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11:30 AM
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5:30 PM
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Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture

February 7, 2024 — May 30, 2025
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William & Mary Collects III

February 7, 2025 — May 28, 2025
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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.

Explore Highlights from the Collection

Lost Boys
SAAR, ALISON
2008
Etching with hand-applied ribbon threaded through Rives BFK wove paper
Sheet: 30 x 40 3/4 ins. (76.2 x 103.5 cm); Plate: 23 7/8 x 35 7/8 ins. (60.8 x 89.7 cm); Framed: 35 3/4 x 47 1/2 ins. (90.8 x 120.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Lament for Lorca
MOTHERWELL, ROBERT
1981 - 1982
Color lithograph
Sheet: 43 3/4 x 60 1/2 ins. (111.1 x 153.6 cm); Framed: 46 1/4 x 63 1/4 ins. (117.2 x 160.8 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
Untitled #2
STYLES, FREDDIE
c. 1990
Acrylic on board
Sheet: 36 x 60 ins. (91.6 x 152.5 cm); Framed: 46 5/8 x 70 1/2 ins. (118.4 x 179.0 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
The Quest
DALÍ, SALVADOR
1981
Hand-colored aquatint
Sheet: 30 3/16 x 22 3/16 ins. (76.6 x 56.4 cm); Plate: 15 15/16 x 17 5/8 ins. (40.5 x 44.7 cm)
Gift of Richard Siebold, M.D.
The Boulogne Train Station. An English Excursion Train. (La gare de chemin de fer de Boulogne.  Un train de plaisir anglais.)
DAUMIER, HONORÉ
Lithograph, printer's proof
10 1/4 x 14 7/8 ins. (26.0 x 37.8 cm)
Museum purchase, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment, Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment and the Enid W. and Bernard B. Spigel Endowment Fund
Morning Star
LANKES, JULIUS JOHN
c. 1940
Oil on unprimed plywood panel
23 3/4 x 19 5/8 ins. (60.3 x 49.8 cm)
Gift of J.B. Lankes in memory of J.J. Lankes
Altered Landscape 12
NAMINGHA, MICHAEL
2021
Digital C. Print mounted to shaped acrylic
28 x 38 x 1 ins.
Selected by 2024 Curator’s Circle Members and acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat, Virginia
LINK, O. WINSTON
1957 (reprint 1987)
Silver gelatin print
Sheet: 16 x 19 7/8 ins. (40.7 x 55.5 cm); Image: 15 7/16 x 19 1/4 ins. (39.2 x 48.9 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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