Exhibition Archive

June 19, 2026 — September 6, 2026

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

Featuring 13 hand-embroidered panels, one for each of the original colonies, America's Tapestry illustrates the diverse stories of individual contributions — many overlooked — that reveal each colony's struggle for independence. Collaboratively stitched…

February 28, 2026 — June 14, 2026

James Sullivan: Thinking Sculpture | Sculpture Thinking

What happens when an art exhibition becomes a neuroscience laboratory? We are once again pleased to partner with Professor of Art Elizabeth Mead and Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences Jennifer Stevens on the…

February 28, 2026 — June 7, 2026

First Looks & Favorites from the Permanent Collection

The permanent collection at the Muscarelle Museum of Art is one of the oldest university-based art collections in the United States, dating from 1732 when William & Mary received its first gift of…

January 23, 2026 — April 26, 2026

Abstract Expressionists: The Women

Drawn from the renowned Christian Levett Collection and the FAMM (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum), France, Abstract Expressionists: The Women will spotlight nearly fifty paintings created by thirty-two important women artists between…

November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026

Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia

Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia is the culmination of a juried competition co-sponsored by the Muscarelle Museum of Art and the Department of Art & Art History at…

October 17, 2025 — January 11, 2026

Faculty Show 16

Recent works of William & Mary’s studio art faculty, including visiting instructors and emeriti professors, will be featured in the exhibition Faculty Show 16 on view from October 17, 2025 through January 11,…

October 16, 2025 — March 15, 2026

Losing Todd: A Mother’s Journey

Losing Todd: A Mother’s Journey is an exhibition of twenty-one paintings capturing the journey of Jeanne Harris Weaver HON ’17 coping with the loss of her son, 1LT Todd Weaver ‘08. Todd was…

October 14, 2025 — January 11, 2026

Selections from Expanded Horizons: Native American Creativity at the Intersection of Culture and Art

Expanded Horizons: Native American Creativity at the Intersection of Culture and Art, curated by Muscarelle Curator of Native American Art Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, invites us to look beyond two dimensional “traditional” artwork by Indigenous…

August 27, 2025 — November 2, 2025

VITAL: Our Irreplaceable Earth

Bringing together art and stories from eight international photographers, VITAL offers an intimate look at the places in nature we cannot afford to lose if we hope to stabilize our climate. These ecosystems…

July 3, 2025 — August 17, 2025

20th-21st Century Abstraction

Paintings dating from the late 1940s through the early 2000s are showcased in this exhibition that demonstrates innovative modes of expression throughout the decades. Artists represented include Hans Hofmann, Michael Goldberg, Perle Fine,…

June 28, 2025 — October 13, 2025

Expanded Horizons: Native American Creativity at the Intersection of Culture and Art

Expanded Horizons: Native American Creativity at the Intersection of Culture and Art, curated by Muscarelle Curator of Native American Art Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, invites us to look beyond two dimensional “traditional” artwork by Indigenous…

June 28, 2025 — December 14, 2025

18th-20th Century European Paintings

A selection of paintings from the Museum’s permanent collection provides viewers with a chance to explore the assorted hues and dramatic light of the natural world rendered and revered by European artists from…

June 7, 2025 — February 22, 2026

Haiti to Harlem: Toussaint L’Ouverture & Jacob Lawrence

This exhibition features fifteen original silkscreens by one of America’s leading figurative twentieth-century artists, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). From Lawrence’s series on The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, Haiti to Harlem provides a visual narrative of one of…

March 6, 2025 — June 1, 2025

Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine

Bringing 25 rarely-displayed masterpiece drawings by Michelangelo to the United States, Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine will offer American viewers an unprecedented opportunity to experience first-hand the genius of the famed artist.…

February 7, 2025 — March 2, 2025

Haiti to Harlem: Toussaint L’Ouverture & Jacob Lawrence

This exhibition features fifteen original silkscreens by one of America’s leading figurative twentieth-century artists, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). From Lawrence’s series on The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, Haiti to Harlem provides a visual narrative of one of…

February 7, 2025 — June 15, 2025

William & Mary Collects III

William & Mary Collects III, the first special exhibition to be unveiled in the newly expanded Muscarelle, will display significant works of art in a wide variety of media on loan from alumni…

February 7, 2025 — January 4, 2026

18th-20th Century American Paintings

A selection of works from the Museum’s permanent collection that present a range of eras and styles vital to the story of American Art are currently on view.  Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley,…

April 15, 2024 — December 6, 2024

America in Black and White: Depression-Era Photographs from the Farm Security Administration

The Muscarelle Museum of Art presents a selection of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, a New Deal-era project that created a pictorial record of American life between 1935-1944 and launched the careers…

February 9, 2024 — May 18, 2024

Nascent Themes from a Conversation of Fragments: Recent Collages by Clive Knights

We are pleased to partner once again with Professor of Art Elizabeth Mead and Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences Jennifer Stevens on the exhibition Nascent Themes From a Conversation of Fragments: Recent Collages…

January 24, 2024 — February 29, 2024

Student Photography Contest

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is proud to present an exhibition of student photography submitted as part of a competition held in the fall semester of 2023. Juried by Cuban artist and photographer…

November 3, 2023 — November 28, 2023

Face to Face: Across Spaces and Places

The Art History Fall 2023 Curatorial Project presents "Face to Face: Across Spaces and Places" on view November 3 – 28, 2023 in Andrews Gallery. This exhibition examines representations of people, either as…

