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Square + Triangle: Home in the Colby Museum’s Collection

A ceramic object that depicts a folded plate with a cityscape adorned nine houses.

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Into the Wind: American Weathervanes

A weathervane in the shape of a black stallion.

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Works on Paper: Drawn to Memory

Abstract artwork with overlapping angular shapes in earthy tones and misty background.

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Some American Stories

Decorative vessel with a textured, spiky surface and blue accents on a dark background.

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Martha Diamond: Deep Time

Abstract watercolor of a dome-shaped form in red and orange with a light blue border on a plain background.

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Surface Tension: Etchings from the Collection

Monochromatic etching of two women at a table in a dimly lit room. A small bowl is on the table.

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Alive & Kicking: Fantastic Installations by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, and Gladys Nilsson

A detail of an installation by Gladys Nilsson, a wall painting Rounding Rosie's Ring, Dance You Fools, Dance.

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Eastman Johnson and Maine

A painting by Eastman Johnson titled Boy in the Maine Woods, c 1868.

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2024 Senior Exhibition

A designed checkerboard banner with nine different works of art from the 2024 Senior Exhibition.

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A Lot More Inside: Esopus Magazine

A stack of eleven issues of ESOPUS magazine fanned out against a white background.

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The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury

A 1979 constructed, wooden sculpture that is painted black by Louise Nevelson.

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Playscape: Contemporary Art from the Colby Museum’s Collection

A painting of a baseball game with a very flattened perspectival treatment.

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2023 Faculty Biennial

A still from Takahiro Suzuki's Super8 Film transferred to video titled electric moonlight.

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Bill Morrison: Cycles & Loops

A still from Blue Dancers (detail), a 2K video by Bill Morrison. Original source material unknown. 35mm film, black and white, 19 sec. (loop). Sourced from the Library of Congress. Courtesy of the artist.

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Constellations: Forming the Collection, 1973–2023

A green monochrome oil on canvas portrait of two women outside, one sitting on a bench and one standing near her, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1891.

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Come Closer: Selections from the Collection, 1978–1994

A black and white photographic self-portrait by David Wojnarowicz with his face buried in the dirt, 1991/2018.

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Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change

A street scene etching and drypoint in dark brown ink of a Fish Shop in Chelsea by James McNeill Whistler, 1886.

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Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village

Stylized landscape painting of adobe buildings under a dramatic, swirling sky.

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2023 Senior Exhibition

A checkerboard layout design featuring different pieces by the graduating 2023 Seniors.

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Alex Katz: Repetitions

A painting by Alex Katz of a dense forest with tall brown tree trunks and intersecting branches.

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