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America’s Tapestry: 13 Colonies. 13 Stories. 1 Nation. and Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 4, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
First Friday: Twilight Twirl
First Friday: Twilight Twirl
Friday, September 4, 2026
5:00 PM
Special Event
Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 11, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
September 11 Open House
September 11 Open House
Friday, September 11, 2026
12:00 PM
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On View

America’s Tapestry: 13 Colonies. 13 Stories. 1 Nation.

June 19, 2026 — September 6, 2026
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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.


Allegory on the Glory of William III (Battle of Grave 26-10-1674)
LAIRESSE, GÉRARD DE
1674
Etching
Sheet: 28 x 19 1/2 ins. (71.2 x 49.3 cm); Image: 27 1/4 x 18 1/2 ins. (68.9 x 46.9 cm)
Purchase, with funds provided by the Ralph and Doris Piper Lamberson Memorial Endowment Fund, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment, and Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment
Measuring Up — Self-Portrait
ABELES, SIGMUND
1976
Lithograph
22 1/2 x 18 1/4 ins. (57.2 x 46.3 cm)
Purchase, Muscarelle Museum of Art Associates
Carry This In Remembrance Of Me
MARTIN, DELITA
2019
Acrylic, charcoal, lithography, relief printing, decorative papers, and hand stitching
Framed: 51 1/8 x 34 7/8 ins. (129.8 x 88.5 cm)
Untitled (for Jimmy de Sana)
SIMMONS, LAURIE
2000
Chromogenic print (C-print), Crystal archive type
Sheet: 24 x 20 ins. (61 x 50.8 cm); Image: 10 x 6 ins. (25.4 x 15.2 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Seated female nude
DAVIES, ARTHUR B.
Charcoal and white chalk on tan paper
12 1/2 x 10 1/2 ins. (31.6 x 26.1 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nash Castro in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Niles M. Davies, Jr.
Plants of Mourning, Remembrance of Things Past
MESA-BAINS, AMALIA
1997
Digital print on Arches Aquarelle
Sheet: 30 x 22 1/4 ins. (76.2 x 56.5 cm); Image: 25 7/8 x 20 ins. (65.8 x 50.9 cm)
Purchase, the Michael Darren Kelm Memorial Fund and the Kelm-Malis Family
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
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

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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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