Colby College Museum of Art
I'm just back from a wonderful trip up to Maine to paint and attend my opening for Isalos Fine Art's current show Inside Edward Hopper's World: Paintings by Philip Koch (through Sept. 2 in Stonington, ME). One of the other highlights of the trip was my chance to visit the newly expanded Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville. It received a big new gift of the Lunder Collection is now the largest art museum in Maine. It's worth a trip to see. Diana Tuite, who has just joined the Colby Museum as its new Katz Curator was kind enough to take time out of her schedule (she was right in the middle of moving to new home in Waterville) to come meet me and chat for awhile. Diana was one of the people who organized the important exhibition Edward Hopper's Maine at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the most extensive look ever taken at Hopper's long involvement with Maine as a subject for his work. Here's a few of my favorites from the Colby M