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Abstract Expressionists: The Women Buy Tickets

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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, February 27, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Figure Drawing Monday: Figure & Drapery
Figure Drawing Monday: Figure & Drapery
Monday, March 2, 2026
5:00 PM
Workshop
Jazz Night
Jazz Night
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
7:00 PM
W&M Students
From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism
From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
5:00 PM
Lecture

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 14, 2026
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Losing Todd: A Mother’s Journey

October 16, 2025 — March 15, 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 — June 14, 2026
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Collection Highlights

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


Children of Paradise
SCHAPIRO, MIRIAM
1984
Lithograph and collage
Sheet: 31 3/4 x 47 3/4 ins. (80.5 x 121.7 cm); Framed: 57 1/2 x 41 1/4 ins. (146 x 104.8 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
Madre Segrada
HARDRIDGE, STARR
2023
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 ins.
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Female Figures
CARREÑO, MARIO
1970
Black ink on buff-colored paper
Sheet: 16 ½ x 11 3/4 ins (42 x 30 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
A Long Silence
DUMAS, MARLENE
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)
Maria Herman Lania Print Collection; Gift of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman
Master Ndebele Painter Esther Mahlangu, South Africa
BECKWITH, CAROL ||FISHER, ANGELA
1996
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 30 x 24 ins. (76.2 x 60.9 cm) Image: 28 x 21 3/8 ins. (71.1 x 54.4 cm)
Gift of Sumit Agarwal & Madhushree Goenka, MBA Class of 2005
Untitled (for Cookie Mueller)
GOLDIN, NAN
2000
Chromogenic print (C-print)
24 1/8 x 20 1/16 ins. (61.3 x 50.9 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Dot
COLE, WILLIE
2012
Intaglio and relief
Sheet: 63 1/2 x 22 1/2 ins. (162.6 x 58.4 cm); Framed: 67 9/16 x 26 9/16 ins. (171.8 x 67.6 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Pieta
FREEDMAN, JILL
1978
Silver gelatin print
14 x 10 7/8 ins. (35.6 x 27.6 cm)
Gift of Jon Gilbert Fox and Darrell Hotchkiss

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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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