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Women With Vision

In the spring of 2018, the Muscarelle Museum of Art presented Women with Vision, a milestone exhibition in anticipation of the 100-year anniversary of the first women students admitted to the College of William & Mary. The exhibition, recreated here for Virtual Muscarelle and for the 100 Years of Women celebration at William & Mary, featured paintings, drawings, works on paper and sculptures ranging across four centuries, from 1655 to 2017, by more than thirty women artists sharing their unique vision. Additional works by women artists from the permanent collection are presented online to further honor the contribution women have made in the arts.

Women with Vision presents the opportunity to see art by historically important artists such as Marguerite Gérard, Julia Margaret Cameron, Rosa Bonheur, Suzanne Valadon and Mary Cassatt. Twentieth-century leaders include Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Miriam Schapiro, Cindy Sherman, and Kiki Smith.

Georgia O’Keeffe and John Stewart Bryan, president of William & Mary, in academic procession. Times Wide World Photos, Washington Bureau Cheek Papers, University Archives, William & Mary Libraries

Among the numerous highlights is White Flower, a captivating close-up and large still life by Georgia O’Keeffe gifted to the College by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. In 1938 – just twenty years after the arrival of the first women students at the College – William & Mary granted O’Keeffe an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts.

Also represented in Women with Vision are cutting-edge contemporary artists, including Tania Brassesco, Carole A. Feuerman, Kay Jackson, Alison Saar and Kara Walker. Notable recent acquisitions include Barbara Holtz’s allegorical painting Prospects, Sue Johnson’s art historical reinterpretations, Maria Larsson’s inventive digital collage, and Doreen Reid Nakamarra’s Aboriginal Dreamtime story.

By and large, women artists have often been overlooked in the greater canon of art history. Many of the women artists in this exhibition faced prejudice and social barriers as they worked to receive recognition for their accomplishments. We are honored to showcase these remarkable achievements by women artists as we commemorate the twenty-four pioneering women who enrolled at the College as “firsts” in 1918.

Original exhibition: February 10 – May 13, 2018

Virtual exhibition launched in August 2018 to coincide with William & Mary’s year celebration and commemoration of the first women students admitted to the College in 1918.

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Exhibition List

This list is ordered chronologically (according to creation date).
= This piece is part of the online/virtual exhibition only.

ELISABETTA SIRANI

Italian, 1638 – 1665

Rest during the escape into Egypt (Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto), c. 1655
Etching and aquatint
Sheet: 7 5/8 x 8 1⁄2 ins. (19.5 x 21 cm); Image: 6 5/8 x 7 1/8 ins. (16.8 x 18.2 cm)

Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment

2012.133

MARY BEALE

English, 1633 – 1699

Mary II (1662 – 1694), when Princess of Orange, 1677
Oil on canvas
On Loan from Henry and Dixie Wolf

MARGUERITE GÉRARD

French, 1761 – 1837

Portrait of a couple (Les Expéditeurs), c. 1792
Oil on panel
Panel: 16 1/4 x 12 7/8 ins. (41.3 x 32.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment 2016.002

ANNE ALLEN after JEAN-BAPTISTE PILLEMENT

[1728 –1808] English, 1749/50 – 1808

Chinese Arabesque with man kneeling beneath a Double-roofed tent, 1798
Etching from two plates inked à la poupée on a blue tinted, white laid paper
Sheet: 10 x 9 ins. (25.4 x 23.1 cm); Plate: 7 3⁄4 x 5 1⁄2 ins. (19.8 x 13.9 cm)

Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment

2016.222

ROSA BONHEUR

French, 1822 – 1899

Cow, n.d.
Pencil on paper
Sheet: 2 7/8 x 5 3/4 ins. (7.2 x 14.5 cm)

Bottom: The Waterfall, n.d.
Pencil on paper
Sheet: 8 x 10 ins. (20.3 x 25.4 cm); Image: 5 3/8 x 7 7/16 ins. (13.7 x 19.0 cm)

