Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art

With more than 170 artworks and commissioned texts including original poems by 98 writers and artists--such as Barbara Haskell Bill Berkson Carol Troyen Michael Leja Rachael Ziady DeLue Geoffrey Batchen Sanford Schwartz Anne M. Wagner Ron Padgett Irving Sandler and Lydia Yee--Art at Colby highlights artworks that represent the full scope of the museums superb holdings. The works span the entire history of American art (with a particularly fine selection of painting from New York since 1960) and also include examples of European and Asian works. Texts by a range of writers--scholars curators critics and artists--are paired with gorgeous reproductions of pieces from the collection: James Cuno on Henri Fantin-Latour for instance Rackstraw Downes on John Marin Alex Katz on Winslow Homer and Richard Hell on Joe Brainard.