August 21, 2023 — November 3, 2023

40 Years of Art at the Muscarelle

As we celebrate 40 years since our founding in 1983, explore the story of art at the Muscarelle and William & Mary. From the origins of the collection nearly 300 years ago, through…

November 14, 2022 — December 5, 2022

Carving Deep: J.J. Lankes’ American Story

The Art History Fall '22 Curatorial Project presents "Carving Deep: J J Lankes' American Story" on view November 14 – December 5 in Andrews Gallery. This exhibition has been curated by students in…

September 30, 2022 — December 11, 2022

Faculty Show 15

Recent works of William & Mary’s studio art faculty, including visiting instructors and emeriti professors, will be featured in the exhibition Faculty Show 15 on view from September 30 through December 11, 2022.  This exhibition will…

April 15, 2022 — September 25, 2022

The Human Frame: Prints by Leonard Baskin

This exhibition demonstrates Leonard Baskin’s use of the body as a vehicle for reflection, highlighting themes of mortality and morality in the natural world. Part of a required practicum course for Art History…

February 18, 2022 — April 10, 2022

Spark of Imagination: The Spectrum of Creativity

Spark of Imagination celebrated the ingenuity of American self-trained artists and their individual impulses to create. Along with special loans, the exhibition featured new acquisitions on view for the first time including works…

February 12, 2022

MUSEUM EXPANSION: The Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts

Learn more about the upcoming Martha Wren Briggs Center for The Visual Arts, the new home for the Muscarelle Museum of Art, through our new exhibition detailing the project in the Spigel Gallery.…

February 12, 2022 — May 29, 2022

Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist

Works by Degas in this exhibition consisted of drawings, prints, photographs, monotypes, one sculpture, and a letter, all from a single private collection. The collection endeavored to illuminate the background and personality of…

September 1, 2021 — February 13, 2022

SHARED IDEOLOGIES

Shared Ideologies, an exhibition of selected works by Native American artists from the 1970s to the present will offer visitors an opportunity to engage in a sociopolitical dialogue about the space between history…

April 16, 2021 — August 22, 2021

The Curatorial Project: The Art of Well-Being

This exhibition—The Art of Well-Being—did not attempt to define either art or well-being. Rather it presented a range of works from the collection of the Muscarelle Museum of Art selected to explore those…

April 9, 2021 — August 8, 2021

And still, movement

The expression of motion within the still life of black and white photography embodies the curious nature of forms that are simultaneously static and dynamic. Through a conversation between art and science, this…

October 16, 2020 — August 8, 2021

Looking out, at, in, and back again

Looking is a very complex process—nearly as complex as seeing. It requires that we let go of what we know, so we can open ourselves to what we see. Or, as American artist…

September 23, 2020 — April 11, 2021

Scales of Chaos: The Dance of Art & Contemporary Science

Curated by the nine William & Mary students in Professor Xin Conan-Wu’s class The Curatorial Project, Scales of Chaos: The Dance of Art & Contemporary Science presented fresh ways of reading art, and…

February 8, 2020 — October 11, 2020

In Focus: New Acquisitions in Photography

In Focus was originally scheduled to run from February 8 through April 7, 2020. In light of current conditions the Museum has extended the exhibition through October 11, 2020. The Museum strives to…

February 8, 2020 — April 4, 2021

American Vision: A Tribute to Carroll Owens, Jr.

American Vision: A Tribute to Carroll Owens, Jr. was originally scheduled to run from February 8 through April 7, 2020. In light of current conditions the Museum has extended the exhibition through January…

November 6, 2019 — January 26, 2020

1619 / 2019

This exhibition marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first documented African slaves in Colonial Virginia that, while part of the greater narrative of slavery in the Americas, helped to set…

October 4, 2019 — October 27, 2019

Faculty Show 14

Faculty Show 14 highlighted the diverse talents of the William & Mary studio instructors and emeritus professors in a variety of media including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and installation art.  A long-standing collaboration…

August 27, 2019 — September 27, 2019

The Adjacent Possible

This exhibition considered neuro-aesthetics and brought first-hand experiential interaction with contemporary abstract works from a distinguished group of living artists composed of Michelle Benoit, Phil Chang, Stefan Chinov, Jaynie Crimmins, Sara Dochow, Diane…

May 1, 2019 — June 17, 2019

Sankofa: Looking Back, Moving Forward

Sankofa is an Adinkra symbol from Ghana, which translates as "to look into one's past in order to move forward." Sankofa: Looking Back, Moving Forward was composed of drawings and prints by artist Steve…

April 5, 2019 — June 6, 2019

Objects of Ceremony: Effervescence, Decay, and the Everyday

This spring, William & Mary students curated this exhibition as part of a required practicum course for Art History majors called The Curatorial Project (ARTH 331). The exhibition explored ceremony as a vital…

February 10, 2018 — March 18, 2018

Women With Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is proud to present Women With Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection in conjunction with William & Mary's 100 Years of Women celebration. This exhibition featured over thirty…

February 10, 2018 — May 13, 2018

Guerrilla Girls: Conscience of the Art World

We are proud to present Guerrilla Girls: Conscience of the Art World in the Herman Graphic Arts Room as part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of coeducation at William & Mary…

February 10, 2018 — May 13, 2018

In the Light of Caravaggio: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from Southeastern Museums

In the Light of Caravaggio: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from Southeastern Museums featured important Caravaggesque paintings from the renowned collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, North Carolina Museum of Art,…

