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… 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 by Alex Katz, Richard Serra, Agnes Martin, Sol LeWitt, Maya Lin, Kara Walker, Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Terry Winters, and Julie Mehretu. Other principal areas of the collection include …

… the fact that they embrace artists, their perspectives, and their legacies. At Colby, we have important groups of works by major artists such as James McNeil Whistler, Alex Katz, Terry Winters, other artists associated with Skowhegan or with Maine more broadly, to name a few. Artists are also partners in the present tense, something that …

… Katz donated more than 400 of his works to the Colby College Museum of Art. The construction of the Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz—which now has nearly 900 Katz works—makes the Colby Museum one of the few in the United States with a wing devoted solely to the …

David C. Driskell
June 7, 1931–April 1, 2020

David Clyde Driskell, Blue Pines, 1959. Oil on canvas, 36 x 29 in. (91.4 x 73.7 cm). Gift from the Alex Katz Foundation and Museum purchase from the Jere Abbott Acquisitions Fund. Accession Number: 2017.388.

David C. Driskell was one of the greats …

… 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 by Alex Katz, Agnes Martin, Sol LeWitt, Maya Lin, Kara Walker, Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Terry Winters, and Julie Mehretu. Other principal areas of the collection include Greek and …

… Cabinet.
A memorial service at Colby for Schupf will be scheduled.
Image: Alex Katz (1927 – ), Portrait of Paul Schupf, n.d., 20th century, graphite on paper. Gift of Paul J. Schupf LL.D. ’06, Lifetime Trust, Gregory O. Koerner, Trustee, The Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz. Accession Number: 2018.136.