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What does it takes to install an art exhibition at Colby's museum?

Abigail Pritchard, Portland Press Herald, June 4, 2026

Right now, almost 100 drawings and sketches from one of Maine’s most popular living artists are hanging on coral pink walls in the Colby College Museum of Art.

Many drawings are recent, drawn just last year, but the oldest is more than 80 years old.

How did 95 drawings, decades apart in age and owned by different collectors, all end up in the same room in Waterville? And who decided the walls should be pink?