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Figure Drawing Monday: 3-Phase Figure Drawing Technique
Figure Drawing Monday: 3-Phase Figure Drawing Technique
Monday, April 21, 2025
5:00 PM
Workshop
Homeschool Workshop: Michelangelo Drawing
Homeschool Workshop: Michelangelo Drawing
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
10:00 AM
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Mural-Making Workshop
Mural-Making Workshop
Saturday, April 26, 2025
10:00 AM
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Art & Music Bash
Art & Music Bash
Saturday, April 26, 2025
1:00 PM
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On View

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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Upcoming

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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Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge 1
BUTCHER, CLYDE
1999
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
Sheet: 56 x 100 ins. (142.2 x 254.0 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
Virginia with Hair Band
MYERS, JEROME
1911
Black and colored chalk
14 15/16 x 11 9/16 ins. (37.9 x 29.4 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Downes, Grandson of the Artist, courtesy of Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Takamiya
NISHIJIMA, KATSUYUKI
1979
Color woodblock print
Sheet: 15 x 20 ins. (38 x 46.9 cm); Image: 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 ins. (31.7 x 47 cm)
Gift of David Libertson
Alexander Brook’s Art Class, Art Students League
MELTZER, ANNA E.
1936
Oil on canvas
Sight: 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 ins. (29.9 x 40.0 cm); Framed: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 ins. (44.6 x 54.6 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
Aus der Tierlegende (From the Animal Legend)
MARC, FRANZ
1912
Woodblock print
Sheet: 10 5/16 x 13 11/16 ins. (26.2 x 34.7 cm); Image: 7 13/16 x 9 1/2 ins. (19.8 x 24.1 cm)
Gift of William Fleming Kenan, Professor at the College of William and Mary, 1983
Hunger
FISCHER, GEORGE
1992
Oil on canvas
Frame: 56 x 58 1/8 ins. (142.2 x 147.7 cm); Canvas: 54 x 56 ins. (137.2 x 142.3 cm)
Gift of Jayne W. Barnard
Untitled
YOKOTA, DAISUKE
2022
Archival pigment print
71 x 57 ins. (180.3 x 144.8 cm)
Purchase, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle 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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