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Undated photo of the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va. In July, it unveiled a bronze plaque that acknowledges the Indigenous Peoples who are affiliated with the land on which the museum sits. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Gosscj at English Wikipedia, who has released it into the public domain.

Chrysler Museum of Art unveils bronze plaque acknowledging Indigenous Peoples

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Undated photo of the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va. In July, it unveiled a bronze plaque that acknowledges the Indigenous Peoples who had held the land on which the museum sits. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Gosscj at English Wikipedia, who has released it into the public domain.

Undated photo of the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va. In July, it unveiled a bronze plaque that acknowledges the Indigenous Peoples who are affiliated with the land on which the museum sits. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Gosscj at English Wikipedia, who has released it into the public domain.

NORFOLK, Va. – The Chrysler Museum of Art recently unveiled a bronze plaque recognizing the Indigenous Peoples, the traditional stewards of Tsenacommacah, the land on which the museum is located. The plaque is placed in Huber Court. The acknowledgment affirms the Chrysler Museum’s commitment to honoring the Indigenous Peoples whose cultural heritage and artwork is currently held in its collection.

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After being informed of its origins in winter 2022, the Chrysler Museum has returned a circa-1600 Akwanshi Head, a stone Bakor monolith, to Nigeria. The piece was given to the museum in 2012; neither the museum nor its donors were aware it had been looted. Image courtesy of the Chrysler Museum of Art

Chrysler Museum of Art returns Bakor monolith to Nigeria

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After being informed of its origins in winter 2022, the Chrysler Museum has returned a circa-1600 Akwanshi Head, a stone Bakor monolith, to Nigeria. The piece was given to the museum in 2012; neither the museum nor its donors were aware it had been looted. Image courtesy of the Chrysler Museum of Art

After being informed of its origins in late winter, the Chrysler Museum has returned a circa-1600 Akwanshi Head, a stone Bakor monolith, to Nigeria. The piece was given to the museum in 2012; neither the museum nor its donors were aware it had been looted. Image courtesy of the Chrysler Museum of Art

NORFOLK, Va. – The Chrysler Museum of Art and the National Commission for Museums and Monuments Nigeria (NCMM) have collaborated on the restitution of an original Bakor monolith from the village of Njemetop in Cross River State to Nigeria.

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Detail, Paul McCartney (English, b. 1942-), ‘Self-portraits in a mirror,’ Paris 1964. Photograph. ©1964 Paul McCartney

Chrysler Museum to show Paul McCartney’s own photos documenting Beatlemania

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Paul McCartney (English, b. 1942-), ‘Paul McCartney, self portrait,’ London, 1963-4. Photograph, ©1963-4 Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney (English, b. 1942-), ‘Paul McCartney, self portrait,’ London, 1963-4. Photograph, ©1963-4 Paul McCartney

NORFOLK, Va. – The Chrysler Museum of Art will present Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm from December 5 through April 7, 2024. Traveling from the National Portrait Gallery in London to Norfolk, the Chrysler Museum of Art will be the first venue in the United States to host this major exhibition, burnishing the Chrysler’s reputation as an institution committed to the presentation of the diverse histories of photography through exhibitions and the permanent collection.

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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000), ‘Market Scene,’ 1966. Gouache on paper. Chrysler Museum of Art, museum purchase 2018.22. © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Nigerian artist Jacob Lawrence and Mbari Club explored at Virginia exhibition

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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000), ‘Market Scene,’ 1966. Gouache on paper. Chrysler Museum of Art, museum purchase 2018.22. © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000), ‘Market Scene,’ 1966. Gouache on paper. Chrysler Museum of Art, museum purchase 2018.22. © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

NORFOLK, Va. – Through January 8, 2023, the Chrysler Museum of Art is exhibiting Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. It represents the debut museum presentation of Jacob Lawrence’s Nigeria series of paintings and drawings and also the first in-depth look at the international artists who were members of the renowned Mbari Artists and Writers Club, many of whom Lawrence met during an extended stay in Nigeria in 1964. These artists, including Lawrence, contributed to Black Orpheus, a radical arts and culture journal published in Nigeria between 1957 and 1975.