Gift of Ralph H. Wark
1984.003; 1982.010

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

English, 1815 – 1879

A Study of The Cenci, 1870
Albumen print
Support: 11 3/8 x 9 1/2 ins. (29.4 x 24.2 cm); Image: 8 3/4 x 7 ins. (22.2 x 17.8 cm)

Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
2017.120

MARY NIMMO MORAN

American, 1842 – 1899

Solitude, 1880
Etching
Sheet: 9 x 12 1/4 ins. (22.9 x 31.0 cm); Image: 5 5/8 x 7 1/2 ins. (14.3 x 19.7 cm)

Gift of Christian Vinyard
2011.097

CATALINA (LINA) ZUNIE

American Indian, 1862 – 1949

Water jar, c. 1890
Earthenware, polychrome
Gift of Burt Meyers in memory of his mother, Mrs. Sallie Key Meyers

2017.085

MARY CASSATT

American, 1844 – 1926
Left: Nurse and Baby Bill (No. 2), c. 1889 – 1890
Soft ground etching and aquatint
Sheet: 12 5/8 x 9 7/8 ins. (32.0 x 25.1 cm); Image: 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 ins. (21.9 x 14 cm)
Anonymous gift
2001.015

Right: Margot in a Floppy Bonnet (No. 3), c. 1903 – 1904
Pencil on paper
Sheet: 11 3/8 x 7 7/8 ins. (28.9 x 20.0 cm); Image: 8 3/4 x 6 1/8 ins. (22.2 x 15.6 cm)
Purchase, Joseph & Margaret Muscarelle Art Endowment Fund
2001.014

SUZANNE VALADON

French, 1865 – 1938
Adèle preparing the Tub and Ketty with arms raised (Adèle préparant le Tub et Ketty aux bras levés), 1905
Soft-ground etching with drypoint on cream wove paper
Sheet: 16 5/8 x 12 ¼ ins. (42.2 x 31.2 cm); Image: 10 5/8 x 9 ¼ ins. (27 x 23.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2012.157

KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

German, 1867 – 1945
Left: Memorial for Karl Liebknecht, 1919 – 1920
Woodblock print on thick Holland wove paper
Sheet: 19 x 23 ins. (48.2 x 58.5 cm); Image: 14 x 19 ins. (35.6 x 49.5 cm)

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Purchase, the Ralph and Doris Piper Lamberson Memorial Endowment Fund
2008.220

Right: Self-Portrait, 1923
Woodblock print
Sheet: 9 3/16 x 7 5/8 ins. (23.4 x 19.5 cm); Image: 5 15/16 x 6 13/16 ins. (15.1 x 17.3 cm)

BLANCHE LAZZELL

American, 1878 – 1956
Abstraction, 1929
Watercolor and pencil
Sheet: 9 x 5 7/8 ins. (22.8 x 15.9 cm)
© Estate of Blanche Lazzell
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund and Jean Outland Chrysler Memorial Fund
1984.002

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

American, 1887 – 1986

White Flower, 1932
Oil on panel
Panel: 16 x 20 ins. (40.7 x 50.8 cm)

ANNA E. MELTZER

American, 1896 – 1976
Alexander Brook's Art Class, Art Students League, 1936
Oil on canvas
11 3/4 x 15 3/4 ins. (29.9 x 40.0 cm)
© artist or artist’s estate
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
1998.032

AUGUSTA SAVAGE

American, 1892 – 1962
Lift Every Voice and Sing, c. 1939
White metal cast with black patina
10 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 4 ins. (27.4 x 24.2 x 10.2 cm)
© artist or artist’s estate
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2016.233

LENA GURR

American, 1897 – 1992
Pitchers and Bottles, n.d.
Oil on hardboard
25 x 31 ins. (63.5 x 78.8 cm)
© artist or artist's estate
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler
1973.437

