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at the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts
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On View
Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia
November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026
Learn MoreWhere Late the Sweet Birds: Selected Works of Morgan Bulkeley, 1984-2025
August 27, 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.
Explore the Collection:PaintingsDrawings and WatercolorsPrintsPhotographySculpture and ObjectsRecent Acquisitions
TENNESON, JOYCE
2000
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 20 1/4 x 24 1/4 ins. (51 1/5 x 61 3/10 cm); Image: 15 1/4 x 20 1/16 ins. (38 3/5 x 51 cm)
Gift of Sumit Agarwal & Madhushree Goenka, MBA Class of 2005
Archival pigment print
Sheet: 20 1/4 x 24 1/4 ins. (51 1/5 x 61 3/10 cm); Image: 15 1/4 x 20 1/16 ins. (38 3/5 x 51 cm)
Gift of Sumit Agarwal & Madhushree Goenka, MBA Class of 2005
WARHOL, ANDY
1980
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.
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.
INGRES, JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE
1824
Black chalk
Sheet: 8 1/8 x 6 7/8 ins. (20.7 x 17.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Black chalk
Sheet: 8 1/8 x 6 7/8 ins. (20.7 x 17.5 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
CHEN, ROBERT
2006
Mixed media on canvas
Framed: 60 x 60 ins. (152.4 x 152.4 cm); Canvas: 51 1/4 x 51 1/4 ins. (130 x 130 cm)
Gift of the artist
Mixed media on canvas
Framed: 60 x 60 ins. (152.4 x 152.4 cm); Canvas: 51 1/4 x 51 1/4 ins. (130 x 130 cm)
Gift of the artist
CAGE, JOHN
1989
Spitbite, aquatint, and sugarlift on smoked paper
Sheet: 23 x 18 5/16 ins. (58.4 x 46.6 cm); Image: 14 x 16 ins. (35.5 x 40.7 cm); Framed: 41 1/8 x 33 1/8 ins. (104.4 x 84.1 cm)
Purchase, Museum Aquisition Fund
Spitbite, aquatint, and sugarlift on smoked paper
Sheet: 23 x 18 5/16 ins. (58.4 x 46.6 cm); Image: 14 x 16 ins. (35.5 x 40.7 cm); Framed: 41 1/8 x 33 1/8 ins. (104.4 x 84.1 cm)
Purchase, Museum Aquisition Fund
ROMERO, DIEGO
2019
Clay and pigment
12 1/2 x 5 1/4 ins. (diameter x depth)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Clay and pigment
12 1/2 x 5 1/4 ins. (diameter x depth)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
VALTAT, LOUIS
c. 1898
Oil on canvas
Framed: 36 1/8 x 42 ins. (91 x 107.3 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Oil on canvas
Framed: 36 1/8 x 42 ins. (91 x 107.3 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Circle of CARACCIOLO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
Pen and brown ink
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 6 1/8 ins. (16.6 x 15.6 cm)
Purchase, Enid W. and Bernard B. Spigel Endowment Fund
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 6 1/8 ins. (16.6 x 15.6 cm)
Purchase, Enid W. and Bernard B. Spigel Endowment Fund
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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