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Muscarelle Museum of Art
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Muscarelle Museum of Art in 2009
Muscarelle Museum of Art is located in Virginia
Muscarelle Museum of Art
Location within Virginia
Established1983 (1983)
LocationCollege of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
TypeArt museum
AccreditationAmerican Alliance of Museums
Collection size6,000 objects
Websitemuscarelle.wm.edu

Coordinates: 37°16′05″N 76°42′57″W / 37.2679526°N 76.7158878°W / 37.2679526; -76.7158878

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is a university museum affiliated with the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. While the Museum only dates to 1983, the university art collection has been in existence since its first gift – a portrait of the physicist Robert Boyle – in 1732. Most early gifts to William & Mary relate to its history or the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Gifts of portraiture were the foundation of the early collection and include many First Families of Virginia (FFV) including sitters from the Page, Bolling and Randolph families.[1]

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University museum

University museum

A university museum is a repository of collections run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research within the institution of higher learning. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in England is an early example, originally housed in the building that is now the Museum of the History of Science. A more recent example is the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, originally constructed as a hotel in 1796 it is now the official museum of the University of Bath.

College of William & Mary

College of William & Mary

The College of William & Mary is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High Research Activity". In his 1985 book Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities, Richard Moll included William & Mary as one of the original eight "Public Ivies".

Williamsburg, Virginia

Williamsburg, Virginia

Williamsburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 15,425. Located on the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg is in the northern part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is bordered by James City County on the west and south and York County on the east.

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. He was a devout and pious Anglican and is noted for his writings in theology.

First Families of Virginia

First Families of Virginia

First Families of Virginia (FFV) were those families in Colonial Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. They descended from English colonists who primarily settled at Jamestown, Williamsburg, the Northern Neck and along the James River and other navigable waters in Virginia during the 17th century. These elite families generally married within their social class for many generations and, as a result, most surnames of First Families date to the colonial period.

History

Throughout the years, gifts of art continued to accumulate including a donation of White Flower by Georgia O'Keeffe given to William & Mary in 1938 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. This major work in the collection had indiscriminately "decorated" various campus walls, old and new, until it was re-discovered by President Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. in the 1970s. Graves tasked Dr. Miles Chappell, from the department of art and art history, to make a college-wide inventory. It was at that time that the immensity and importance of the growing collection was understood and the need for a university museum became apparent.

With the support of numerous alumni, including a major benefactor, Joseph L. Muscarelle (W&M '27) and his wife Margaret, the Muscarelle Museum of Art opened in 1983 with Dr. Glenn D. Lowry as director. In 1987, the second director, Mark Johnson oversaw the expansion of the facility and the first American Alliance of Museums accreditation in 1988. Subsequent accreditations came in 2000 under then-director Dr. Bonnie Kelm, and in 2012 under former director Dr. Aaron De Groft. David M. Brashear was appointed as interim director in January 2019, and in June 2020 was named as the museum's fifth director.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism".

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family through her marriage to financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., the son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller Sr.. Her father was Nelson W. Aldrich who served as the Senator of Rhode Island. Rockefeller was known for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art.

Thomas Ashley Graves Jr.

Thomas Ashley Graves Jr.

Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. was an American academic who was the twenty-third president of the College of William & Mary, serving from 1971 to 1985. He next served as director of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library from 1985 to 1992. His personal papers as well as his papers from his time as president of the College of William & Mary, are held by the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William & Mary.

Glenn D. Lowry

Glenn D. Lowry

Glenn David Lowry is an American art historian and director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 1995. His initiatives there include strengthening MoMA's contemporary art program, significantly developing the collection holdings in all media, and guiding two major campaigns for the renovation, expansion, and endowment of the museum. He has lectured and written extensively in support of contemporary art and artists and the role of museums in society, among other topics.

American Alliance of Museums

American Alliance of Museums

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), formerly the American Association of Museums, is a non-profit association whose goal is to bring museums together. Founded in 1906, the organization advocates for museums and provides "museum professionals with the resources, knowledge, inspiration, and connections they need to move the field forward."

Aaron De Groft

Aaron De Groft

Aaron Herbert De Groft is an American museum director, author, and art curator. He was the former director for the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary before he joined the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida in 2021. He was fired from the latter position in June 2022 amid a scandal caused by possible inauthentic Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings and an FBI raid.

Current activities

Today the collection numbers over 6,000 works. Of particular note are Colonial American and English seventeenth and eighteenth century portraits; a survey collection of original prints and drawings from the fifteenth through the twenty-first centuries including Japanese prints and a major collection of German Expressionist works by Hans Grohs; and the Jean Outland Chrysler collection of American modern works interpreted in oils, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture. Recent acquisitions include European master works by such artists as Luca Giordano and Luca Forte, historic photographic works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Carleton E. Watkins and Edward S. Curtis, as well as contemporary Native American works by Kay WalkingStick, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, and Cara Romero.