BEULAH STEVENSON

American, 1890 – 1965

Rhythm with Three Guitars, 1952

Oil on canvas

36 3/8 x 30 1/4 ins. (93.4 x 76.8 cm)

Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler

1973.436

MARGARET BURROUGHS

American, 1917 – 2010
Black Venus, 1957
Linoleum cut on imitation Japan paper

Sheet: 18 5/8 x 14 3/4 ins. (47.3 x 37.5 cm); Image: 14 x 11 1/8 ins. (35.6 x 28.3 cm)

© Estate of Margaret Burroughs
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2016.234

VIVIAN DEPINNA

American, 1883 – 1978
Untitled, 1957
Oil on canvas
51 x 69 ins. (129.6 x 175.3 cm)
© artist or artist's estate
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler
1973.455

JOAN MITCHELL

American, 1926 – 1992

Untitled, 1959 – 1960

Screenprint

Sheet: 14 1/4 x 19 9/16 ins. (36.1 x 49.6 cm)

Purchase, Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Art Endowment Fund

1994.003

LEE KRASNER

American, 1908 – 1984
Composition, 1960
from the Peace Portfolio I
Lithograph
20 7/8 x 25 13/16 ins. (53.1 x 65.7 cm)
© 2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Gift of William and Sue Anne Bangel
1991.209

PITSEOLAK ASHOONA

Canadian, 1904 – 1983
Woman and dogs, 1967
Engraving
Sheet: 12 7/8 x 9 7/8 ins. (32.8 x 25.1 cm); Plate: 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 ins. (19.7 x 15.0 cm)
© artist or artist's estate
Gift of Sheila Ellis
1982.132

IRIS YOUVELLA NAMPEYO

American Indian (Hopi), b. 1944
Nampeyo Pot, c. 1970
Ceramic with glazes
© artist or artist’s estate
The Matthews Collection
1999.016

ISABEL BISHOP

American, 1902 – 1988
Students, 1971
Oil on panel
29 1/8 x 40 1/4 ins. (73.9 x 102.2 cm)
© Estate of Isabel Bishop
Purchase, Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisition Fund
1997.116

LOUISE NEVELSON

American, 1900 – 1988

Untitled, 1973

Silkscreen

Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 ins. (30.7 x 22.9 cm); Image: 10 5/16 x 7 9/16 ins. (26.2 x 19.2 cm)

Purchase, The Jean Outland Chrysler Memorial Fund

1988.066

MARLENE JACK

American, b. 1948

Platter, 1977
Raku-fired stoneware
4 x 18 x 18 ins. (10.2 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm)

Purchase, Acquired with funds from the Gene A. and Mary A. Burns Bequest

2012.003

LILA PELL KATZEN

American, 1932 – 1998

Priapos, 1980

Stainless steel

6 3/4 x 12 5/8 x 3 1/8 ins. (17.1 x 32.0 x 7.9 cm)

Gift of Gertrude Perrin

1987.033

ALICE NEEL

American, 1900 – 1984

John, c. 1980

Color lithograph

Sheet: 27 1/2 x 21 1/4 ins. (72.8 x 53.7 cm); Image: 24 x 19 1/4 ins. (60.5 x 48.5 cm)

Gift of Lenore Sue Kent

1980.022C

PAT STEIR

American, b. 1940
Kyoto Chrysanthemum, 1982
Color woodblock print
Sheet: 16 3/8 x 21 5/8 ins. (41.6 x 54.8 cm); Image: 14 1/2 x 20 1/4 ins. (37.0 x 51.5 cm)
© Pat Steir
Purchase, Museum Purchase Funds
1997.104

