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Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 18, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Community Art Day
Community Art Day
Saturday, September 19, 2026
11:00 AM
ConcertFamilySpecial EventW&M Students
Figure Drawing Monday: Gesture and Contour
Figure Drawing Monday: Gesture and Contour
Monday, September 21, 2026
5:00 PM
Workshop
Director’s Tour – Forever Marked by the Day
Director’s Tour – Forever Marked by the Day
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
2:00 PM
Tour

On View

Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal

June 26, 2026 — January 3, 2027
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Photography From 1870 to Tomorrow: Pioneers and Innovators

June 2, 2026 — Ongoing
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Resilient Beauty: Selections from the Native American Art Collection

May 15, 2026 — Ongoing
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The Great American Birthday Quilt

June 10, 2026 — Ongoing
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18th-20th Century American Paintings

May 15, 2026 — Ongoing
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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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Lewis Cohen: Forms of Inquiry

August 28, 2026 — January 3, 2027
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Collection Highlights

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


Study of two women and a man with a dog
MORGENSTERN, JOHANN FRIEDRICH
Graphite
Sheet: 3 7/8 x 5 7/16 ins. (10.0 x 13.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
White Aspens and Hillside
PORTER, ELIOT
May 1975
Dye transfer print
Support: 27 1/8 x 31 1/8 ins. (68.8 x 79.0 cm); Image: 18 x 22 3/4 ins. (45.7 x 57.8 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Teapot
BERNHARD, RUTH
1976 (printed later)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 10 1/2 x 12 1/4 ins. (26.7 x 31.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Portrait of an old woman
MATSON, GRETA
Pencil, crayon, and ink on paper
14 x 11 7/8 ins. (35.6 x 30.3 cm)
Gift of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman
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.
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
Saint Potentinus
UNKNOWN
c. 1500
Pen and brown ink
Sheet: 10 3/16 x 6 1/8 ins. (25.9 x 15.5 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
If God Has Bestowed Beauty
PAINTER, NELL IRVIN
2012
Conté crayon and graphite on paper
Framed: 32 x 26 5/8 ins. (81.4 x 67.5 cm)

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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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