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W&M Student Night
W&M Student Night
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
5:00 PM
Special Event
Virtual Book Talk: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
Virtual Book Talk: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
Sunday, March 30, 2025
2:00 PM
Book Talk

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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

March 6, 2025 — May 28, 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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Collection Highlights

The permanent collection at the Muscarelle dates from 1732 and has grown to nearly 8,000 objects.

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A Franciscan, Venice
ANNAN, JAMES CRAIG
1904
Photogravure printed on tissue
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 7 11/16 ins. (28.1 x 19.9 cm); Image: 7 11/16 x 5 1/2 ins. (19.8 x 13.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
It’s for you… It’s Coyote
AMBROSE-SMITH, NEAL
2022
Oil on paper, woodcut, collage, chine colle
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Le Port de Martigues
de VLAMINCK, MAURICE
1922
Woodcut
Sheet: 16 x 19 ¼ ins. (40.8 x 58.8 cm); Image: 13 3/8 x 16 ¼ ins (34.0 x 41.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Dance
OSUGI, SHOJI
1984
Color woodblock print
Sheet: 20 1/2 x 20 1/4 ins. (52.1 x 51.2 cm); Image: 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 ins. (45 x 45 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Libertson
Still life with wine, peach and grapes
REAM, CARDUCIUS PLANTAGENET
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 ins. (30.4 x 25.4 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisition Fund
A group of children and a few men gaze from behind a barbed-wire fence that marks the boundary of the Moroka township in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa
BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET
1950
Ferrotyped silver print
10 3/8 x 13 1/2 ins. (26.3 x 34.2 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Wedding Replies Until Late at Night
ABELES, SIGMUND
9/21/1978
Silverpoint
15 x 11 13/16 ins. (38.0 x 30.0 cm)
Gift of the artist
Horsetails Through Window
BULLOCK, WYNN
Circa 1957
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 ins. (24.2 x 19.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art 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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