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Museum Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday noon to 4 p.m.

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102 The Plains Road
Middleburg, Virginia 20118-1335
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  • Afield in America: 400 Years of Animal and Sporting Art

    Inaugural exhibit poster October 8, 2011 – January 14, 2012.
    Image William Tylee Ranney (American, 1813 – 1857), On the Wing, 1850, courtesy of a private collection in Pennsylvania. Image © Claudia Pfeiffer. 18 x 24 inches, $15.

  • The Voss Family, Artists of American Sporting Life

    August 29, 2008 to February 28, 2009 with image of Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond on Calatrava, 1928, by Franklin Brooke Voss. 20 x 17 inches. $5.00.

  • Pierre-Jules Mêne

    Sporting Bronzes from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. June 6 - August 23, 2008, featuring image of the artist in his studio. 14 x 22 inches. $5.00.

  • Reflections on a Life with Horses

    Paintings from Sir Alfred Munnings from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art. April 20, 2007 - March 29, 2008 of the painting, Newmarket Start (1947), 31 x 26 inches. $10.00.

  • Masterpieces of European & American Sporting Art

    19th- and 20th-Century, Paintings from the Collection of Joan Irvine Smith National Sporting Library, April 21, 2006-April 2007,featuring painting by Charles Towne (British, 1763-1840), Gentleman on a Galloping Chestnut, 1819. 18 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches. $5.00.

  • Forever in Full Cry: Four Artists' Portraits of Foxhunters

    Winter 2006, featuring painting by John Frederick Herring, Sr. (1795-1865), Gentleman on Horseback Jumping a Fence. 18 x 12 inches. $5.00.

  • Animals in Art

    Summer & Fall 2005. 13 x 15 1/2 inches. $5.00.

  • Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

    From the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art April 18 - June 10, 2005. 20 x 13 inches. $5.00.

  • This is the National Sporting Library

    October 2004 - April 2005, 18 x 10 1/2 inches. $5.00.

  • Eugene Connett III: The Golden Era of the Derrydale Press

    October 6, 2003 - June 30, 2004, Featuring Over the Open from the series Foxhunting in America, by Franklin B. Voss. Copyright 1939 by The Derrydale Press. Courtesy of The Sporting Gallery and Bookshop, Inc., New York. 18 x 26 inches. $10.00.

  • Sporting Silhouettes: the Mellon Weather Vane Collection

    March - August 2003. 14 x 18 inches. $5.00.

  • Sojourn at Home

    Sporting Paintings from the Paul Mellon Bequest to the Yale Center for British Art. October 2002 - March 2003, Featuring Study of a Saddled Bay Hunter (1828) by John Ferneley Sr. (1782-1860), 18 x 14 inches. $5.00.

  • Inspired Animation: The Art of Wesley Dennis

    September 21 - November 2001. 14 x 18 inches. $5.00.

  • Art Between Hard Covers

    Illustrations from the Rare Book Room of the National Sporting Library. October 13, 2000 - March 13, 2001. Featuring detail from Barefoot: The Winner of the St. Leger at Doncaster, 1823, by J.F. Herring from Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster from the Year 1815 to the Year 1824, Inclusive (Doncaster: Sheardown and Son, 1825). 22 x 28 inches. $10.00.

  • Costive

    A favourite FOX HOUND the property of the Right Honorable the Earl of Darlington. After painting by H.B. Chalon. Engraved by W. Ward, A.E. Reprinted by The Chronicle of the Horse. 20 x 17 inches. $5.00.