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Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts

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Figure Drawing Monday: Blind Contour and Measuring
Figure Drawing Monday: Blind Contour and Measuring
Monday, February 10, 2025
5:00 PM
Workshop
Watercolor Monotypes
Watercolor Monotypes
Thursday, February 13, 2025
5:00 PM
Workshop
Figure Drawing Monday: Figure as Landscape
Figure Drawing Monday: Figure as Landscape
Monday, February 17, 2025
5:00 PM
Workshop
Figure Drawing Monday: Dynamic Shading
Figure Drawing Monday: Dynamic Shading
Monday, February 24, 2025
5:00 PM
Workshop

On View

Haiti to Harlem: Toussaint L’Ouverture & Jacob Lawrence

February 7, 2024
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William & Mary Collects III

February 7, 2025 — June 8, 2025
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Upcoming

Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

March 6, 2025 — May 28, 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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Self-portrait in felt hat
CURTIS, EDWARD S.
c. 1899
Photogravure on wove paper
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 10 15/16 ins. (39.3 x 27.7 cm); Image: 10 1/8 x 7 ins. (25.6 x 17.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Landscape with moon and stars
BOLSWERT, SCHELTE ADAMS after PETER PAUL RUBENS [1577 - 1640]
1635 - 1640
Engraving
Sheet: 12 11/16 x 17 3/4 ins. (32.2 x 45.1 cm); Framed: 24 3/4 x 30 7/8 ins. (62.3 x 78.2 cm)
Gift of Thomas E. Thorne
Anna Mae
COLE, WILLIE
2012
Intaglio and relief
Sheet: 63 1/2 x 22 1/2 ins. (162.6 x 58.4 cm); Framed: 67 9/16 x 26 5/8 ins. (171.8 x 67.8 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment (Image credit line: Image Courtesy of Highpoint Editions and the Artist | Photo credit: David Kern)
Saint Jerome Reading
de RIBERA, JUSEPE
c. 1624
Etching with engraving and drypoint
7 5/8 x 9 7/8 ins. (19.4 x 25.0 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
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
Winter Snow, Blue Coal Calendar/Joy Winter Day
CLYMER, JOHN FORD
1942
Oil on canvas
Gift of Jane Spencer Smith (W&M '48) and Willard S. Smith (W&M '44), Alumni medallion recipients
GACHUPIN, LAURA
11/1981
Ceramic, clay, and paint
A) approx. 7 ins. in diameter; B) 4 1/2 ins. x 2 1/2 ins.
Gift of The Matthews Collection
School Girl, St. Croix
KANAGA, CONSUELO
1963 (printed 1970s?)
Gelatin silver print
13 1/2 x 9 1/2 ins. (34.3 x 24.2 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.

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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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