Top 40 Treasures: Chrysler Museum of Art

An accessible, lightweight, and affordable guide showing the breadth of the Chrysler’s collections through forty masterworks that are consistently on view in the museum’s galleries.

The Chrysler Museum of Art’s expansive collection contains more than 30,000 objects across history and the globe. This compelling new guide offers a snapshot of the collection through forty key works consistently on view in the Museum’s galleries in Norfolk, Virginia. Lusciously illustrated, each object is accompanied by entries by the Museum’s curators offering compelling insights into their history, makers, and meaning. Chrysler Museum of Art: 40 Works is perfect for those who want something to guide their visit throughout the galleries, or to take home with them as a souvenir of their experiences.

Mark Castro, Ph.D., is director of curatorial affairs, Chrysler Museum of Art. He is the author of Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction (Best Art Books of 2023, The New York Times) and Octavio Medellin: Spirit and Form (2022).

Lloyd DeWitt, PhD, is the former senior curator and Irene Leache Curator of
European Art, Chrysler Museum of Art.

Carolyn Swan Needell is the Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. She is, most recently, a co-author of The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art (2023) and editor of Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body (2023.

Chelsea Pierce is McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Chrysler Museum of Art. Her publications include Creative Dissent: Alternative Cultures during Socialism and Beyond, 1945-1991(forthcoming) and A Shared Vision: The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art, edited by Corey Piper (2023).

Corey Piper is the Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art. Select publications include Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920 (co-editor and essayist, 2021), andSusan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era(Forthcoming).