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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.


Storybook Hour
Storybook Hour
Friday, March 13, 2026
10:30 AM
Family
Yoga at the Muscarelle
Yoga at the Muscarelle
Saturday, March 14, 2026
10:30 AM
Wellness
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

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.


Still life with cherries, peach and grapes
REAM, CARDUCIUS PLANTAGENET
Oil on canvas
12 1/4 x 10 ins. (30.7 x 25.4 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisition Fund
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
Singing the Roof Off
AMBROSE-SMITH, NEAL
2016
Monotype
32 x 44 ins.
Untitled
WHITE, MINOR
Circa 1959
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 1/8 x 5 3/8 ins. (20.6 x 13.8 cm)
Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr.
L’Éveil Du Géant (The Awakening of the Giant)
MIRÓ, JOAN
1938
Etching with drypoint on ivory wove paper
Sheet: 17 x 12 3/4 ins. (43.4 x 32.5 cm); Image: 10 5/8 x 9 3/8 ins. (27.0 x 23.7 cm) Image: 10 5/8 x 9 3/8 ins. (27.0 x 23.7 cm)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Peinetón
CORCUERA TERÁN, MARÍA SILVIA
1993-1996
Paper, gauze and wood with Styrofoam insert
43 1/4 x 35 3/8 x 7 1/2 ins. (109.9 x 89.9 x 19.0 cm)
Gift of the artist
Apotre Jean Journet, partant pour la Conquete de l’Harmonie
COURBET, GUSTAVE
c. 1850
Lithograph on chine appliqué
Sheet: 9 ¾ (24.9)x 6 13/16 (17.4) ; Image: 9 ½ (24.2) x 6 ¾ (17.1)
Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment
Abstraction
LAZZELL, BLANCHE
4/1929
Watercolor and pencil
Sheet: 9 x 5 7/8 ins. (22.8 x 15.9 cm)
Purchase, Museum Acquisition Fund and Jean Outland Chrysler Memorial 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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