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Winslow Homer, The Trapper

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Winslow Homer, The Trapper, 1870. Oil on canvas, 19 1/16 in. x 29 …


Thursday Art Party with Colby Museum Student Board

… with stickers and create friendship bracelets, inspired by imagery and themes found in current Colby Museum exhibitions. Engage with art by participating in a scavenger hunt in the galleries and listening to music. Refreshments will be provided, including catered food and alcoholic beverages for ages 21+.

Winslow Homer, The Trapper, 1870. Oil on canvas, 19 …


Jigsaw Puzzles

… experiences and knowledge. Is there anything that reminds you of your own life, or does this work of art teach you something new?

Digital jigsaw puzzles from the Colby Museum collection:

George Caleb Bingham, Landscape with Fisherman

Grafton Tyler Brown, Yellowstone Falls

John George Brown, Watching the Circus

Winslow Homer, The Trapper

Thomas Moran, Acoma


Collecting Winslow Homer

The Trapper, a painting from 1870, is one of the founding artworks of the Colby Museum’s collection. Its principal subject—man in harmony with nature—satisfied the desire among American collectors of the late 19th century for paintings that offered an alternative to the urban realities of industrialism. Drawn mostly from the Colby Museum …


Highlights from the Permanent Collection

… Disappearing Bodies of Water (2013), David Smith’s steel Voltri Bolton II (1962), and James McNeill Whistler’s oil painting Chelsea in Ice (1864). Cherished cornerstones of the collection, such as Winslow Homer’s The Trapper (1870) and Alex Katz’s Pas de Deux (1983), are on view, as are recently acquired works by Joshua …


Colby College Museum of Art to Present Bernard Langlais Retrospective in Summer 2014

… smonumental marble sculpture Disappearing Bodies of Water (2013), a meter box by Donald Judd (1977), and Robert Mangold’s 18 acrylic and pencil drawings (1991) given by the Alex Katz Foundation. Cherished cornerstones of the collection, such as Albert Bierstadt’s View of Chimney Rock (1860) and Winslow Homer’s The Trapper (1870) will be …


Peggy Weil: 88 Cores

88 Cores descends two miles through the Greenland ice sheet in one continuous pan. It is a time machine that transports the viewer through 110,000 years of climate history, which can be read in the banding and the trapped particulates of seasonal snowfall.
To generate her four-and-a-half-hour video, Weil worked …


Banner Image: Sanford Robinson Gifford, A Twilight in the Adirondacks, 1864, Oil on canvas, 10 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in., The Lunder Collection, 2013.130
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