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The Sun Never Sets: Photographs and Prints of Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico from the Hispanic Society Museum and Library

Detailed engraving portrait of an elderly person seated frontally in a large wooden chair with finials. The figure wears a simple loose shirt and a patterned, striped sarong or wrap around their lap, resting their hands on their legs against a shaded, crosshatched background.

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Why Look at Horses?

Black-and-white images depicting the gradual movements of a person on a horse.

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Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas

A vertical portrait of a person whose face and neck are covered in white pigment. Their head and face are tightly bound in a grid-like "trap" or cage made of pink and black braided fabric. The subject looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression against a plain white background.

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By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth

A photograph of a dimly lit, rustic wooden attic space. In the center of the dark wooden floor, an open rectangular hatch leads to the floor below. A small window on the left lets in bright white light, and a single lit wall sconce glows near a slanted ceiling beam. A mysterious, faint blue horizontal blur floats in the center of the frame.

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Alex Katz | Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey

An abstract ink wash painting in reddish-orange on white paper, featuring thick, vertical strokes and gestural blotches that suggest a dense thicket of trees.

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Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2026

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Tseng Kwong Chi: East Meets West

Black and white portrait of Tseng Kwong Chi standing in front of the Hollywood sign.

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Alex Katz: Quick Things Passing

A vertical composition featuring a light-grey and white tree trunk positioned slightly off-center. The trunk is surrounded by a lush canopy of vibrant green leaves, rendered in flat, rhythmic dabs of light and dark green paint. The perspective looks slightly upward into the bright foliage.

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Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond

An abstract painting featuring a background wash of soft purples and greys. Various shapes are layered on top, including a cluster of pink, red, and purple watercolor-like shapes in the upper right. A dominant orange shape is centered within a large black irregular circle. Splatters of black and white paint, thin dark lines resembling branches, and smaller turquoise, white, and purple shapes are distributed across the composition.

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Global Crossings: Selections from the Lunder Collection

A hazy, luminous oil painting of Venice at sunset. Pale yellow light from a central sun reflects on the water, illuminating a cluster of sailboats with colorful sails. The city skyline and the dome of Santa Maria della Salute are visible as misty silhouettes in the background. Two figures sit on a small stone pier in the lower right foreground.

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Mαwte: Bound Together

An intricately and colorfully beaded artwork depicting a river and river bed with trees.

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Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali

In a black and white drawing by Laylah Ali, A stylized portrait features a figure adorned with intricate black and white patterns.

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Japanese Ukiyo-e and American Woodblock Printmaking

Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print depicting a brown horse cropped closely on the left side, grazing near a small stream lined with red flowers. In the grassy distance, another horse stands near a lone pine tree, with Mount Fuji visible on the horizon beneath a yellow-to-blue gradient sky.

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2025 Faculty Biennial

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Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

A surreal painting of two ladders in a dark landscape, one reaching a crescent moon and the other a pink cloud.

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Love Your Langlais: A Community Curates

A carved, stained, painted, and blackened wood sculpture of a lion's face and mane with wire whiskers.

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Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2025

A banner of multiple images of artwork in the 2025 Senior Art Exhibition.

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Photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Black and white portrait of a barefoot man standing outdoors with arms crossed against a textured wall dappled with tree shadows. He wears light-colored, thin-striped long clothing, holding a wide-brimmed hat under one arm and a woven shoulder bag over the other.

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Stan Douglas | Hors-champs

Dark gallery space with a projected black-and-white image showing two men in conversation, one seated and the other leaning in

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Radical Histories: Chicanx Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

A person with butterfly wings featuring words like "MIGRANTE" and "QUEERNESS" stands against a yellow background.

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