Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art
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Established 1959 (1959)
Location 5600 Mayflower Colina
Waterville, Maine, United States
Type Art museum
Website www.colby.edu/museum

The Colby Higher Museum of Fine art is an fine art museum located on the campus of Colby Higher in Waterville, Maine. Founded in 1959 and now comprising 5 wings, nearly viii,000 works and more than 38,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Colby College Museum of Art has built a collection that specializes in American and gimmicky fine art with additional, select collections of Chinese antiquities and European paintings and works on paper. The Museum serves every bit a teaching resources for Colby College and is a major cultural destination for the residents of Maine and visitors to the land.

History

In the early 1950s, Adeline and Caroline Wing gave paintings by William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth to Colby College. In 1956, Mr. and Mrs. Ellerton Grand. Jetté donated their American Heritage Collection, consisting of 76 works by American folk artists. The next yr, the College received the Helen Warren and Willard Howe Cummings drove of American paintings and watercolors. Two years later, in 1959, the Museum opened its first official galleries in the Bixler Fine art and Music Center. The Jetté Galleries, a major add-on designed by East. Verner Johnson and Assembly, opened in 1973. In that same yr, Norma B. Marin and John Marin Jr. gave 25 works of art by John Marin. In 1984, the Museum celebrated its 25th anniversary with the exhibition, Portrait of New England Places, which covered a span of almost 200 years in American art.

In 1991, the Museum expanded again, increasing the drove storage facilities and adding the Davis Gallery, designed by the Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott. In 1996, the Museum inaugurated the Paul J. Schupf Fly for the Works of Alex Katz to business firm this collection.[1] In 1999, with a atomic number 82 gift from Peter and Paula Lunder, a new wing opened for the exhibition of Colby's growing collection of American art.[2] The Lunder Wing, designed past builder Frederick Fisher, comprises 13 galleries and nine,000 square anxiety of exhibition space for the Colby Museum's growing collection.

In 2000, Richard Serra's awe-inspiring iv-five-6 was installed in the Paul J. Schupf Sculpture Courtroom. This three-function Corten steel sculpture dramatically anchors the courtyard and main entrance to the Museum. In 2002, on the Museum'due south east lawn, Seven Walls, a concrete structure past conceptual creative person Sol LeWitt, was installed with support for its construction provided past the Jere Abbott Acquisitions Fund. In 2006, Paul J. Schupf promised the Museum his drove of more than than 150 works on paper and ane sculpture by Richard Serra. This gift makes the Colby Museum one of the largest repositories of Serra's works on paper.

In 2007, Peter and Paula Lunder, longtime benefactors of the Museum, promised their outstanding collection to Colby College. The souvenir included more than 500 works of art, the majority of them by American artists, every bit well as the 40 exceptional examples of ritual and mortuary art that comprise the Lunder-Colville Chinese Art Collection. In 2009, the College approved the designs for the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, named in recognition of a gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation and the partnership and friendship between Harold Alfond and Peter Lunder. This aforementioned yr, the Museum marked its fiftieth anniversary by presenting the exhibition Fine art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art.

Collections

The Alex Katz Collection

In 1992, the Museum received a souvenir of 414 works by Alex Katz from the artist. The drove at present holds over 800 works by the creative person. Annal material related to the Katz Collection is held by Colby's Special Collections and is available to students and researchers.[i]

The John Marin Drove

The John Marin Drove at the Colby College Museum of Art displays a retrospective drove of paintings, watercolors, drawings, etchings, and photographs. Twenty-iv works spanning the creative person's career from 1888 to 1953 were given to the museum in 1973 past John Marin Jr. and Norma B. Marin. An additional work was given in 1992, and in 1998 Norma Marin made a promised souvenir of 29 etchings by Marin and seven vintage photographs of Marin, including a platinum print past Alfred Stieglitz.[3] The drove ranks second to the National Gallery of Art'southward drove in both media variety and size.