JENNIFER LOSCH BARTLETT

American, b. 1941
Untitled, 1987
from the suite From Rhapsody
Sugar lift, aquatint, and spit bite over a photo-etching on BFK Rives paper
Left: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 11 15/16 ins. (30.7 x 30.4 cm); Plate: 11 15/16 x 11 3/4 ins. (30.4 x 29.9 cm)
Middle: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 12 1/16 ins. (30.4 x 30.7 cm); Plate: 11 13/16 x 11 15/16 ins. (30.0 x 30.4 cm)
Right: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 11 15/16 ins. (30.2 x 30.4 cm); Plate: 11 13/16 x 11 7/8 ins. (30.0 x 30.2 cm)
© 2018 Jennifer Bartlett
Purchase, Jean Outland Chrysler Memorial Endowment Fund
1994.188A; 1994.188B; 1994.188C

JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH

American Indian, b. 1940

Tourist Season, 1988
Acrylic and pastel on paper
30 x 40 ins. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Purchase, Museum Purchase Funds

1997.103

GUERRILLA GIRLS

American, active since 1985

Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989

from the Portfolio Compleat 1985 – 2012

Offset lithograph on poster stock

11 x 28 1/8 ins. (28 x 71.3 cm)

Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment

2017.121,24

MARLENE DUMAS

South African, b. 1953
A Long Silence, 1989
Lithograph
Sheet: 19 7/8 x 17 1/2 ins. (50.5 x 44.4 cm); Image: 9 3/16 x 9 7/8 ins. (25.8 x 25.1 cm)
© Marlene Dumas
Maria Herman Lania Print Collection; Gift of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman
1991.090

ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN

American, b. 1947
White Lines, 1991
Oil on canvas
42 1/8 x 42 1/8 ins. (107.0 x 107.0 cm)
© Rochelle Feinstein
Gift of Alan Wallach and Phyllis Rosenzweig
2011.101

KENOJUAK ASHEVAK

Canadian, b. 1927
Women Speak of Spring Fishing, c. 1991
Lithograph
Sheet: 22 1/4 x 30 ins. (56.4 x 76.2 cm); Image: 18 7/8 x 25 11/16 ins. (48.0 x 65.2 cm)
© Kenojuak Ashevak, courtesy of Dorset Fine Arts
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
1992.001

HUNG LIU

American, b. 1948

Raising the Red Lantern, 1992 – 1993
Oil on canvas
90 x 60 1/8 ins. (230.8 x 154.2 cm)

1996.085

JEANNE MOUTOUSSAMY-ASHE

American, b. 1951

Maya Angelou, 1993
Silver print with hand coloring
Sheet 20 1/8 x 15 1/4 ins. (51.2 x 38.7 cm); Image: 10 5/8 x 10 1⁄2 ins. (26.9 x 26.6 cm)

2015.027

MIRIAM SCHAPIRO

American, 1923 – 2015

In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee, 1993

Color lithograph
22 1/2 x 30 1/8 ins. (57.2 x 76.5 cm)

Museum Purchase
2000.022

NANCY SPERO

American, 1926 – 2009

Acrobat, 1994

Color screenprint

12 1/16 x 7 13/16 ins. (30.7 x 19.9 cm)

Maria Herman Lania Print Collection; Gift of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman

1996.076

ROSE PECOS-SUN RHODES

American Indian (Jemez Pueblo), b. 1956
The Storyteller on a Navajo Theme, c. 1995
Ceramic
6 3/4 x 7 x 7 ins. (16.6 x 17.7 x 17.7 cm) [irreg.]
The Matthews Collection
© artist or artist’s estate
1999.017

KARA WALKER

American, b. 1969
You Cannot Win, 1995
Ink wash and graphite on white wove paper
35 ¼ x 23 ins. (89.5 x 58.4 cm)
© 2018 Kara Walker
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2013.004

FAITH RINGGOLD

American, b. 1930
The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1996
Color lithograph
22 1/2 x 30 ins. (57.2 x 76.2 cm)
Faith Ringgold © 1996
Museum Purchase
2000.023

BEVERLY BUCHANAN

American, 1940 – 2015
Cabins at State College (S.C.), 1997
Oil pastel on paper
60 1/4 x 45 ins. (152.0 x 114.3 cm)
© Beverly Buchanan
Purchase, Gift of Alfreda Beresford Topping Lowe
1997.102

BETTY HAHN

American, b. 1940

Chamisa, 1997
Four color lithograph and photogram
Sheet: 20 1/8 x 15 1/4 ins. (51.2 x 38.7 cm); Image: 15 1/4 x 12 1/4 ins. (30.0 x 31.0 cm) [irreg.]

