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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.


Figure Drawing Monday: Drawing with Props
Figure Drawing Monday: Drawing with Props
Monday, March 30, 2026
5:00 PM
Workshop
Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, April 3, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
First Friday
First Friday
Friday, April 3, 2026
5:00 PM
Special Event

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 20, 2026
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Collection Highlights

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


Scene from Spenser’s Faerie Queene
HAMILTON, WILLIAM
1797
Oil on canvas
18 x 12 1/2 ins. (45.8 x 31.8 cm)
The Brass Bowl
STEICHEN, EDWARD
1906
Halftone
7 5/8 x 6 3/8 ins (19.3 x 16.3 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Le Port de Martigues
de VLAMINCK, MAURICE
1922
Woodcut
Sheet: 16 x 19 ¼ ins. (40.8 x 58.8 cm); Image: 13 3/8 x 16 ¼ ins (34.0 x 41.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Color Symphony
BLACKBURN, ROBERT
1960
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Sheet: 18 5/8 x 25 1/4 ins. (47.3 x 63.7 cm); Image: 15 1/2 x 22 ins. (40.1 x 55.7 cm) [irreg.]
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Barrera-Rosa’s
COTTINGHAM, ROBERT
1986
Color lithograph
Sight: 14 5/8 x 38 11/16 ins. (36.4 x 98.3 cm); Image: 13 1/8 x 37 5/8 ins. (33.4 x 95.5 cm); Framed: 49 x 25 ins. (124.3 x 63.4 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
Mirror Image
ROSEBERG, CARL ANDERSON
1968
Carrara marble
21 1/2 h. x 17 1/8 w. x 13 ins. d. (54.6 x 43.5 x 33.1 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Roseberg
Ringelreihe (Ring-around-the-rosie) / Walther, Edeltrude, and Hans Kühn
KÜHN, HEINRICH
1903
Photogravure, gum bichromate
12 1/4 x 12 5/8 ins. (31.2 x 32 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Brushstrokes
LICHTENSTEIN, ROY
1967
Color screenprint on white wove paper
22 x 30 ins. (55.6 x 76.3 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment

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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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