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Colby Museum spring exhibitions examine empire

… William Merritt Chase form the core of the historical collection, along with significant holdings of American folk art. The modern movement is represented by artists including John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Mitchell, Isamu Noguchi, and Alma Thomas. The museum also maintains a significant collection of contemporary American art including works …

Schooner Bowdoin: From Arctic Explorer to Maritime Teacher–POSTPONED

We encourage our guests to attend this Maine Maritime Museum talk, the themes of which overlap with the Colby Museum exhibition Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing. 

Eric Jergensen, Assistant Professor of Marine Transportation at Maine Maritime Academy, will share his knowledge of navigation onboard the historic arctic schooner Bowdoin, including the vessel’s history …

Colby faculty and staff guest edit special edition of The Brooklyn Rail

… William Merritt Chase, form the core of the historical collection, along with significant holdings of American folk art. The modern movement is represented by artists including John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Mitchell, Isamu Noguchi, and Alma Thomas. The Museum also maintains a significant collection of contemporary American art, including works …

Lunder Institute for American Art receives generous gift from Ossorio Foundation to fund creative production

… William Merritt Chase, form the core of the historical collection, along with significant holdings of American folk art. The modern movement is represented by artists including John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Mitchell, Isamu Noguchi, and Alma Thomas. The Museum also maintains a significant collection of contemporary American art, including works …

Recent Acquisitions: 2017

… oeuvre in Norway.
Twentieth-century European art has been underrepresented in the Museum, but these Munch prints will now have robust company, thanks to the gift of The Norma Boom Marin Collection of German Expressionist Prints. Marin, the widow of John Marin Jr. and the daughter-in-law of the acclaimed American artist John Marin

Contemporary Highlights

Complementing the modern and contemporary works on view in the Alfond-Lunder Pavilion, this installation features select recent acquisitions presented alongside works by artists long represented in the Museum’s collection. Included are monumental works by Elizabeth Murray and Claudio Parmiggiani, a selection of Andy Warhol Polaroids, drawings by Marina Adams, Rackstraw Downes, Annabel Daou …

Speakers

… Photographing American History, and Maine History, among others.  She is the co-author of Maine Photography: A History, 1840-2015 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 (Yale University Press, 2011).  She has recently curated exhibitions at the University of New England, the University of Southern Maine, the Penobscot Marine Museum,

Speakers

… exhibitions for the Art Institute including Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography; Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, and its sequel, John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism. Her most recent exhibition was Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy.
Aileen Tsui is the Nancy L. Underwood associate …

Senior Art Exhibition

… at the closing moments of their college careers. We want to share this miraculous moment with our friends, family, professors, and anyone who would like to rejoice with a little food and drink.
The featured artists are:
Jonah Belk
Charlie Dupee
Claire Edelman
Lindsay Freter
Jackie Tavella
Natalie Thompson
Barrie Tovar
Hannah Tuttle
Marina Wells

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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