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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.


Figure Drawing Monday: Emotional Figure Drawing
Figure Drawing Monday: Emotional Figure Drawing
Monday, March 16, 2026
5:00 PM
Workshop
Curator’s Lecture: Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Curator’s Lecture: Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
5:00 PM
Lecture
Film Screening: Showing Up
Film Screening: Showing Up
Thursday, March 19, 2026
2:00 PM
Film Screening

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 7, 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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Upcoming

America’s Tapestry: 13 Colonies. 13 Stories. 1 Nation.

June 19, 2026 — September 20, 2026
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Collection Highlights

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


Via delle Tombe in Pompei
BAZZANI, LUIGI
1906
Watercolor
Image: 14 3/8 x 19 15/16 ins. (36.5 x 50.6 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Girl at Piano
BOTKIN, HENRY ALBERT
1934 - 1935
Oil on board
24 1/4 x 20 1/8 ins. (61.6 x 51.1 cm)
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler
New York from Governor’s Island
PENNELL, JOSEPH
1915
Etching and drypoint
Sheet: 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 ins. (21.9 x 32.0 cm); Image: 7 1/2 x 11 7/8 ins. (19.0 x 30.0 cm)
Gift of Christian Vinyard
Dondon
LAWRENCE, JACOB
1992
Silkscreen on Bainbridge two-ply rag paper
18 3/8 x 28 1/4 ins. (46.7 x 71.8 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment with additional funds provided by the Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment
Virginia with Hair Band
MYERS, JEROME
1911
Black and colored chalk
14 15/16 x 11 9/16 ins. (37.9 x 29.4 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Downes, Grandson of the Artist, courtesy of Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Holy Family with Young St. John the Baptist
Attributed to PREISSLER, JOHANN DANIEL after BARTHOLOMAEUS SPRANGER [1546 - before 1611]
Pen and brown ink over pencil; squared in pencil and pricked for transfer
6 3/16 x 5 ins. (15.7 x 12.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Le Port de Martigues
de VLAMINCK, MAURICE
1922
Woodcut
Sheet: 16 x 19 ¼ ins. (40.8 x 58.8 cm); Image: 13 3/8 x 16 ¼ ins (34.0 x 41.4 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Coyote Koshare
FONSECA, HARRY
1982
Crayon and pastel on paper
30 3/8 x 22 ½ ins. (76.6 x 57.0 cm)
Acquired with funds provided by Pamela Goodrich Palmore and Fred Palmore

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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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