September 2, 2017 — December 10, 2017

Fred Eversley, 50 Years an Artist: Light & Space & Energy

Fred Eversley, 50 Years an Artist: Light & Space & Energy features a survey of the artist's work representing an extraordinary fifty-year career.  Eversley, trained as an engineer, began making his polyester resin…

May 6, 2017 — August 13, 2017

Fire and Clay: New Acquisitions of Chinese Antiquities

This exhibition represents a celebration and first public showing of an outstanding collection of Chinese art recently donated to the Muscarelle Museum of Art.  The generous gift comprised of twenty-one superb works, covers an arc…

April 21, 2017 — August 13, 2017

The Bones of the Earth: Scholars’ Rocks and the Natural World in Chinese Culture, Selections from the Robert Turvene Collection

In Chinese philosophy and ancient legend, Scholars’ rocks were viewed as “the bones of the earth”. Since the Song dynasty (960–1279), these natural sculptures have been regarded as artifacts of the sacred relationship…

March 21, 2017 — March 21, 2018

Building on the Legacy

Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection is comprised of more than thirty paintings, drawings, works on paper and sculptures by some of this country's most renowned artists.  This…

February 11, 2017 — August 13, 2017

The Art and Science of Connoisseurship

The Art and Science of Connoisseurship explores the creative narrative behind six paintings attributed to Agnolo Bronzino, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Lely, and Paul Cézanne.  This exhibition presents a…

February 11, 2017 — April 5, 2017

Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities

The restless genius of Sandro Botticelli (Florence, 1445-1510) is explored in depth in the most important Botticelli exhibition ever seen in the United States, Botticelli and the Search for the Divine; a major…

February 11, 2017 — May 21, 2017

Written in Confidence: The Unpublished Letters of James Monroe

Unpublished and on view for the first time, these letters are an important new resource for research and scholarship, providing viewers with a unique, inside glimpse of the man who served as President…

February 10, 2017 — August 30, 2017

A Deed Well Done: Thomas Jefferson’s 1783 Honorary Degree

Thomas Jefferson’s Honorary Degree , from collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is the only diploma Jefferson received from his alma mater and confers upon him “gladly and eagerly of the degree of…

September 10, 2016 — January 8, 2017

Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School

Constructed in 1723, the Brafferton Indian School remains a strong visual symbol on the campus of the College of William & Mary. This is the first exhibition to examine the history of the Brafferton…

September 10, 2016 — December 2, 2016

Contemporary American Marine Art: 17th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists

Hosted every three years by museums across the U.S., the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) holds a juried competition for the best in contemporary marine art.  ASMA is a non-profit educational organization…

April 16, 2016 — August 14, 2016

Curators at Work VI

Our signature series, Curators at Work, returns in its sixth installment and features significant works from the permanent collection as well as exciting recent acquisitions. This annual exhibition provides the opportunity for undergraduate…

April 16, 2016 — August 14, 2016

Museumscopes: Photography by Massimo Pacifico

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is pleased to announce the North American premiere of Museumscopes: Photography by Massimo Pacifico,  a colorful exhibition on the surprising theme that laughter, tears, sleeping and dancing happen…

February 6, 2016 — April 10, 2016

Light Works: A Century of Great Photography

From Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photographic studies of animal locomotion to Richard Misrach's contemporary chromogenic prints, Light Works  explores the history of photography. Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Richard…

February 6, 2016 — August 21, 2016

Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido

Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido  explores the most traveled road in old Japan with fresh eyes. This exhibition presents five distinct complete sets of Hiroshige’s The 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road…

February 6, 2016 — April 21, 2016

Norman Rockwell and the Boy Scouts

On loan from the National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas, are nine paintings by Rockwell (1894-1978), famed for his nostalgic and patriotic depictions of 20th-century American life. The National Scouting Museum contains the…

September 12, 2015 — January 17, 2016

Faculty Show 13

Recent works of the teaching studio art faculty including visiting instructors and emeriti professors of The College of William & Mary are featured in Faculty Show 13.  This exhibition encompasses a variety of…

May 2, 2015 — August 30, 2015

Curators at Work V

This exhibition is the culmination of the Curating, Collecting and Connoisseurship seminar taught under the tutelage of Dr. John T. Spike.  Fifth in the series, students have the opportunity to step into the…

April 25, 2015 — January 17, 2016

Twilight of a Golden Age: Florentine Painting After the Renaissance

On view through January 2016, Twilight of a Golden Age: Florentine Painting after the Renaissance, Masterworks from the Haukohl Family Collection provides the opportunity to see some of the finest examples of paintings and…

February 21, 2015 — June 14, 2015

Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty

Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, this unprecedented selection of more than twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo from Italian museums is the first exhibition to explore Leonardo’s philosophy…

February 7, 2015

Matilda of Canossa and the Origins of the Renaissance

The Muscarelle Museum of Art, in its first collaboration with the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary is pleased to present Matilda of Canossa and the Origins of…

October 17, 2014 — February 8, 2015

Tree to Mountain: The Woodblock Prints of Toshi Yoshida

This exhibition celebrates the work of renowned Japanese printmaker Toshi Yoshida exploring the artist’s process, as well as his international travels. Yoshida’s woodblock prints are associated with the sosaku-hanga movement in Japanese art,…

