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


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 11, 2026
10:30 AM
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September 11 Open House
September 11 Open House
Friday, September 11, 2026
12:00 PM
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Yoga at the Muscarelle
Yoga at the Muscarelle
Saturday, September 12, 2026
10:30 AM
Wellness
Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, September 18, 2026
10:30 AM
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On View

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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Collection Highlights

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


Birth of a Hero
PORTER, EDWIN DAVID
1952
Oil on canvas
40 5/8 x 50 3/8 ins. (103.1 x 127.9 cm)
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler
Disrobing of Christ
WOLGEMUT, MICHAEL
Woodblock print with printed text and tempera embellishments on back
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 7 11/16 ins. (26.6 x 19.5 cm); Image: 9 7/8 x 7 1/16 ins. (25.1 x 17.9 cm)
Gift of the Carnegie Collection
Pitcher with visage
PICASSO, PABLO
1969
White clay with glaze and paint
12 1/2 x 3 1/2 diam. ins. (31.6 x 9.0 cm)
Gift of Rene A. Henry, W&M '54
Study of two women and a man with a dog
MORGENSTERN, JOHANN FRIEDRICH
Graphite
Sheet: 3 7/8 x 5 7/16 ins. (10.0 x 13.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
White Aspens and Hillside
PORTER, ELIOT
May 1975
Dye transfer print
Support: 27 1/8 x 31 1/8 ins. (68.8 x 79.0 cm); Image: 18 x 22 3/4 ins. (45.7 x 57.8 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
Flowers in a Vase
DICKINSON, PRESTON
c. 1924
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 20 x 14 ins. (50.8 x 35.7 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisition Fund
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
Proto-Urbis
MORRISON, GEORGE
1958
Oil on canvas
57 x 79 ins. (144.8 x 200.6 cm)
Gift of Jean Outland Chrysler

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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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