AMALIA MESA-BAINS

American, b. 1943
Plants of Mourning, Remembrance of Things Past, 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)
© Amalia Mesa-Bains
Purchase, the Michael Darren Kelm Memorial Fund and the Kelm-Malis Family
2000.020

ANA MARIA PACHECO

Brazilian, b. 1943

Study for St. Sebastian II, 1998

Drypoint

49 5/8 x 40 1/2 ins. (125.9 x 102.8 cm)

Gift in honor of Dr. Aaron H. De Groft by Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, Houston, Texas

2015.048

BETYE SAAR

American, b. 1926

The Fire Next Time: Blow Top Blues, 1998
Color lithograph, hand coloring, and collage
Sheet: 27 1/8 x 22 1/2 ins. (68.9 x 57.15 cm); Image: 27 1/8 x 22 1/2 ins. (68.9 x 57.15 cm)

© Betye Saar; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Purchase, Thomas W. & Lolita Gayle Memorial Fund
2001.030

DOREEN REID NAKAMARRA

Australian Aboriginal, 1955 – 2009

Untitled, early 2000s

Acrylic on canvas

24 ¾ x 48 3/8 ins. (62.7 x 122.7 cm)

Gift of the Thaddeus W. Tate Jr. Revocable Trust

2017.016

HELEN GARBER

American, b. 1976
Dan, 2000
Oil on panel
48 x 36 ins. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
© artist or artist’s estate
Gift of James M. Vaseleck, Jr. and Henry M. Cochran III
2008.024

NAN GOLDIN

American, b. 1953
Untitled (for Cookie Mueller), 2000
from the portfolio 1989
Chromogenic print (C-print)
© artist or artist's estate
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2012.077

KAY JACKSON

American, b. 1952

Endangered Species: Sea Horse, 2000
Gold leaf and tempera on gessoed wood
25 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 9 ins. (64.7 x 21.5 x 22.8 cm)

2014.007

CINDY SHERMAN

American, b. 1954

Untitled (for Mark Morrisroe), 2000

Chromogenic print (C-print)

Sheet: 20 1/16 x 24 3/16 ins. (51 x 61.5 cm); Image: 11 1/8 x 15 3/8 ins. (28.2 x 39.1 cm)

Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment

2012.083

LAURIE SIMMONS

American, b. 1949
Untitled (for Jimmy de Sana), 2000
from the portfolio 1989
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)
© Laurie Simmons
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2012.084

KIKI SMITH

American, b. 1954

Untitled (for David Wojnarowicz), 2000

Etching with aquatint, spitbite, and sugar lift on Hahnemühle paper

Sheet: 24 3/16 x 20 1/8 ins. (61.4 x 51 cm); Image: 23 ½ x 19 3/8 ins. (59.6 x 49.2 cm)

Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment

2012.085

JOYCE TENNESON

American, b. 1945

Dame Judi Dench, 67, 2000
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 21 1/8 x 24 1/4 ins. (53.7 x 61.6 cm); Image: 15 x 20 1/4 ins. (38.1 x 51.4 cm)

Gift of Sumit Agarwal and Madhushree Goenka (MBA, Class of 2005)
2016.267

HUDA LUTFI

Egyptian, b. 1948

Living Mummies, 2001
Acrylic on canvas, over diptych
Top: 13 3/4 x 19 7/8 ins. (34.9 x 50.5 cm); Bottom: 13 3/4 x 19 7/8 ins. (34.9 x 50.5 cm)

