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Forever Marked By The Day: A Quarter Century of Mourning and Renewal


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Friday, October 2, 2026
10:30 AM
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First Friday: Fall into Art!
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Friday, October 2, 2026
5:00 PM
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Avant Garden at An Occasion for the Arts
Saturday, October 3, 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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Visions of the West

November 13, 2026 — March 7, 2027
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Collection Highlights

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


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
Untitled
CALDER, ALEXANDER
c. 1972
Color lithograph on Arches paper
Sheet: 25 3/8 x 19 5/8 ins. (64.6 x 49.7 cm)
Gift of Gertrude Perrin
Guanajuato, Guanajuato
CARRILLO, MANUEL
1960
Selenium-toned silver print
Sheet: 14 1/8 x 11 1/16 ins. (35.9 x 28.1 cm); Image: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 ins. (23.5 x 18.2 cm)
Gift of Frank Christopher
Seascape
BRICHER, ALFRED THOMPSON
1870
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Sight: 7 1/2 x 14 1/2 ins. (18.9 x 36.9 cm); Framed: 18 1/4 x 25 1/2 ins. (46.5 x 64.7 cm)
Gift of Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns
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
Aus der Tierlegende (From the Animal Legend)
MARC, FRANZ
1912
Woodblock print
Sheet: 10 5/16 x 13 11/16 ins. (26.2 x 34.7 cm); Image: 7 13/16 x 9 1/2 ins. (19.8 x 24.1 cm)
Gift of William Fleming Kenan, Professor at the College of William and Mary, 1983
Squaw Dance (Plate 24)
MOPOPE, STEPHEN
1929
Color pochoir
Sheet:
Gift of Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
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.

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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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