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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

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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Collection Highlights

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

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Dragonfly Rises to the Dance
SMITH, JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE
2003
Charcoal and pencil
24 1/4 x 20 ins. (61.5 x 51.1 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisitions Fund, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment, and Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment
Kiowa
CANNON, TOMMY WAYNE called T.C. CANNON
Pencil on paper
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 ins. (27.3 x 21.0 cm); Image: 3 x 2 1/8 ins. (7.7 x 5.4 cm)
Muscarelle Museum of Art Foundation
Holy Family with Young St. John the Baptist
Attributed to PREISSLER, JOHANN DANIEL after BARTHOLOMAEUS SPRANGER [1546 - before 1611]
Pen and brown ink over pencil; squared in pencil and pricked for transfer
6 3/16 x 5 ins. (15.7 x 12.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
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
Portrait of a Dancer
CADMUS, PAUL
1981
Egg tempera on gesso panel
14 x 12 ins. (35.5 x 30.6 cm); Framed: 25 1/8 x 20 1/8 ins. (63.8 x 51.2 cm)
Purchase, Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Art Endowment Fund
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
Pietà
CARRACCI, AGOSTINO after PAOLO VERONESE (PAOLO CALIARI) [1528–1588]
1582
Engraving
15 5/8 x 11 3/8 ins. (39.8 x 28.8 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Woman with Figs (La Femme aux Figues)
GAUGUIN, PAUL
Plate 1894; printed post posthumously after 1966
Etching
Sheet: 15 1/4 x 20 1/2 ins. (38.7 x 52.0 cm); Plate: 10 1/2 x 16 5/8 ins. (26.7 x 42.2 cm)
Gift from the collection of C. Patrick Laughlin, MD, in memory of Marge Gieseking

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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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