May 29, 2014 — September 28, 2014

21st Century Diplomacy: Ballet, Ballots and Bullets

Guest curated by Kathryn H. Floyd, visiting instructor at the College of William & Mary, 21st Century Diplomacy featured more than four dozen images of culture, politics and war captured by photographers affiliated…

April 29, 2014 — February 8, 2015

Kabuki Theater Woodcuts

Kabuki (its name comprised of the Kanji characters for “sing”, “dance”, and “skill”) is a form of Japanese theatre known for its elaborate costumes, striking makeup, and intricate choreography. The ancient celebration of…

April 29, 2014 — February 8, 2015

Jacques Callot Studies from the Permanent Collection

This collection of etchings, by the 17th-century French printmaker Jacques Callot, represents a significant acquisition for the Museum.  A variety of series that Callot completed over his career are on view, including a…

April 19, 2014 — May 18, 2014

Curators At Work IV

This is the fourth installment of our Curators at Work exhibition series.  The exhibition which runs from April 19, 2014 — May 18, 2014, will focus on new acquisitions to the permanent collection. …

April 19, 2014 — May 18, 2014

Curators At Work IV

February 8, 2014 — February 8, 2015

European Paintings from the Permanent Collection and Important Loans

This exhibition is comprised of a selection of European landscapes, portraits and religious images, from the Baroque and Renaissance periods. The paintings come from the permanent collection and loans from Thomas D. Dossett…

February 8, 2014 — January 11, 2015

American Naturalism: Selections from the Owens Foundation

This exhibition highlights the idea of the beauty of nature in art, a key theme of 19th-century American landscape painters. Generously lent from the Owens Foundation, works by Thomas Cole, Robert Henri and…

February 8, 2014 — April 6, 2014

Caravaggio Connoisseurship: Saint Francis in Meditation and the Capitoline Fortune Teller

February 8, 2014 — April 6, 2014

Caravaggio Connoisseurship: Saint Francis in Meditation and the Capitoline Fortune Teller

February 8 to April 6, 2014, visitors coming to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary will have a rare opportunity to view three famous paintings by, or…

February 8, 2014 — January 11, 2015

Celebrating the American Scene: Painters of the Federal Art Program

The paintings and watercolors in this exhibition were commissioned by the Federal Arts Project (1935—1943), a sector of the Works Progress Administration that promoted the creation of hundreds of thousands of works of…

September 29, 2013 — January 12, 2014

Glenn Close: A Life In Costume

September 29, 2013 — January 12, 2014

In Tandem: Established and Emerging Contemporary Artists from the Permanent Collection

More than twenty contemporary artists will be represented in the upcoming exhibition In Tandem: Established and Emerging Contemporary Artists from the Permanent Collection, September 29, 2013 — January 12, 2014. This multi- generational…

September 29, 2013 — January 12, 2014

Glenn Close: A Life In Costume

The Muscarelle Museum of Art will host Glenn Close: A Life in Costume, featuring selections from Close's personal costume collection.  It consists of ensembles worn by some of the most iconic characters from…

April 26, 2013 — May 26, 2013

Curators at Work III

April 26, 2013 — May 26, 2013

Curators At Work III: Recent Acquisitions

Curators at Work III: New Acquisitions, on view April 26 to May 26, 2013, will display a number of masterpieces that have been newly acquired for the permanent collection. The show will span…

February 9, 2013 — April 14, 2013

A Brush with Passion: Mattia Preti (1613-1699)

Paintings from North American collections in honor of the 400th anniversary of his birth.

February 9, 2013 — April 14, 2013

Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane

February 9, 2013 — April 14, 2013

A Brush with Passion: Mattia Preti (1613-1699)

February 9, 2013 — April 14, 2013

Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane

Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti will open February 9 and be on view through April 14, 2013.  This landmark exhibition is…

November 1, 2012 — March 1, 2012

Sadler Center Exhibition: Art & Culture: Along the US Mexican Border

October 27, 2012 — January 6, 2013

Faculty Show 12

October 27, 2012 — January 6, 2013

Faculty Show 12

Works of the teaching studio art faculty including visiting instructors and emeriti professors at William & Mary were featured in an exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art from October 27, 2012 through…

September 28, 2012 — January 6, 2013

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond

September 28, 2012 — January 6, 2013

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond

August 18, 2012 — October 7, 2012

Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections

August 18, 2012 — October 7, 2012

Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections

The vases in this exhibition, from Virginia collections, were selected to display not only a variety of subjects and shapes, but also the principal techniques used to decorate them. Arranged in an approximate…

April 14, 2012 — June 24, 2012

Writ In Gold: Medieval Treasures In Honor of Dr. Barbara Watkinson

A mysterious gold Merovingian ring dating from the onset of the middle ages, ca. 400 to 600, is among the medieval treasures included in , a special loan exhibition In honor of the…

April 14, 2012 — June 24, 2012

Curators At Work II: Memoranda for the Curatorial Files

Curators at Work II presents a new and enlarged version of Curators at Work: 16 Memoranda for the Curatorial Files, a small show in the spring of 2011 that received a popular response. A…

April 14, 2012 — June 24, 2012

William D. Barnes Three Decades of Still Life and Landscape

William D. Barnes: Three Decades of Still Life and Landscape, was an exhibition of paintings and monotypes by Professor William Barnes – on view from April 14 to June 24, 2012. Barnes retired from…

