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Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia

November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026
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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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Girl in the Anthropocene
ROMERO, DIEGO
2017
Two-color lithograph on Rives BFK paper
Sheet: 19 1/8 x 24 1/2 ins. (48.6 x 62.3 cm); Image: 15 x 21 ins. (38.0 x 53.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from The Negrotto-Sapnar Endowment for Native Studies
Alcatraz Occupation
KANE, ART
1970 (printed 2021)
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 30 x 40 ins. (76.2 x 101.6 cm); Framed: 35 1/4 x 48 ins. (89.4 x 120.2 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Running White Deer, County Wicklow, Ireland
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
Lucien Guitry (1860 – 1925)
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, HENRI DE
1898
Lithograph
Sheet: 15 7/16 x 12 7/16 ins. (39.3 x 31.6 cm); Image: 11 9/16 x 9 9/16 ins. (29.5 x 24.4 cm); Framed: 20 5/8 x 18 7/8 ins. (52.5 x 47.7 cm)
Gift of Robert E. Sullivan in memory of Elizabeth M. (Nicki) Sullivan, 1995
The Vision of Eliphaz, plate 9
BLAKE, WILLIAM
1825
Engraving
Sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 ins. (27.6 x 21.3 cm); Image: 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 ins. (20 x 15 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
Winter Morning on the Quai de l’Hôtel-Dieu (The Cab Stand)
BUHOT, FÉLIX-HILAIRE
1876
Etching and drypoint on vellum
Sheet: 10 ½ x 16 1/8 ins. (26.5 x 41 cm); Image: 8 7/8 x 12 ¼ ins. (22.5 x 31.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Promontory by the American Falls, Niagara
HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS
1878
Charcoal on light gray paper
Sight: 10 3/16 x 15 5/8 ins. (25.4 x 39.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
The Burning
LAWRENCE, JACOB
1997
Silkscreen on Bainbridge two-ply rag paper
18 1/2 x 29 ins. (47 x 73.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment with additional funds provided by the Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment

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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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