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Edward Valentine’s Life and Career
Essay: An in-depth look at Edward Valentine's artistic and museum pursuits.
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Internship Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to your most pressing questions about interning with the Valentine.
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The Early Valentine Museum, 1898–1930
Essay: The Valentine Museum opened in Richmond on November 21, 1898. Fifty years earlier, museum founder Mann Satterwhite Valentine II (1824-1892) noted: “Today I thought of procuring relics of all places dear to my memory.”
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Edward Valentine’s Studio
Essay: Edward Valentine’s artist’s studio first served as a carriage house with stable and bath for Thomas Green. Valentine acquired the structure in 1871 and converted it into his studio, where he worked for nearly 50 years.
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Monument Avenue: Origins and Reverberations
Experience the past and present of Richmond’s Monument Avenue through an augmented reality guided walking tour.
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125th Anniversary
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Racist Caricatures by Edward Valentine
Essay: Edward Valentine (1838-1930) was a Richmond sculptor and brother of the founder of the Valentine Museum. Best known for his busts and statues of Confederate soldiers, his three sculptures of Black Richmonders are a disturbing subset of his work that express the explicit racism of the 1860s and 1870s.