WATERVILLE, ME.- The occasion of the Maine Folk Art Trail—a statewide institutional collaboration exploring the treasure troves of traditional American folk art in Maine—provides an opportunity for the Colby College Museum of Art to present more than 50 objects from its remarkable collection of works done in the American vernacular tradition. The exhibition presents works in a variety of media that touch on the full range of folk subjects, including landscape, seascape, ship paintings and still life. An entire gallery of the exhibition will be devoted to the display of primitive portraits, many of which are drawn from the American Heritage Collection, given to Colby College by Edith and Ellerton M. Jetté.

Founded in 1959, the Colby College Museum of Art has an outstanding permanent collection of 18th-, 19th-, 20th, and 21st-century American art. The 13 galleries of the museum’s Lunder Wing exhibit works that trace the development of American art from the mid-18th century into the early 20th century.

The museum also showcases the work of significant 20th-century American artists, many of whom lived or worked in Maine. These include John Marin, Fairfield Porter, George Bellows and Alex Katz, who has donated over 700 magnificent works to the museum.