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  • Alex Katz: Quick Things Passing

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    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.
  • Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond

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    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.
  • Global Crossings: Selections from the Lunder Collection

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    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.
  • Some American Stories

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

Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2026

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  • Alex Katz | Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey

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    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.
  • By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth

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

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    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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  • Art Break: The Twenty-Four Solar Terms: Vernal Equinox by Xiaoyang Cao

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    A vertical, monochromatic ink painting in a traditional Chinese style depicts a majestic, misty mountain landscape. Jagged peaks and cliffs emerge from swirling, atmospheric fog, with dark, heavily textured areas suggesting dense forests of pine trees clinging to the slopes, particularly in the lower half and center. The upper portion of the painting is dominated by dark rock forms dissolving into the white mist. The technique uses varying degrees of ink wash, ranging from pale gray to deep black, to create a strong sense of depth, light, and movement of the clouds.
  • Lunder Institute @ Yale Center for British Art

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    A four-story rectangular building featuring a modular grid of matte pewter-finished stainless steel panels and reflective glass windows. The concrete frame is exposed at the ground level to create an open pedestrian colonnade at a city street corner.
  • Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2026 Opening Reception

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  • Lunder Institute @ Yale Center for British Art

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    A four-story rectangular building featuring a modular grid of matte pewter-finished stainless steel panels and reflective glass windows. The concrete frame is exposed at the ground level to create an open pedestrian colonnade at a city street corner.
  • Theories and Methods of Art History: Research Symposium and Reception

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    This image shows a painting of two identical-looking men sitting in yellow folding chairs, positioned in front of two large windows. The men are mirror images of each other, both wearing brownish-red short-sleeved shirts and light-colored trousers. They sit with their legs crossed and one arm resting on the back of their chair. The background is a simple, muted brown wall with two large, rectangular windows that look out onto a pale, indistinct space. The painting has a loose, expressive style with visible brushstrokes and a limited color palette of earth tones, yellow, and white.
  • Lunder Institute @ Tate Britain

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    A grand Neoclassical facade featuring a deep portico with eight Corinthian columns supporting a triangular pediment. A central dome is topped with a statue of Britannia, and a wide flight of stone stairs leads to the entrance. Two vertical pink banners hang between the columns.
  • Lunder Institute @ Royal Academy of Arts 

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    A symmetrical, three-story Neo-Palladian stone building with a rusticated ground floor supporting a piano nobile with Corinthian pilasters and arched niches containing figurative sculptures. A central flagpole with a British flag tops the balustraded roofline, overlooking a paved courtyard.
  • Summer Luncheon

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    An event graphic with a turquoise background and a large yellow graphic of kelp in the center. Bold, black sans-serif text reads: "Colby College Museum of Art," with a line underneath; "Summer Luncheon," with two lines underneath; and "July 11, 2026," with a line underneath.