April 14, 2012 — June 24, 2012

William D. Barnes: Three Decades of Still Life and Landscape

March 2, 2012 — March 31, 2012

Sadler Center Exhibition: 2nd Time Around: Students Engaged at ENvoy

March 2, 2012 — March 31, 2012

Sadler Center Exhibition: 2nd Time Around: Students Engaged at ENvoy

February 4, 2012 — March 25, 2012

Grand Hallucination: Psychedelic Prints by William Walmsley and Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Imagine Ding Dong Daddy, Messy Jesse and the Gulf of Sexico gone Day-Glo, side-by-side with fluorescent lithographs printed and embossed like gleaming jewels — the result is an unforgettable Sixties' show... or, as…

February 4, 2012 — March 25, 2012

FRAMES The Forgotten Art

Guest curated by renowned master framer and gilder, William B. Adair, Frames: The Forgotten Art presents a globe-trotting selection of American and European hand-carved frames covering a span of more than five hundred…

February 4, 2012 — March 25, 2012

Eight Endangered Species

Contemporary artist Kay Jackson portrays Eight Endangered Species using ancient techniques and creative variations on traditional frames. Since the 1990s, Kay Jackson has been quietly paying her respects to disappearing flora and fauna…

November 1, 2011 — March 1, 2012

Sadler Center Exhibition | Art & Culture: Along the US Mexican Border

October 22, 2011 — January 22, 2012

Seeing Colors: Secrets of the Impressionists

September 10, 2011 — November 13, 2011

In Memory Still: A Kiowa Legacy

In Memory Still: A Kiowa Legacy in Art traces the enduring artistic tradition of American Indian artists, known as the Kiowa Five, from their roots in Plains culture to their lasting influence upon…

September 10, 2011 — January 22, 2012

In Memory Still: A Legacy in Kiowa Art

September 1, 2011 — October 23, 2011

Losing Todd: A Mother’s Journey (SADLER CENTER EXHIBITION)

The Muscarelle Museum of Art solemnly hosts an exhibition of seventeen paintings capturing the journey of a mother coping with the loss of her child. On September 9, 2010, Jeanne Weaver’s son, 1Lt.…

September 1, 2011 — October 23, 2011

Sadler Center Exhibition Losing Todd: A Mother’s Journey

September 1, 2011 — October 23, 2011

Losing Todd: A Mother’s Journey (Sadler Center/Museum Muscarelle Annex)

April 15, 2011 — June 19, 2011

Marlene Jack: A Journey in Clay

April 15, 2011 — June 19, 2011

Marlene Jack: A Journey in Clay

February 4, 2011 — April 3, 2011

The Berlin Wall: Photographs for the Twentieth-Anniversary

February 4, 2011 — April 3, 2011

The Berlin Wall: Photographs for the Twentieth-Anniversary

November 6, 2010 — December 31, 2010

Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, Hockney and More New Acquisitions 2005 – 2010

November 5, 2010 — January 2, 2011

Rembrandt, Durer, Picasso and others: New Acquisitions 2005 – 2010

November 5, 2010 — January 2, 2011

Curators at Work

September 17, 2010 — October 24, 2010

Envelopes: Architect’s Unfinished Experiments with Building ‘Skins’

September 17, 2010 — October 24, 2010

Envelopes: Architect’s Unfinished Experiments with Building ‘Skins’ (Organized by Pratt Manhattan Gallery, and curated by Christopher Hight)

April 24, 2010 — July 19, 2010

Merging Souls Arts of Devotion in Latin America

Merging Souls: Arts of Devotion in Latin America illuminates the rich visual and material cultures of the southern regions of the Americas from the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods to the present day. Drawing…

April 24, 2010 — June 20, 2010

Triumph of the Human Spirit, Photographs of W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith

The profound art of American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith and his wife Aileen M. Smith is the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Unbearable Beauty: The Triumph of…

April 24, 2010 — July 18, 2010

Unbearable Beauty: Triumph of the Human Spirit, Photographs by W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith

April 1, 2010 — May 7, 2010

3rd Annual Developing World Gallery (Sadler Center)

The 3rd Annual Developing World Gallery exhibition co-curated by IRC CARES and the Muscarelle Museum of Art is currently on display in the Museum’s Annex at the Sadler Center. Featured in the exhibition…

April 1, 2010 — May 7, 2010

3rd Annual Developing World Gallery (Sadler Center/Museum Muscarelle Annex)

February 6, 2010 — April 11, 2010

Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master

One of the most famous artists in the history of the world, Michelangelo Buonarroti is known for his iconic works such as the Sistine Chapel and the sculpture David. Without a doubt, however,…

February 4, 2010 — April 11, 2010

Michelangelo:Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master

November 7, 2009 — January 17, 2010

Deeply Superficial: Andy Warhol’s Voyeurism

Warhol, fascinated by contradictions, famously said, “I am a deeply superficial person.” The Muscarelle Museum of Art presents Deeply Superficial, on view from November 7, 2009 to January 17, 2010, an exhibition featuring…

November 7, 2009 — January 17, 2010

Deeply Superficial: Andy Warhol’s ‘Voyeurism’

October 14, 2009 — March 30, 2010

Sadler Center Exhibition Nat Finkelstein: Factory Photography

October 14, 2009 — March 30, 2010

Nat Finkelstein: Factory Photography (Sadler Center/Museum Muscarelle Annex)

September 5, 2009 — October 25, 2009

FACULTY SHOW ELEVEN

Works of the Studio Art faculty of The College of William & Mary will be featured at the Muscarelle Museum of Art from September 5, 2009 to October 25, 2009. This unique exhibition…

