General VMFA news releases

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VMFA Issues Call for Entries for 2010 Muse Awards

VMFA to Increase Public Hours Significantly

Powerful South-Asian Ivory Female Figure Is Acquired by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Nomination deadline is May 1

Museum to be open daily following grand opening, with extended gallery hours on Thursday evenings

Also added to collection are Contemporary American works, Géricault prints, African jewelry and Art Nouveau dressing service

1880s Worsham-Rockefeller Bedroom Is Given to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

VMFA Acquires Fischer Collection of German Expressionism, Considered to Be One of the Finest of Its Kind in Existence

VMFA Acquires Painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister, First African-American Artist to Win Widespread Acclaim

Richmonder turned New York socialite’s aesthetic bedroom comes to her hometown

Acquisition brings VMFA’s holdings to international significance

Variety of additional works also added to collection

VMFA Annual Report

Fred Tomaselli “Woodpecker” Painting Purchased by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

VMFA Acquires “Spectacular” Picture Scroll from India and 1888 Oil Portrait by “Best Woman Painter in History”

VMFA Annual Report in downloadable PDF format

William Wylie's “Carrara” photograph is also added to collection

Also added are Gothic Revival table, Aesthetic metalwork, East-Asian objects, and early 20th-century photographs

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts History

Sculpture Garden Fact Sheet

Lewis Galleries of Mid to Late 20th-Century Art

A history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

3.5-acre Sculpture Garden will be heart of museum's campus when expansion is completed

One of the finest postwar collections in a comprehensive U.S. museum

Fabergé Collection Fact Sheet

Mellon French Collection Fact Sheet

African Collection Fact Sheet

The Lillian Thomas Pratt Collection of Russian Imperial Jewels by Peter Carl Fabergé

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon includes exquisite examples of 19th- and 20th-century painting by the most well-known artists of the period

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection of African art is regarded as one of the strongest in the United States

South Asian Collection Fact Sheet

British Silver Collection Fact Sheet

British Sporting Art Collection Fact Sheet

VMFA is the home to one of America's premier collections of South Asian art

Noble Silver: The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Virginia Museum's collection of British sporting art is one of the largest and most important in the United States

American Collection Fact Sheet

Himalaya Collection Fact Sheet

Lewis Decorative Arts Collection Fact Sheet

VMFA is an important center for the study of American visual culture

VMFA's Himalaya collection has expanded dramatically to become one of North America's finest

One of the most significant public collections outside Paris of Art Nouveau and Art Déco

Ancient Collection Fact Sheet

Collection includes objects from Egyptian, Near Eastern, Aegean, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Byzantine cultures