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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine: March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025 Buy Tickets

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Michelangelo:
The Genesis of the Sistine

Now through June 1.

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Muscarelle Summer Youth Art Camp
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Monday, July 28, 2025
9:00 AM
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Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

March 6, 2025 — June 1, 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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Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia

November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026
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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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Life is Altogether
DIAL, THORNTON
1994
Charcoal and colored pencil on paper
44 ½ x 30 ins. (113.0 x 76.1 cm); Framed: 52 7/8 x 37 7/8 ins. (134.7 x 96.2 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
The East End
MYERS, JEROME
c. 1930
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 30 x 40 1/4 ins. (76.4 x 102 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Downes, Grandson of the Artist, courtesy of Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Untitled
GOLDBERG, MICHAEL
1953
Oil on canvas
51 1/2 x 66 1/2 ins. (130 x 168.9 cm)
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler
Seascape
HARDY, THOMAS BUSH
1891
Watercolor
10 1/4 x 22 1/4 ins. (26.2 x 56.6 cm)
Gift of Jane Spurling
Hard Core
DE MARIA, WALTER
1973
Silver gelatin print
Sheet: 8 15/16 x 11 15/16 ins. (22.6 x 30.2 cm); Image: 4 9/16 x 11 15/16 ins. (11.7 x 30.2 cm)
Purchase, The Jean Outland Chrysler Memorial Fund
Untitled
TENNESON, JOYCE
1977
Hand applied silver emulsion on watercolor paper
Sheet: 22 1/2 x 29 1/4 ins. (57 x 74.5 cm); Image: 13 3/4 x 20 1/2 ins. (34.5 x 52 cm)
Gift of Sumit Agarwal & Madhushree Goenka, MBA Class of 2005
Winter Landscape
WEBER, MAX
1939
Oil on canvas
15 x 17 1/8 ins. (38.1 x 43.3 cm)
Bequest of Maynard J. Weber
Studies for a youth from the left and Studies of arms of a figure playing a violin;  Offset of a right hand
DANDINI, OTTAVIANO
Red chalk
Sheet: 8 x 11 7/6 ins. (20.3 x 29.0 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation

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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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