September 5, 2009 — October 25, 2009

Faculty Show Eleven

August 4, 2009 — November 1, 2009

SPANISH BAROQUE IN THE NEW WORLD: Sibyls from Zurbarán’s Studio

In the mid-17th century, Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) and his circle increasingly produced paintings for a colonial market. The series of Twelve Sibyls, on view from August 4, 2009 through November 1, 2009,…

August 4, 2009 — November 1, 2009

Spanish Baroque in the New World: Sibyls from Zurbarán’s Studio

April 18, 2009 — July 12, 2009

TIFFANY GLASS: A RIOT OF COLOR

Tiffany Glass: “A Riot of Color” is the only exhibition in Hampton Roads 2009 Art of Glass festival that will be devoted to the Art Nouveau glass of Tiffany. The Muscarelle Museum of…

April 6, 2009 — May 17, 2009

Picturing Paradise: Cuadros by the Peruvian Women of Pamplona – Alta as Visions of Hope

This exhibition is a collaboration between the Museum and the Women’s Studies Program, the American Studies Program, and the Department of Art and Art History (Prof. Susan Webster) at The College of William…

March 2, 2009 — April 1, 2009

The New Outcasts / Los Nuevos Olvidados Photographs by Octavio Kano-Galván

Photographer Octavio Kano-Galván’s initiation into art began when he was six years old at the Taller infantil de artes plásticas in Mexico City. He completed his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at the…

February 4, 2009 — March 1, 2009

Assignment Middle East and Africa: Selected Work from Photojournalist Paul Taggart

In conjunction with University Center Activities Board, Cultural and Contemporary Events Program: Paul Taggart is a photojournalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, and National Geographic.

January 1, 2009 — January 1, 2009

Tiffany Glass: ‘A Riot of Color’

November 16, 2008 — March 22, 2009

The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is pleased to be the first venue to kick off the national tour of The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, an exhibition presenting views…

November 13, 2008 — March 22, 2009

The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery

October 24, 2008 — January 31, 2009

Highlights from the George W. Roper, II Collection

The Museum is pleased to have on temporary loan, selected highlights from the private collection of George W. Roper, II. It includes a wonderful portrait of the Duke of Montfoort by Jan Mierevelt,…

September 5, 2008 — November 2, 2008

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astrological Prints from the Mendillo Collection

September 5, 2008 — November 2, 2008

Diving with a Camera: Photographs by Dennis Liberson

April 11, 2008 — June 26, 2008

Impressions and Expressions: Modern Masters of American Printmaking

January 25, 2008 — November 18, 2024

Pursuing Perfection: Highlights and Select Loans from the Museum Collection

The Muscarelle Museum of Art first opened its doors in 1983, but The College of William & Mary began acquiring art centuries earlier, in 1732, when the Third Earl of Burlington donated to…

November 16, 2007 — December 16, 2007

Legacy of the Generations: Jacob Lawrence’s Legend of John Brown

September 6, 2007 — December 16, 2007

America the Beautiful: The Monumental Landscape of Clyde Butcher

September 6, 2007 — November 12, 2007

Building a College: The Colonial Revival Campus at The College of William & Mary

June 16, 2007 — July 29, 2007

Stars & Stripes: Rare and Historic American Flags

May 5, 2007 — July 29, 2007

Visions of the Soul: Works by Hans Friedrich Grohs

April 21, 2007 — May 1, 2007

An American Story: The Wyeth Family Tradition In Art

February 10, 2007 — April 8, 2007

David Roberts: Nineteenth-Century Views of Egypt and the Holy Land on Loan from Friends of the Reeves Center

February 10, 2007 — April 8, 2007

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Contemporary Native American Paintings and the Response to Colonization

February 10, 2007 — April 8, 2007

The Faithful Samurai: Kuniyoshi Woodblock Prints

October 28, 2006 — January 7, 2007

10th W&M Faculty Show

August 26, 2006 — October 8, 2006

The Tsar’s Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts Under the Romanovs

April 8, 2006 — June 4, 2006

Lewis Cohen: Five Decades, Drawings & Sculptures, A Retrospective

January 21, 2006 — March 26, 2006

Tapestries: The Great Twentieth Century Modernist

November 5, 2005 — January 8, 2006

Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection

August 27, 2005 — October 23, 2005

Charles E. Burchfield: Backyards and Beyond

June 11, 2005 — August 14, 2005

American Drawing Biennial 8 & American Drawing Biennial: Selections from the Past

April 2, 2005 — May 29, 2005

Animals in African Art from the Collection of Wallace Gusler

January 22, 2005 — March 20, 2005

9th W&M Faculty Show Faculty Choice

November 6, 2004 — January 9, 2005

Live with History: Photographs from the Archives of the New York Times

August 28, 2004 — October 24, 2004

Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge

June 12, 2004 — August 15, 2004

With Paintbrush & Shovel – Preserving Virginia’s Wildflowers

April 3, 2004 — May 30, 2004

Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection

January 24, 2004 — March 21, 2004

American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement

November 1, 2003 — January 11, 2004

William & Mary Collects II: A Celebration & Looking Back 20 Years

August 23, 2003 — October 19, 2003

Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye, Nature Morte Ten by Appel