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Chrysler Museum of Art exhibits exceptional collection of prints

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Robert Motherwell, (American, 1915-1991), ‘Red Sea I,’ 1976. Aquatint and etching. Lent by Susan and David Goode. © 2022 Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Robert Motherwell, (American, 1915-1991), ‘Red Sea I,’ 1976. Aquatint and etching. Lent by Susan and David Goode. © 2022 Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

NORFOLK, Va. – The Chrysler Museum of Art has welcomed an extraordinary collection of modern prints on loan. Lasting Impressions: Prints from the Collection of David R. and Susan S. Goode will be on view until November 6. This exhibition was announced earlier this year following the Goodes’ $2.5 million donation to the museum to establish the Goode Works on Paper Center and a group of 100 photographs by O. Winston Link, which will be added to the Chrysler collection during the next three years.

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Chrysler Museum of Art receives $34M gift from Joan Brock

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William MacGregor Paxton (American, 1869–1941), ‘The Album,’ circa 1913. Oil on canvas. Promised Gift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection to the Chrysler Museum of Art

William MacGregor Paxton (American, 1869–1941), ‘The Album,’ circa 1913. Oil on canvas. Promised gift of the Macon and Joan Brock collection to the Chrysler Museum of Art

NORFOLK, VA. – The Chrysler Museum of Art announced that Hampton Roads philanthropist Joan Brock has made a $34 million gift to the museum, including 40 works of art from the Macon and Joan Brock Collection and two position endowments, including the director of the museum. This gift will also support the expansion of the Perry Glass Studio.

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Hew Locke (Guyanese-British b. 1959-), ‘The Tourists,’ 2015. Video still. Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum for HMS Belfast, London. Images courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. © Hew Locke. This exhibition was organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art.

Chrysler Museum of Art shares beguiling multimedia works by Hew Locke

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Hew Locke (Guyanese-British b. 1959-), ‘The Tourists,’ 2015. Video still. Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum for HMS Belfast, London. Images courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. © Hew Locke. This exhibition was organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art.

Hew Locke (Guyanese-British b. 1959-), ‘The Tourists,’ 2015. Video still. Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum for HMS Belfast, London. Images courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. © Hew Locke. This exhibition was organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art.

NORFOLK, Va. – The Chrysler Museum of Art will present multimedia work of international acclaim in Hew Locke: The Ghostly Tourists, on view January 28, 2022 to June 26, 2022. The show marks Locke’s first solo exhibition in the southeastern region and will showcase Ghost (2015), a sculpture the Chrysler acquired in 2020, and The Tourists (2015), a film that invites viewers to join a crew on their final voyage to the Caribbean. Together, the works use satire to confront colonization and the violence of war.

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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000), ‘Market Scene,’ 1966, Gouache on paper. Museum purchase, 2018.22 © Jacob Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Chrysler Museum of Art receives $225K in grants for Jacob Lawrence show

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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000), ‘Market Scene,’ 1966, Gouache on paper. Museum purchase, 2018.22 © Jacob Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000), ‘Market Scene,’ 1966, gouache on paper. Museum purchase, 2018.22 © Jacob Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image provided by The Chrysler Museum of Art

NORFOLK, Va. – The Chrysler Museum of Art was awarded three grants totaling $225,000 from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Getty Foundation, and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. The funding will support the major exhibition Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club, co-curated by Kimberli Gant, Ph.D., the Chrysler Museum of Art’s McKinnon curator of modern & contemporary art, and Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, Ph.D., the New Orleans Museum of Art’s Francoise Billion Richardson curator of African art. The show will debut at the Chrysler Museum of Art in fall 2022 and then travel to the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Toledo Museum of Art in 2023.

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Alma Thomas, ‘Wind Dancing with Spring Flowers,’ 1969 acrylic on canvas. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, purchased through a gift from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange

Exhibition ‘Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful’ opens in Norfolk

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Alma Thomas, ‘Wind Dancing with Spring Flowers,’ 1969 acrylic on canvas. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, purchased through a gift from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange

Alma Thomas, ‘Wind Dancing with Spring Flowers,’ 1969 acrylic on canvas. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, purchased through a gift from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange

NORFOLK, Va. – Renowned artist Alma W. Thomas’ (1891-1978) artistic journey took her from Columbus, Georgia, to international acclaim. Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful will offer a comprehensive overview of her extraordinary career with more than 150 objects, including late-career paintings that have never before been exhibited or published.

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