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America’s Tapestry: 13 Colonies. 13 Stories. 1 Nation. and Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 4, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
First Friday: Twilight Twirl
First Friday: Twilight Twirl
Friday, September 4, 2026
5:00 PM
Special Event
Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 11, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
September 11 Open House
September 11 Open House
Friday, September 11, 2026
12:00 PM
Special Event

On View

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

June 19, 2026 — September 6, 2026
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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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Lewis Cohen: Forms of Inquiry

August 28, 2026 — January 3, 2027
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — Ongoing
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Collection Highlights

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


Capriccio
School of FRANCESCO GUARDI [1712 - 1793]
c. 1770
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 17 3/4 x 23 1/8 ( 45.1 x 58.7 cm); Sight: 17 3/8 x 22 5/8 ins.; Framed: 22 1/2 x 27 3/4 ins. (57.4 x 70.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
The Engraver (Le Graveur)
BONNARD, PIERRE
Etching on yellow-toned paper
Sheet: 12 7/16 x 9 3/4 ins. (31.6 x 24.7 cm); Plate: 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 ins. (19.8 x 12.1 cm)
Purchase
Portrait of the three daughters of Robert Saunders Jr., Margaret, Mariana Barbara (c. 1830 – 1865), and Lelia Page (c. 1834 – unknown)
CRAWLEY, JOHN R. SR.
1838
Oil on canvas
53 x 40 ins. (134.6 x 101.6 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Page Wilmer Poindexter and Dr. Cary Breckinridge Wilmer
Martha Graham
WARHOL, ANDY
1979
Polacolor Type 108 print
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 ins. (10.8 x 8.6 cm)
Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
St. Vincent Ferrer preaching
MURA, FRANCESCO DE
Pen and ink, and wash
Sight: 7 7/8 x 5 7/16 ins. (20.0 x 13.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
The Blue Hat
CLEMENT, SHIRLEY
c. 1967
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 18 11/16 x 26 13/16 ins. (47.5 x 60.1 cm); Framed: 29 1/8 x 37 1/4 ins. (73.7 x 94.6 cm)
Gift of the National Academy of Design, Henry W. Ranger Fund
Boquet de Roses et de Marguerites (Bouquet of Roses and Daisies)
DUFY, JEAN
1926
Watercolor on paper
Sheet: 18 15/16 x 25 1/8 ins. (48.1 x 63.7 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
Abstraction
LAZZELL, BLANCHE
4/1929
Watercolor and pencil
Sheet: 9 x 5 7/8 ins. (22.8 x 15.9 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund and Jean Outland Chrysler Memorial Fund

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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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