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at the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts
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On View
Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia
November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026
Learn MoreSelections from Expanded Horizons: Native American Creativity at the Intersection of Culture and Art
October 14, 2025 — January 11, 2026
Learn MoreWhere Late the Sweet Birds: Selected Works of Morgan Bulkeley, 1984-2025
August 27, 2025 — Ongoing
Learn MoreUpcoming
Collection Highlights
The permanent collection at the Muscarelle dates from 1732 and has grown to nearly 8,000 objects.
Explore the Collection:PaintingsDrawings and WatercolorsPrintsPhotographySculpture and ObjectsRecent Acquisitions
RHODES, ROSE PECOS-SUN
Ceramic
6 3/4 x 7 x 7 ins. (16.6 x 17.7 x 17.7 cm) [irreg.]
Gift of The Matthews Collection
6 3/4 x 7 x 7 ins. (16.6 x 17.7 x 17.7 cm) [irreg.]
Gift of The Matthews Collection
MELTZER, ANNA E.
1934
Oil on canvas
Stretcher: 13 7/8 x 11 1/4 ins. (35.2 x 28.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Oil on canvas
Stretcher: 13 7/8 x 11 1/4 ins. (35.2 x 28.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
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
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
SÁNCHEZ, EMILIO
Watercolor on heavy paper
Framed: 59 1/2 x 40 ins. (151.1 x 102.0 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Framed: 59 1/2 x 40 ins. (151.1 x 102.0 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
DARIE, SANDU
circa 1962
Ink, pen and collage on four sheets of paper
36 x 10 5/8 ins. (91.4 x 27 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Ink, pen and collage on four sheets of paper
36 x 10 5/8 ins. (91.4 x 27 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
STORCK, ABRAHAM
Pen and ink, and wash on paper
7 3/4 x 11 11/16 ins. (19.7 x 29.7 cm)
Gift of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman
7 3/4 x 11 11/16 ins. (19.7 x 29.7 cm)
Gift of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman
BECKWITH, CAROL ||FISHER, ANGELA
1996
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 30 x 24 ins. (76.2 x 60.9 cm) Image: 28 x 21 3/8 ins. (71.1 x 54.4 cm)
Gift of Sumit Agarwal & Madhushree Goenka, MBA Class of 2005
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 30 x 24 ins. (76.2 x 60.9 cm) Image: 28 x 21 3/8 ins. (71.1 x 54.4 cm)
Gift of Sumit Agarwal & Madhushree Goenka, MBA Class of 2005
MACKE, AUGUST
1912-1913
Linoleum cut on heavy cream wove paper
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 11 ins. (34.7 x 28 cm); Image: 9 ½ x 7 ¾ ins. (24.2 x 19.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Linoleum cut on heavy cream wove paper
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 11 ins. (34.7 x 28 cm); Image: 9 ½ x 7 ¾ ins. (24.2 x 19.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
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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