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The exhibition provides visitors with an opportunity to consider transformations in American art across generations and traditional stylistic confines. Organized by Bowdoin curator Joachim Homann, Night Vision demonstrates the popularity of the theme with American artists of diverse aesthetic convictions and investigate how they responded to the unique challenges of picturing the night. The works ...

This exhibition presents the rare opportunity to explore this jewel-like collection in depth. A Magnificent Stillness: American Art from a Private Collection showcases the exquisite collection of 15 American paintings amassed by longtime museum Trustee and patron Dr. Walter Goldfarb and his late wife, Marcia. What unites these diverse works is their meticulous craftsmanship, precise detailing, and...

The exhibition features works by Japanese-born artist Niho Kozuru, whose brightly tinted constructions are created from translucent cast rubber. Many of Kozuru’s forms are inspired by New England turned-wood architectural elements such as finials and balusters as well as industrial machine parts. Color and energy radiate from within the Zillman Gallery this summer in Inter/Dimension. Also on displ...

The exhibition features an array of new sculptures and two-dimensional works by one of Maine’s most innovative contemporary artists. Hepler explores forms in conflict or embrace through a series of heavily patterned large-scale woodcuts and soft sculptures inspired by collages made from National Geographic magazines. The artist also highlights the clarity and simplicity of primary forms in large a...

This exhibition focuses on photographs of rather than art by Hartley. The Painter of Maine begins with photographs of Hartley as a young man, including images taken during his travels in Europe and the U.S., and ends with informal images in Corea, Maine from the early 1940s at the end of his life. For most of this group, the photographer is unknown. The exhibition also includes a fine and pensive ...

An exhibition of contemporary photography featuring new and recent works by Jay Gould, of Baltimore, Maryland, Gary Green, of Waterville, Maine, David Maisel, of Marin, California and Shoshannah White, of Portland, Maine. Viewing elements of the Maine landscape from different levels of scale – from great distance to close-up, each artist explores a different aspect of the boundaries and interrelat...

This exhibition includes work in most media and in a wide variety of themes and styles, many of which have not been on view in the museum previously. Maine Collected features selected works by living artists connected to Maine from the Bates Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The collection has significant strengths in Maine art. Closed Sunday

The exhibition Andy and Kosti explores the friendship between Maine artists Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Kosti Ruohomma (1913-1961). Both found Maine an inexhaustible subject in which to practice their respective arts, and in particular were fascinated by the relationship between people and their environment, Andy in particular with the Olson House and siblings Alvaro and Christina Olson; and Kost...

The art of the Wyeths Exhibition – N.C., Andrew and Jamie – is a direct result of their familiarity with and fascination for life along midcoast Maine, reaching back to N.C.’s decision to bring his family to the area in 1920. The Wyeths’ interests have included the coast’s dramatic shoreline and islands, including Monhegan, the lives of fishermen and farmers, and the boats, houses, barns, lighthou...

Featuring numerous recent acquisitions, this exhibition presents selections from the Colby Museum’s holdings of contemporary works on paper. Many of the artists represented are new to the collection and have entered it through their accomplishments in printmaking. Sunday: Noon–5 p.m. Closed Mondays