Plans are underway to renovate and expand the existing museum to create a state of the art facility as part of the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts[2] designed by world-renowned architects Pelli Clarke & Partners. The expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art will provide additional gallery space for both traveling exhibitions and the permanent collection as well as create additional space for lectures, events, and programming.[3]

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Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain.

Luca Forte

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Luca Forte was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly as a still-life painter in Naples.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and women, for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature, and for sensitive portraits of men, women and children.

Edward S. Curtis

Edward S. Curtis

Edward Sherriff Curtis was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people. Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings.

Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick is a Native American landscape artist and a member of the Cherokee Nation. Her later landscape paintings, executed in oil paint on wood panels often include patterns based on Southwest American Indian rugs, pottery, and other artworks.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a Native American visual artist and curator. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and is also of Métis and Shoshone descent. She is also an art educator, art advocate, and political activist. She has been prolific in her long career, and her work draws from a Native worldview and comments on American Indian identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues.

Emmi Whitehorse

Emmi Whitehorse

Emmi Whitehorse is a Native American painter and printmaker. She was born in Crownpoint, New Mexico and is a member of the Navajo Nation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and grew up on the open land northeast of Gallup, New Mexico in a family where only the Navajo Language was spoken.

Cara Romero

Cara Romero

Cara Romero is a Chemehuevi photographer from the United States. She is known for her dramatic digital photography that examines Indigenous life through a contemporary lens. She lives in both Santa Fe, NM and the Mojave Desert.