Gift of the artist

2002.003 A&B

BARBARA HOLTZ

American, b. 1924

Ascension: Prospects, 2002

Oil on paper
80 3⁄4 x 61 1⁄4 ins. (205.3 x 155.4 cm)

Gift of the artist
2017.088

ALISON SAAR

American, b. 1956
Lost Boys, 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)
© Alison Saar
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2017.001

TANIA BRASSESCO & LAZLO PASSI NORBERTO

Italian, b. 1986 and 1984
Left: The Black Hat, 2010
Durst Lambda print on Kodak Endura E mat paper
Sheet: 27 1⁄2 x 40 1/8 ins. (69.6 x 101.8 cm); Image: 26 x 38 1⁄2 ins. (66.1 x 97.8 cm)

Right: Pel & Ploma, 2010
Durst Lambda print on Kodak Endura E mat paper
Sheet: 27 1⁄2 x 53 ins. (70.0 x 134.6 cm); Image: 26 x 51 3/8 ins. (66.0 x 130.5 cm)
© Tania Brassesco & Lazlo Passi Norberto
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2013.009; 2013.008

CAROLE A. FEUERMAN

American, b. 1945
Left: Miniature Diver maquette, 2013
Plaster with marble base
25 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 9 ins. (64.7 x 21.5 x 22.8 cm)

Right: Miniature Diver, 2013
Bronze and gold leaf with marble base
Object with base: 24 x 11 x 9 ins. (60.9 x 20.3 x 22.8 cm); Base: 8 x 9 ins. (20.3 x 22.9)
© Carole Feuerman
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2013.043; 2013.044

JULIE BUFFALOHEAD

American Indian, b. 1972

Unravel, 2014
Lithograph on Kozo Shi wove paper
30 1/8 x 67 1⁄4 ins. (76.5 x 170.7 cm)

JUDITH GOLDEN

American, b. 1934

Children in Mexican Masks I, 2014
Hand-colored Polaroid scanned and printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art torchon paper with archival inkjet
Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2 ins. (28.1 x 21.8 cm); Image: 4 3/4 x 3 5/8 ins. (12.1 x 9.2 cm) [irreg.]

Gift of the artist
2014.031

MIWAKO NISHIZAWA

Japanese, b. 1964
College of William & Mary, 2015
Woodblock print
Sheet: 25 15/16 × 13 1/16 in. (65.88 × 33.18 cm); Plate: 23 15/16 × 11 1/16 in. (60.8 × 28.1 cm)
© artist or artist’s estate
Anonymous Gift
2015.046

SHAN GOSHORN

American (Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation or the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI)), b. 1957
Laying the Foundation, 2016
Arches watercolor paper splints printed with archival ink, acrylic paint, gold foil
32 x 8 1/2 ins. (81.2 x 21.6 cm)
© Shan Goshorn
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
2016.214

MARIA LARSSON

Swedish, b. 1970

Repercussus Introrum (Echoed Within)
from the series Tenebris Corpus, Dark[o]ness Embodied, 2016 – 2017
Archival pigment print

DEBBIE CLASHIN

American Indian, b. 1969

Untitled, 2017

Earthenware, polychrome

6 1/4 x 13 1/8 x 43 ins. (15.9 x 33.3 x 109.2 cm)

Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D.

2017.039

SUE JOHNSON

American, b. 1957
Top: Arrival, 2017
from the Up the Down Escalator: Dishing Duchamp series
HD metal print (dye sublimation) on aluminum
18 x 32 ins. (45.7 x 81.2 cm)

Bottom: Armory Show, 2017
from the Up the Down Escalator: Dishing Duchamp series
HD metal print (dye sublimation) on aluminum
18 x 32 ins. (45.7 x 81.2 cm)
© Sue Johnson
Gift of the artist
2017.089; 2017.090

This list is ordered chronologically (according to creation date).
= This piece is part of the online/virtual exhibition only.

