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Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 18, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Community Art Day
Community Art Day
Saturday, September 19, 2026
11:00 AM
ConcertFamilySpecial EventW&M Students
Figure Drawing Monday: Gesture and Contour
Figure Drawing Monday: Gesture and Contour
Monday, September 21, 2026
5:00 PM
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Director’s Tour – Forever Marked by the Day
Director’s Tour – Forever Marked by the Day
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
2:00 PM
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Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal

June 26, 2026 — January 3, 2027
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Photography From 1870 to Tomorrow: Pioneers and Innovators

June 2, 2026 — Ongoing
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Resilient Beauty: Selections from the Native American Art Collection

May 15, 2026 — Ongoing
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The Great American Birthday Quilt

June 10, 2026 — Ongoing
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18th-20th Century American Paintings

May 15, 2026 — Ongoing
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Where Late the Sweet Birds: Selected Works of Morgan Bulkeley, 1984-2025

August 27, 2025 — Ongoing
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Lewis Cohen: Forms of Inquiry

August 28, 2026 — January 3, 2027
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — Ongoing
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Collection Highlights

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


The Coyote – Arizona (Twilight Arizona or The Desert Arizona)
MORAN, THOMAS
1880
Mezzotint and etching in brown ink
Sheet: 9 3/4 x 14 1/2 ins. (24.8 x 36.8 cm); Plate: 6 1/8 x 9 ins. (15.6 x 22.9 cm)
Gift of Christian Vinyard
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
Protecting Assets
JACKSON, PRESTON
2005
Cast bronze
26 1/2 x 12 3/8 x 23 ins. [overall] (67.3 x 30.9 x 58.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Don’t B Afraid Its Just The Negro’es Playing dem Damn Drums again!
SIMMONS, DANNY
1997
Oil and graphite on cotton canvas
40 x 29 7/8 ins. (101.6 x 75.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Seascape
BRICHER, ALFRED THOMPSON
1870
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Sight: 7 1/2 x 14 1/2 ins. (18.9 x 36.9 cm); Framed: 18 1/4 x 25 1/2 ins. (46.5 x 64.7 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
King William County, Virginia; Woman in White by an Abandoned House
WRIGHT, WILLIE ANNE BOSCHEN
1998
Gelatin silver pinhole photograph
13 x 17 ins. (33 x 43.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Girl at Piano
BOTKIN, HENRY ALBERT
1934 - 1935
Oil on board
24 1/4 x 20 1/8 ins. (61.6 x 51.1 cm)
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler
Gevaert Gevarto 47, exact expiration date unknown, ca. 1960s, processed 2019 (#75)
ROSSITER, ALISON
2019
Gelatin silver prints
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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