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6 unusual facts about Colby College Museum of Art


Colby College Museum of Art

With lectures from artists including Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Jacob Lawrence, and others, The Skowhegan School of Art lecture archive represents the depth and breadth of post-war American art.

In the early 1950s, Adeline and Caroline Wing gave paintings by William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth to Colby College.

More than 300 etchings and lithographs make up the Whistler Collection, representing some of the rarest and most beautiful impressions by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

In 2000, Richard Serra's monumental 4-5-6 was installed in the Paul J. Schupf Sculpture Court.

The Colby College Museum of Art is the sole repository of Terry Winters's entire archive of prints.

The Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies is dedicated to nurturing, producing, and disseminating original scholarship and critical analysis of James Abbott McNeill Whistler and his international artistic circles.


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Recent exhibitions include Nowhere But Here, curated by Alex Katz at Colby College Museum of Art, also featuring Chantal Joffe, Elizabeth Peyton and Chuck Close.


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