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Colby College Sesquicentennial Project: Art In Maine; Or, Colony, Province And State - The Role Of Maine In American Art, Colby College

Archives of Maine Art

A statement of purpose.

The State of Maine offers the locale for a penetrating study of the visual arts as they relate to a people and a geographical setting. This study can reach fruition in three distinct but related ways: as an exhibition of the works of art themselves; in the establishment of a permanent repository for photographs, factual data and source material; and as a book combining good reproductions and an authoritative text. Each of these will be discussed separately later in this report.

As a region, Maine is perhaps uniquely qualified to reveal the scope of American art …