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at the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts
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On View
Liquid Commonwealth: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia
November 14, 2025 — February 15, 2026
Learn MoreSelections from Expanded Horizons: Native American Creativity at the Intersection of Culture and Art
October 14, 2025 — January 11, 2026
Learn MoreWhere Late the Sweet Birds: Selected Works of Morgan Bulkeley, 1984-2025
August 27, 2025 — Ongoing
Learn MoreUpcoming
Collection Highlights
The permanent collection at the Muscarelle dates from 1732 and has grown to nearly 8,000 objects.
Explore the Collection:PaintingsDrawings and WatercolorsPrintsPhotographySculpture and ObjectsRecent Acquisitions
PETO, JOHN FREDERICK
1899
Oil on academy board
Board: 6 x 9 1/4 ins. (15.3 x 23.2 cm); Framed: 12 1/8 x 15 1/4 ins. (30.7 x 48.8 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisition Fund
Oil on academy board
Board: 6 x 9 1/4 ins. (15.3 x 23.2 cm); Framed: 12 1/8 x 15 1/4 ins. (30.7 x 48.8 cm)
Purchase, Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns Art Acquisition Fund
NOONEY, DINANDA H.
1976
Black and white silver print
Sheet: 10 x 8 ins. (25.1 x 20.3 cm); Image: 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 ins. (24.5 x 19.4 cm)
Gift of Dinanda H. Nooney in memory of her parents Ferdinand Hansen and Jeanne Réveillon Hansen
Black and white silver print
Sheet: 10 x 8 ins. (25.1 x 20.3 cm); Image: 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 ins. (24.5 x 19.4 cm)
Gift of Dinanda H. Nooney in memory of her parents Ferdinand Hansen and Jeanne Réveillon Hansen
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, HENRI DE
1898
Lithograph
Sheet: 15 7/16 x 12 7/16 ins. (39.3 x 31.6 cm); Image: 11 9/16 x 9 9/16 ins. (29.5 x 24.4 cm); Framed: 20 5/8 x 18 7/8 ins. (52.5 x 47.7 cm)
Gift of Robert E. Sullivan in memory of Elizabeth M. (Nicki) Sullivan, 1995
Lithograph
Sheet: 15 7/16 x 12 7/16 ins. (39.3 x 31.6 cm); Image: 11 9/16 x 9 9/16 ins. (29.5 x 24.4 cm); Framed: 20 5/8 x 18 7/8 ins. (52.5 x 47.7 cm)
Gift of Robert E. Sullivan in memory of Elizabeth M. (Nicki) Sullivan, 1995
JACK, MARLENE
1977
Raku-fired stoneware
4 x 18 x 18 ins. (10.2 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm)
Purchase, Acquired with funds from the Gene A. and Mary A. Burns Bequest
Raku-fired stoneware
4 x 18 x 18 ins. (10.2 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm)
Purchase, Acquired with funds from the Gene A. and Mary A. Burns Bequest
ROVERE, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA called IL FLAMMENGHINO
Pen and ink, and wash
Sheet: 8 11/16 x 11 1/2 ins. (22.1 x 29.2 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Sheet: 8 11/16 x 11 1/2 ins. (22.1 x 29.2 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
DAUMIER, HONORÉ
Lithograph, printer's proof
10 1/4 x 14 7/8 ins. (26.0 x 37.8 cm)
Museum purchase, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment, Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment and the Enid W. and Bernard B. Spigel Endowment Fund
10 1/4 x 14 7/8 ins. (26.0 x 37.8 cm)
Museum purchase, Julian W. Fore Muscarelle Endowment, Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Endowment and the Enid W. and Bernard B. Spigel Endowment Fund
ROWLANDSON, THOMAS
After 1793
Black chalk
Sheet: 6 9/16 x 6 3/4 ins. (16.7 x 17.1 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
Black chalk
Sheet: 6 9/16 x 6 3/4 ins. (16.7 x 17.1 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
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
6 3/16 x 5 ins. (15.7 x 12.8 cm)
Gift of the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Foundation
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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