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Conversation with Collector Christian Levett
Conversation with Collector Christian Levett
Thursday, January 22, 2026
4:00 PM
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Members’ Opening: Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Members’ Opening: Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Thursday, January 22, 2026
5:00 PM
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Figure Drawing Monday: Gesture & Contours
Figure Drawing Monday: Gesture & Contours
Monday, January 26, 2026
5:00 PM
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia

November 14, 2025 — February 15, 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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Haiti to Harlem: Toussaint L’Ouverture & Jacob Lawrence

June 7, 2025 — January 25, 2026
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Founding the Alma Mater of the Nation

February 7, 2025 — June 14, 2026
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Abstract Expressionists: The Women

January 23, 2026 — April 26, 2026
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Collection Highlights

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

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Mimi Weddell, 85
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
Sylvester Stallone
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.
Study for an anguished woman for the Martyrdom of St. Symphorien
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
On the Wind Series VI
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
10 Stones 2
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
Cochiti Maiden
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
Landscape (Paysage)
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
Head of a young boy
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

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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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