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Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts

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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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Untitled (View of Wilmington)
LOPER, EDWARD L. SR.
1954
Oil on linen canvas
22 1/4 x 27 1/8 ins. (56.5 x 68.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Fragelina
PICCIRILLI, ATTILIO
Marble
28 1/4 h. x 8 1/8 w. x 16 ins. d. (71.8 x 20.7 x 40.7 cm)
Bequest of Jay Johns
SEOWTEWA, ALEX
1993
Oil on canvas
32 3/4 x 37 1/2 ins. (83.3 x 95.3 cm)
Gift of Theodore and Diana Bodner
The Hôtel de Flandre, Brussels
ROWLANDSON, THOMAS
1776
Pen and ink, and watercolor
8 1/2 x 11 5/16 ins. (21.7 x 28.8 cm)
Purchase; Richard Edward Powell, Jr. '85 Memorial Fund
Birmingham… Children of the Morning
BIGGERS, JOHN
1964
Linoleum cut
Sheet : 12 x 15 ins. (30.5 X 38.1 cm) : Image : 9 x 12 ins. (22.8 x 30.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Barn Lamp
WYETH, ANDREW
1955
Watercolor on paper with scratching out, laid down on board
Sheet: 13 x 16 5/8 ins. [irreg.] (33 x 42.3 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Guerre Civile (Civil War)
MANET, EDOUARD
1871
Lithograph on chine collé, state II/II
Sheet: 18 ½ x 25 ¼ ins. (47.0 x 64.2 cm); Image: 15 ¾ x 20 ins. (40.0 x 50.8 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Landscape with sheep
MARAIS, ADOLPHE CHARLES
1879
Oil on canvas
42 x 69 1/2 ins. (106.7 x 176.5 cm)
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler

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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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