Beyond the Exhibition

Statistics & Facts

In February 1918, the Virginia General Assembly authorized the enrollment of women students at William & Mary. This effort was championed by two powerful advocates: President of the university Lyon G. Tyler and Richmond resident Mary-Cooke Branch Munford.

Blanche Trevilian Moncure was the first woman librarian at W&M, serving from 1899 – 1902. Today, women hold jobs at the College in every department. (A Brief History: Inching Toward Co-Education)

The first women students were housed in the newly constructed Tyler Hall (now the Reves Center). Activities were organized along strict gender lines and women founded their own leadership organizations and sports teams. Presently, more women are enrolled at W&M than men.

Georgia O’Keeffe was granted an honorary degree from William & Mary in 1938 and an exhibition of eight paintings by the artist were installed in Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall in conjunction with the May 7^th commencement. In 2001, Muscarelle Museum of Art Curator Ann Madonia and then Director Bonnie Kelm, re-created the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe in Williamsburg to honor the artist’s first public exhibition in the south.

2017 marked the 50th Anniversary of African American Students in Residence to the College; they were Lynn Briley, Janet Brown and Karen Ely. The first Asian American woman, Hatsuye Yamasaki, was admitted in 1937.

Dr. Katherine A. Rowe is the first woman President in the 325-year-old history of William & Mary. She was sworn in as William & Mary’s 28^th president by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam during a ceremony in the Wren Building on July 2, 2018.

Suzanne Valadon was the first woman painter to be admitted to the prestigious Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1894.

Since the early 20th century, women have played a significant role in building art collections and museums including three women – Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller – who founded the Museum of Modern Art in 1929 and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney who founded the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1930. Modern art collector Peggy Guggenheim, instrumental in the founding and opening success of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, exhibited the first all women modern arts exhibition in 1943. Other important women collectors, philanthropists and academicians, such as Saidie Adler May, Edith Halpert, and Zora Neale Hurston helped create some of the most influential collections and exhibitions in the twentieth century.

Käthe Kollwitz, considered one of the best printmakers of the 20^th century and last great practitioner of German Expressionism, is the only woman artist to have two museums dedicated to her memory – the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne and the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin which opened in 1985 and 1986 respectively.

Today, 51% of artists are women but their work makes up only 3–5% of major museum permanent collections. (National Museum of Women in the Arts) The Muscarelle Museum of Art collection numbers close to 6,000 works of art; works by women artists number just over 400.

Between 2007 – 2013, there were 590 major art exhibitions hosted by approximately 70 US institutions. Only 27% were devoted to women artists. (National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Art Newspaper)

In 2014, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 sold for $4.4 million dollars, making it the highest value work by a woman artist sold at auction [over four hundred million dollars less than the auction record for Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, which sold in 2017 for $450.3 million, overriding the previous record of $179.4 million for a work by Picasso]. (artnet News, New York Times)

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VIRTUAL TOUR

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Navigate the tour using your mouse

Simply click inside the Virtual Tour viewport and drag your mouse to the left or right (or up and down) to look around the virtual rooms.

Take a close look at a piece

To view a clearer image of a piece, click the image marker in close proximity to the piece. Most image markers are placed on the right of the piece, a few are placed below. Some images have copyright restrictions that prevent us from displaying a hi-res image.

View labels

To view the label corresponding to a piece: click the label marker in close proximity to the piece. Most label markers are placed beside an image marker . Briefly hovering over most label markers will trigger the artist’s name and the title of the piece to display.

Moving forward and back

Throughout your tour, click the arrows pointing to the right (or up ) to advance to the next set of interactive pieces. To return to the previous set of pieces, click arrows pointing left .

Exiting the tour

At any point in your tour you can simply to scroll the full webpage down and click the button labeled “Exit the Virtual Tour” (below the Virtual Tour viewport).

At the end of the tour there is a icon. This will return you to the exhibition “lobby”. Clicking the icon will start the tour over.

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