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition Start Date End Date
Shared Ideologies, Selected works by Native American artists from the 1970s to the Present September 1, 2021 February 13, 2022
Forever Marked By The Day September 10, 2021 January 23, 2022
1619 / 2019 November 6, 2019 January 26, 2020
Women with Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection February 10, 2018 May 13, 2018
In the Light of Caravaggio: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from Southeastern Museums February 10, 2018 May 13, 2018
Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection September 2, 2017 January 14, 2018
Fred Eversley: 50 Tears an Artist: Light & Space & Energy September 2, 2017 December 10, 2017
The Bones of the Earth: Scholars Rocks and the Natural World in Chinese Culture, Selections from the Robert Turvene Collection April 21, 2017 August 13, 2017
The Art and Science of Connoisseurship February 11, 2017 August 13, 2017
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities February 11, 2017 April 5, 2017
Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America's Indian School September 10, 2016 January 8, 2017
Contemporary American Marine Art: 17th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists September 10, 2016 December 2, 2016
Norman Rockwell and the Boy Scouts February 6, 2016 August 21, 2016
Hiroshige's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō February 6, 2016 August 21, 2016
Twilight of a Golden Age: Florentine Painting after the Renaissance, masterworks from the Haukohl Family Collection April 25, 2015 January 17, 2016
Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty February 21, 2015 April 5, 2015
Tree to Mountain: The Woodblock Prints of Tōshi Yoshida October 17, 2014 February 8, 2014
21st Century Diplomacy: Ballet, Ballots and Bullets May 31, 2014 September 28, 2014
Caravaggio Connoisseurship: Saint Francis in Meditation and the Capitoline Fortune Teller February 8, 2014 April 6, 2014
Glenn Close: A Life in Costume September 28, 2013 January 12, 2014
A Brush with Passion: Mattia Preti (1613–1699) February 9, 2013 April 14, 2013
Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpieces from the Casa Buonarroti February 9, 2013 April 14, 2013
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond from the Smithsonian Art Museum September 28, 2012 January 6, 2013
Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections August 18, 2012 October 7, 2012
Seeing Colors: Secrets of the Impressionists October 20, 2011 January 22, 2012
In Memory Still: A Kiowa Legacy in Art September 10, 2011 November 13, 2011
Envelopes: Architect's Unfinished Experiments with Building "Skins" September 17, 2010 October 24, 2010
Merging Souls: Arts of Devotion in Latin America April 24, 2010 July 18, 2010
Unbearable Beauty: Triumph of the Human Spirit, Photographs by W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith April 24, 2010 July 18, 2010
Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master February 6, 2010 -
Deeply Superficial: Andy Warhol's "Voyeurism" November 7, 2009 January 17, 2010
Spanish Baroque in the New World: Sibyls from Zurbarán's Studio August 4, 2009 November 1, 2009
Tiffany Glass: A Riot of Color ("Art of Glass" ten year anniversary in Conjunction with Chrysler, Contemporary Art Center of VA, and the VA Arts Festival) April 16, 2009 July 12, 2009
The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery November 13, 2008 March 22, 2009
Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Diversity of Life in the Deep-Ocean Wilderness September 5 November 2, 2008
Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi January 25, 2008 March 23, 2008
Legacy of the Generations: Jacob Lawerence's Legend of John Brown November 16, 2007 December 16, 2007
America the Beautiful: The Monumental Landscape of Clyde Butcher September 6, 2007 December 16, 2007
Building a College: The Colonial Revival Campus at The College of William & Mary September 6, 2007 November 12, 2007
Stars & Stripes: Rare & Historic American Flags from the Collection of Mark and Rosalind Shenkman June 16, 2007 July 29, 2007
Visions of the Soul: Works by Hans Friedrich Grohs May 5, 2007 July 29, 2007
An American Story: The Wyeth Family Tradition In Art April 21, 2007 May 27, 2007
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Contemporary Native American Paintings and the Response to Colonization February 10, 2007 April 8, 2007
Medici in America, Natura Morta: Still-Life Paintings of the Medici Collections & Caravaggio's Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge November 11, 2006 January 7, 2007
The Tsar's Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts Under the Romanovs August 26, 2006 October 8, 2006
Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection November 5, 2005 January 8, 2006
Charles E. Burchfield: Backyards and Beyond August 27, 2005 October 23, 2005
Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge August 28, 2004 October 24, 2004
American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement January 24, 2004 March 21, 2004
Shaped with Passion: The Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Collection of Japanese Ceramics from the 1970s August 18, 2001 October 7, 2001
Quilt National 1999: The Best in Contemporary Quilts May 5, 2001 July 7, 2001
Georgia O'Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist's First Public Exhibition in the South January 27, 2001 April 27, 2001
Bridges & Boundaries Revisited: African Americans & American Jews August 26, 2000 October 29, 2000
Hung Liu: A Ten Year Survey 1988–1998 August 26, 1998 October 18, 1998
Ties That Bind: Iban Ikat Fabrics July 11, 1998 August 16, 1998
Inuit II: From the Collection of Frederick & Lucy S. Herman; Contemporary American Indian Art: The Joe Fedderson Collection August 23, 1997 October 19, 1997
Building Form: Ansel Adams & Architecture June 14, 1997 August 17, 1997
Nell Blaine: Retrospective October 19, 1996 December 1, 1996
Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria & Albert Museum January 20, 1996 March 3, 1996
African-American Works on Paper October 21, 1995 December 3, 1995
Before Discovery: Artistic Development in the Americas Before the Arrival of Columbus May 27, 1995 August 27, 1995
The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten April 1, 1995 May 21, 1995
The Reverend James Blair: Preparatory Models & Drawings for the Stature by Lewis Cohen February 25, 1995 May 21, 1995
Drawn on the Spot: Perceptions and Views October 15, 1994 January 8, 1995
A Golden Age of Painting: Dutch, Flemish & German Paintings of the 16th – 17th Centuries from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas; The Fine Art of Drawing: Works on Paper from the Museum and the Herman Foundation Collections January 23, 1993 March 21, 1993
Lila Katzen Quincentenary Sculpture Exhibition: Isabel, Columbus & the Statue of Liberty February 29, 1992 April 5, 1992
Rodin: Sculpture from the B. Gerald Cantor Collection February 28, 1991 April 28, 1991
Portraits & Prospects: British & Irish Drawings & Watercolors from the Collection of the Ulster Museum January 13, 1990 March 4, 1990
Photographs by David Hockney March 18, 1989 April 30, 1989
Art & the Law December 21, 1987 January 17, 1988
Photographs by Yousuf Karsh July 4, 1987 September 20, 1987
Modernism in America: 1937–1941 August 25, 1985 November 17, 1985
19th Century German Drawings from the Frederick & Lucy S. Herman Foundation April 24, 1985 May 4, 1985
Gene Davis: Child & Man Collaboration January 11, 1985 February 25, 1985
Into the Melting Pot: The Immigration of American Modernism (1909–1929) October 8, 1984 January 10, 1985
In Search of Light: Spanish Painters from 1850–1950 May 11, 1984 July 9, 1984
Late 20th Century Art from the Sydney & Frances Lewis Foundation February 4, 1984 April 30, 1984
Form, Function, & Finesse: Drawings from the Frederick & Lucy Herman Foundation October 21, 1983 December 21, 1983

Source: "Muscarelle Museum of Art", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, July 12th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscarelle_Museum_of_Art.

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References
  1. ^ "About the Muscarelle". Muscarelle Museum of Art. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  2. ^ University Advancement staff (November 18, 2016). "W&M announces new, multimillion-dollar Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts" (Press release). William & Mary College. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Muscarelle director unveils details of museum expansion".
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