The Terry Winters Collection

The Colby Higher Museum of Art is the sole repository of Terry Winters'due south entire archive of prints.[iv] Numbering more than 200 works, the Winters Print Drove came to the museum in 2002 every bit a fractional gift from the artist and ULAE, with the remaining support drawn from the Museum's Jere Abbott Acquisitions Fund.[v]

The Whistler Collection

More than 300 etchings and lithographs make upwards the Whistler Drove, representing some of the rarest and nigh cute impressions by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The collection besides contains examples of artist'south work in other media, and a collection of more than 150 books, journals, photographs, and archival materials related to Whistler. Inquiry material is available by appointment to students and researchers.[6] [seven]

Skowhegan Lecture Archive

With lectures from artists including Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Jacob Lawrence, and others, The Skowhegan School of Art lecture archive represents the depth and latitude of mail-war American art. These recorded lectures take been compiled as an audio collection consisting of more than 500 talks on more than 700 compact discs. The lectures were originally intended for fine art students and young man artists, and Colby was one of five American Fine art Institutions to receive copies of the lecture archive along with The Archives of American Art, The Art Constitute of Chicago, The Getty Enquiry Institute, and The Museum of Mod Fine art.[8]

Collaborations

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 creative circles. The Colby Higher Museum of Art joins The Smithsonian Institution'south Freer Gallery of Fine art and Arthur Thousand. Sackler Gallery, and the University of Glasgow in the consortium.[9] The museum also collaborates with the nearby Bowdoin College Museum of Fine art.[10]

Nowadays

In July 2013, the Colby Museum inaugurated the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion. Refined and minimalist in design, the drinking glass pavilion completes a circuit with the iv existing wings of the Museum. The pavilion provides a spacious lobby that includes a sculpture gallery and terrace, as well equally new exhibition galleries, classrooms, expanded collection storage, and staff offices. A three-story wall cartoon by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt occupies the drinking glass-enclosed stairwell.[xi] The pavilion's upper floor is defended to the College's art department, providing new studios for photography and fine art foundation classes. Approximately 2,500 images of works in the permanent collection are available on ARTstor.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Alex Katz Collection - Colby College Museum of Art".
  2. ^ "Colby College Museum of Art".
  3. ^ "John Marin Drove - Colby College Museum of Art".
  4. ^ "Terry Winters Prints & Sequences ARTBOOK - D.A.P. 2006 Itemize Colby Higher Museum of Fine art Books Exhibition Catalogues 9780972848442". www.artbook.com.
  5. ^ "Terry Winters Print Collection - Colby Higher Museum of Art".
  6. ^ "The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler - Colby College Museum of Fine art".
  7. ^ "Review: Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, Colby Higher Museum - The Boston Globe".
  8. ^ "Skowhegan Lecture Archive - Colby Higher Museum of Art".
  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-18. Retrieved 2013-09-xxx . CS1 maint: archived copy as championship (link)
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  11. ^ "Wall Cartoon #559 Installation - Colby College Museum of Art".
  12. ^ "Archived re-create". Archived from the original on 2013-12-xix. Retrieved 2013-12-eighteen . CS1 maint: archived copy equally title (link)

Farther reading

  • Corwin, Sharon (2009). Art at Colby: celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Fine art. The Colby College Museum of Art. OCLC 318243499.
  • Marin, John (2003). The John Marin Collection at the Colby College Museum of Art. The Colby Higher Museum of Art. OCLC 53101831.
  • Marsden-Atlass, Lynn D. (1996). 1 hundred works from the 20th century at the Colby College Museum of Art. The Colby Higher Museum of Art. OCLC 38944554.
  • Smith, Earl H. (2009). The Colby College Museum of Art : the kickoff l years, 1959-2009. The Colby College Museum of Art. OCLC 433134704.
  • Handbook of the Colby Higher Fine art Museum. Colby College Printing. 1973. OCLC 4162530.
  • Acquisitions, 1959-1963 : including gifts caused through the Friends of Fine art at Colby, Bixler Art and Music Center, Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Colby College Museum of Art. 1963. OCLC 24598976.

External links

  • The Colby College Museum of Art

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