May 31, 2003 — August 10, 2003

Georgia O’Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art

February 1, 2003 — April 1, 2003

Reconstructing Forms: Contemporary Sculpture by Amaldo Pomodoro

February 1, 2003 — April 1, 2003

Winslow Homer the Illustrator: His Wood Engravings, 1857 – 1888

October 10, 2002 — January 12, 2003

Windows on the West: Views from the American Frontier – The Phelan Collection

August 24, 2002 — October 6, 2002

Ken Aptekar: Painting Between the Lines, Works from 1990 – 2000

March 30, 2002 — May 12, 2002

Machines of the Mind, Sculpture by Lawerence Fane

February 1, 2002 — March 17, 2002

African & African-American Works of Art from the Permanent Collection

January 26, 2002 — March 17, 2002

8th W&M Faculty Show Selections by Art History Faculty

November 11, 2001 — January 27, 2002

In Memoriam – Howard Finster

October 21, 2001 — January 13, 2002

Huda Lufti: A Contemporary Artist from Egypt

August 18, 2001 — October 7, 2001

Shaped with Passion: The Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Collection of Japanese Ceramics from the 1970’s

July 14, 2001 — August 12, 2001

James Rosenquist: Pop Print Maker & Pop Triumphant: The New Realism

June 9, 2001 — October 7, 2001

The Solar Wall: Past, Present & Future?

May 5, 2001 — July 7, 2001

Quilt National 1999: The Best in Contemporary Quilts

March 3, 2001 — April 29, 2001

American Twentieth-Century Watercolors at the Munson – Williams – Procter Arts Institute

January 27, 2001 — April 27, 2001

Georgia O’Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist’s First Public Exhibition in the South

January 13, 2001 — February 25, 2001

Picasso: 25 Years of Edition Ceramics from the Edward & Ann Weston Collection

November 4, 2000 — January 7, 2001

New Acquisitions

August 26, 2000 — October 29, 2000

Bridges and Boundaries Revisited: African Americans & American Jews

June 3, 2000 — July 25, 2000

American Drawing Biennial VII

March 25, 2000 — May 21, 2000

Crossed Purposes: Joyce and Max Kozloff Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode

January 22, 2000 — March 19, 2000

Lifting the Rose – Colored Glasses: Three Social Realists Works in Progress

January 4, 2000 — January 7, 2001

Robert Natkin: Themes & Variations

October 2, 1999 — January 16, 2000

A Forgotten Williamsburg: J.J. Lankes Prints

August 28, 1999 — September 26, 1999

Imagining the World through Native Painting: Popular Art from Ibero America

August 27, 1999 — September 26, 1999

Mexico! Photographs by Manuel Carrillo

May 29, 1999 — July 11, 1999

Mapping the West: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photographs from the Collection of the Boston Public Library

May 29, 1999 — August 22, 1999

More than Words: Book Illustrations of J.J. Lankes

March 25, 1999 — May 21, 1999

Drawings and Paintings by Henry Coleman

March 20, 1999 — August 1, 1999

Facing the Past: Portraits from the Permanent Collection

January 16, 1999 — March 14, 1999

All-Stars: American Sporting Prints from the Collection of Reba & Dave Williams

October 24, 1998 — January 9, 1999

American Drawing Biennial 6 Looking Back: A Decade of ADB Exhibitions

August 26, 1998 — October 18, 1998

Hung Lui: A Ten Year Survey 1988 – 1998

August 26, 1998 — March 21, 1999

Selections from the Maria Herman Lania Print Collection

August 26, 1998 — October 18, 1998

Ties That Bind & Exhibitions of Iban Ikat Fabrics

July 11, 1998 — August 16, 1998

African Sculpture: The Gift Collection of Robert C. McCarthy & Paul D. McCarthy, W&M ’77

May 2, 1998 — June 28, 1998

Diversity! Studio Art Quilts Weather Permitting

February 28, 1998 — April 26, 1998

7th W&M Faculty Show

October 25, 1997 — December 7, 1997

Memories of Brooklyn American Painting from the Tweed Museum

August 23, 1997 — October 19, 1997

Contemporary American Indian Art: The Joe Fedderson Collection

August 23, 1997 — October 19, 1997

Inuit II: From the Collection of Frederick & Lucy S. Herman

June 14, 1997 — August 17, 1997

Building Form: Ansel Adams & Architecture

March 15, 1997 — May 25, 1997

Memories of Childhood: So We’re Not the Cleavers or the Brady Brunch

January 11, 1997 — March 9, 1997

Will Barnet and Bob Blackburn, An Artistic Friendship in Relief

December 7, 1996 — January 5, 1997

Collector’s Choice

December 7, 1996 — January 5, 1997

Recent Acquisitions

December 1, 1996 — March 9, 1997

Robin Tichane: AIDS’ Dark Terrain

October 19, 1996 — December 1, 1996

Nell Blaine

August 31, 1996 — October 13, 1996

Goya! Prints by the Spanish Master

June 26, 1996 — August 25, 1996

The European Phoenix: Selections from the Maria Herman Lania Collection of Contemporary Prints

June 26, 1996 — August 25, 1996

The McCarthy Collection of African Art

April 20, 1996 — May 26, 1996

6th W&M Faculty Show

March 9, 1996 — April 14, 1996

American Drawing Biennial V

January 20, 1996 — March 3, 1996

Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria & Albert Museum

December 9, 1995 — March 3, 1996

Constance Stuart Larrabee: Time Exposure

October 21, 1995 — December 3, 1995

African-American Works on Paper

September 2, 1995 — October 15, 1995

NCECA 1995 Clay National

May 27, 1995 — August 27, 1995

Before Discovery: Artistic Development in the Americas Before the Arrival of Columbus

