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Abstract Expressionists: The Women

Now through April 26, 2026

Featuring close to fifty paintings created by thirty-two important women artists between 1936 and 1977 in New York, California and Paris.


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, April 24, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Figure Drawing Monday: Extended Poses II
Figure Drawing Monday: Extended Poses II
Monday, April 27, 2026
5:00 PM
Workshop
Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, May 1, 2026
10:30 AM
Family

On View

Abstract Expressionists: The Women

January 23, 2026 — April 26, 2026
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James Sullivan: Thinking Sculpture | Sculpture Thinking

February 28, 2026 — June 14, 2026
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First Looks & Favorites from the Permanent Collection

February 28, 2026 — June 7, 2026
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Where Late the Sweet Birds: Selected Works of Morgan Bulkeley, 1984-2025

August 27, 2025 — Ongoing
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — Ongoing
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Upcoming

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

June 19, 2026 — September 6, 2026
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Collection Highlights

The permanent collection at the Muscarelle dates from 1732 and has grown to nearly 8,000 objects.


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
Girl in the Anthropocene
ROMERO, DIEGO
2017
Two-color lithograph on Rives BFK paper
Sheet: 19 1/8 x 24 1/2 ins. (48.6 x 62.3 cm); Image: 15 x 21 ins. (38.0 x 53.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from The Negrotto-Sapnar Endowment for Native Studies
Alder Speaks of Feasts
SMITH, JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE
2003
Charcoal and pencil
24 1/4 x 20 ins. (61.5 x 51.1 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisitions Fund, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment, and Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment
Mother and Child – Sunlight
STEICHEN, EDWARD
1906
Photogravure
5 1/8 x 6 1/2 ins. (12.9 x 15.8 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Students
BISHOP, ISABEL
1971
Oil on panel
29 1/8 x 40 1/4 ins. (73.9 x 102.2 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisition Fund
Corn Maiden
TOYA, MARVIN
1985
Walnut
Overall: 13 1/4 ins. (height) (33.4 cm); 4 5/8 ins. (width) (12.3 cm); 3 3/8 ins. (depth) (8.6 cm)
Gift of The Matthews Collection
Reclining Nude with Kimono
PEARLSTEIN, PHILIP
1982
Line etching and aquatint
Sheet: 11 3/16 x 9 3/16 ins. (28.3 x 23.3 cm); Plate: 10 3/16 x 8 ins. (25.7 x 20.3 cm); Framed: 18 x 15 5/8 ins. (45.6 x 39.6 cm)
Purchase, Enid W. and Bernard B. Spigel Endowment Fund
The Sailmakers
van VLIET, JAN GEORG
c. 1632-1635
Etching
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 1/8 ins. (25.9 x 20.7 cm); Image: 8 3/8 x 6 1/2 ins. (21.3 x 16.5 cm)
Bequest of Vernon Phillips Weaver

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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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