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Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959-1973

Location

Space

Dates

Antique photograph of an Indigenous man in traditional attire with annotations highlighting his cultural regalia.

Selected Works

Joshua Johnson

Painting of a young girl wearing a white dress and posing holding a small pink flower in her left hand.

Marie Laurencin

Hazy painting of a young female figure with beady black eyes. The figure is very pale and white with a blue and gray background.

Dawoud Bey

Coloful photograph of a young boy posing with his bike.

Imogen Cunningham

Black and white photograph of a woman holding her hair up in two separate parts, one clump in each hand. She looks down and to the rigght.

David Clyde Driskell

Colorful oil on linen painting in which the central, skeletal figure raises both arms. In the background, the text SOUL X is legible.

Alexandra Exter

Abstract geometric figure resembling a humanoid, composed of shapes and shaded in black, gray, and blue tones.

Installation Views

  • A vitrine with a framed painting and ephemera in the foreground; additional works of art hung on a wall behind including one work depicting a figure lying in tall grass.
  • A wide gallery view showing various themed sections of the exhibition identified by wall text.
  • Woven baskets and objects displayed on a round white table, with framed portraits and exhibition text in the background.
  • Two vitrines, one displaying a group of ceramic vessels with bright colors, the other displaying a single ceramic vessels in earth tones.
  • Black-and-white collage in foreground and grid of black-and-white photos int he background.
  • Three framed works of art, each depicting a human subject, next to wall text and under directional lighting in a white-walled gallery corner.

Installation view of Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959-1973, Upper Jetté Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2023. Photo: Luc Demers

Installation view of Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959-1973, Upper Jetté Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2023. Photo: Luc Demers

Installation view of Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959-1973, Upper Jetté Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2023. Photo: Luc Demers

Installation view of Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959-1973, Upper Jetté Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2023. Photo: Luc Demers

Installation view of Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959-1973, Upper Jetté Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2023. Photo: Luc Demers

Installation view of Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959-1973, Upper Jetté Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2023. Photo: Luc Demers