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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: Pre-K
Storybook Hour: Pre-K
Friday, August 14, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Storybook Hour: K-5th
Storybook Hour: K-5th
Friday, August 14, 2026
2:00 PM
Family
Youth Art Show 2026
Youth Art Show 2026
Saturday, August 15, 2026
10:00 AM
FamilySpecial 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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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.


Couple, Harlem
VAN DER ZEE, JAMES
1932, printed 1974
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 3/8 x 9 7/16 ins. (18.7 x 23.9 cm); Support: 12 1/2 x 15 ins. (31.7 x 38.1 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
20150620 Lake Fire Milky Way Overlook 35mm d800e-8231.NEF
FROST, JEFF
2015
Pigment print on Epson Archival Paper
32 x 48 ins. (81.3 x 121.9 cm); Framed: 42 3/4 x 85 5/8 ins. (108.5 x 148.8 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Irises
GROHS, HANS
1912
Oil on canvas
37 7/8 x 29 5/8 ins. (96.2 x 75.2 cm)
Gift of the Frauken Grohs Collinson - Grohs Collinson Trust in honor of Miles and Marcial Chappell for the 25th Anniversary of the Muscarelle Museum of Art
Leslie
CLOSE, CHUCK
1986
Color woodblock print on Echizen Kozo Nimai Suki paper
Sheet: 32 1/8 x 25 1/4 ins. (81.5 x 64.3 cm); Image: 24 3/4 x 21 1/2 ins. (62.9 x 54.5 cm); Framed: 47 3/8 x 33 1/8 ins. (105.2 x 84 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
Baked Potato with Butter
OLDENBURG, CLAES THURE
1972
Color lithograph
Sheet: 30 3/16 x 39 5/8 ins. (76.7 x 100.7 cm); Framed: 34 1/4 x 43 5/8 ins. (86.9 x 110.8 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund
Liseuse d’Aigle (Reader of the Eagle)
HÉROLD, JACQUES
1943
Oil and pencil on press board
25 9/16 x 19 9/16 ins. (65.0 x 49.7 cm); Framed: 35 1/8 x 27 3/8 ins. (89.1 x 69 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
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
Reclining figure
KATZ, ALEX
1987
Color aquatint
Sheet: 35 1/2 x 41 3/4 ins. (90.1 x 106.0 cm); Framed: 40 7/8 x 46 1/2 ins. (103.4 x 118.2 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition 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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