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Maine Collects: Treasures from Maine鈥檚 Private Collections

Rockland | Maine | USA

Jun 27, 2015 - Mar 06, 2016

Maine Collects celebrates the remarkable artistic treasures collected over the years by those who live in Maine or have strong ties to the State. For more than two centuries, artists have come to Maine to live and work, often inspired by the state鈥檚 natural beauty. Over the same time, however, and especially from the mid-nineteenth century on, increasing numbers of Maine鈥檚 residents have collected these works, as well as works not just by other artists but also from other cultures. Maine Collects offers an opportunity to see things from private collections throughout the state, otherwise rarely, if ever, on public view. The exhibition promises to feature paintings by Samuel Waldo and William Jewett; N.C. Wyeth, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, John Marin, Will Barnet, Neil Welliver, Alex Katz, Ed Ruscha, and Jamie Wyeth; drawings and watercolors by John Singer Sargent, Carrere and Hastings, Everett Shinn, Rockwell Kent, Andrew Wyeth, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, and Ellsworth Kelly; photographs by Walker Evans, Paul Caponigro, Eliot Porter, Todd Webb, Annie Leibovitz, and Joyce Tenneson; sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Leonard Baskin, Celeste Roberge, Brian White, and Jenny Holzer; prints by Andy Warhol, Alice Neel, Robert Indiana, Donald Sultan, and Alison Saar; as well as outstanding examples of furniture, both American and Chinese, American folk art, and American, French, and Swiss posters.