April 1, 1995 — May 21, 1995

The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten

February 25, 1995 — March 26, 1995

Drawings & Watercolors by Hans Grohs

February 25, 1995 — May 21, 1995

The Reverend James Blair: Preparatory Models & Drawings for the Stature by Lewis Cohen

January 14, 1995 — February 19, 1995

Artisans in Silver, 1994

January 14, 1995 — May 21, 1995

Cityscapes (Portfolio from the Permanent Collection)

January 14, 1995 — February 19, 1995

Works by Warhol Prints from the Permanent Collection

August 13, 1994 — October 9, 1994

Leadership Arts of West Africa

August 13, 1994 — October 9, 1994

Master Impressions

August 13, 1994 — October 9, 1994

The Conceptual Canvas: Abstract Expressionism Paintings from the Museum’s Jean Outland Chrysler Collection

May 14, 1994 — July 1, 1994

Robert Ranieri Animalia

March 19, 1994 — May 1, 1994

Nissan Engel: Nouvelles Dimensions The Book of Art

January 15, 1994 — March 6, 1994

American Drawing Biennial IV

November 20, 1993 — January 2, 1994

Beasts of Vision

November 20, 1993 — January 2, 1994

Contemporary Inuit Drawings: The Gift Collection of Frederick & Lucy S. Herman

October 16, 1993 — November 14, 1993

5th W&M Faculty Show Architectural Drawing by Sir Christopher Wren

August 21, 1993 — October 10, 1993

Gifford Beal: Picture-Maker

August 21, 1993 — October 10, 1993

In the Spirit of Jefferson A Photographic Essay Competition

August 21, 1993 — October 10, 1993

Reynolds Beal: American Impressionist

August 21, 1993 — October 10, 1993

The American Scene: Prints from the 1920’s & 1930’s from the Museum Collection

August 21, 1993 — October 10, 1993

The Burns Collection

May 29, 1993 — August 1, 1993

African Sculpture from the McCarthy Collection

April 3, 1993 — May 16, 1993

Collaboration: Mountain Lake Workshop

January 23, 1993 — March 21, 1993

A Golden Age of Painting: Dutch, Flemish & German Paintings of the the 16th – 17th Centuries from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

January 23, 1993 — March 21, 1993

The Fine Art of Drawing: Works on Paper from the Museum and the Herman Foundation Collections

April 18, 1987 — June 9, 1987

Italian Renaissance Art 1300 – 1600: Selections from the Piero Corsoni Gallery

February 28, 1987 — April 12, 1987

Old Master Drawings from the Collection of John & Alice Steiner

January 17, 1987 — February 22, 1987

Modern Primitives of Spain

November 28, 1986 — January 11, 1987

Animation Art from the Disney Studio

October 18, 1986 — November 23, 1986

Classic Bolivian Textiles

October 1, 1986

Colonial Portraits from the Permanent Collection

August 30, 1986 — October 12, 1986

Red Grooms: The Graphic Work

June 14, 1986 — August 24, 1986

Woodblock Prints by Un’ichi Hiratsuki Selections from the Museum Collection

April 19, 1986 — June 1, 1986

Contemporary Ceramics Maria Herman Lania Print Collection

March 8, 1986 — April 13, 1986

The Creative Printmaker & Caricatures by James Gillray

January 18, 1986 — March 2, 1986

Adornments & Sacral Art

November 29, 1985 — January 5, 1986

Cheek and the Arts

October 18, 1985 — November 1, 1985

1st Faculty Show French Photographs by Edouard Boubat & Robert Doisneau

August 25, 1985 — November 17, 1985

Modernism in America: 1937 – 1941 Portraits from the College Art Collection

June 1, 1985 — November 17, 1985

Color Nature Landscapes II, A Photographic Portfolio

April 24, 1985 — May 4, 1985

19th Century German Drawings from the Frederick & Lucy S. Herman Foundation

April 24, 1985 — August 11, 1985

Selections from the Collection of the Alex Hillman Family Foundation

March 3, 1985 — May 4, 1985

20th Century American Printmakers from the Whitney Museum of American Art

March 1, 1985 — April 15, 1985

Radiant Spirit: Medieval Church Art from the Walters Art Gallery

January 25, 1985 — March 18, 1985

Michael Singer: Ritual Series 1982 Pine & Rocks

January 11, 1985 — February 25, 1985

Gene Davis: Child & Man Collaboration

October 18, 1984 — January 1, 1985

Kashmir & Rajasthan Photographs by Ragubir Singh

October 8, 1984 — January 10, 1985

Into the Melting Pot: The Immigration of American Modernism (1909 – 1929)

August 13, 1984 — October 7, 1985

Spirit & Ritual: Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Morse Collection

June 18, 1984 — July 26, 1984

Contemporary American Drawings from the Frederick & Lucy S. Herman Foundation

May 11, 1984 — July 9, 1984

In Search of Light: Spanish Painters from 1850 – 1950

April 27, 1984 — June 11, 1984

Drawings by Bill Berry

February 4, 1984 — April 30, 1984

Late 20th Century Art from the Sydney & Frances Lewis Foundation

December 17, 1983 — January 31, 1984

Selections to Furnish the President’s House

October 21, 1983 — December 21, 1983

Form, Function, & Finesse: Drawings from the Frederick & Lucy Herman Foundation

October 21, 1983 — January 20, 1983

William & Mary Collects