#23 Maine Art and Artists
Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Marguerite Zorach, Berenice Abbott, Georgia O’Keeffe, and three generations of the Wyeth family.
The Maine Art Museum Trail include Bates College Museum of Art (Lewiston), Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick), Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville), Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland), Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit), Portland Museum of Art (Portland), and University of Maine Museum of Art (Bangor).
Celebrating Maine’s Role in American Art, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine offers a nationally recognized collection of works from many of America’s greatest artists. With 20,000 square feet of gallery space and over 10,000 works in the collection, there is always something new on view at the Farnsworth. The museum has the nation’s second-largest collection of works by premier 20th-century sculptor Louise Nevelson. Its Wyeth Center features works of Andrew, N.C. and Jamie Wyeth.
The Farnsworth’s library is also housed in its Rockland, ME, campus. Two historic buildings, the Farnsworth Homestead and the Olson House, and Julia’s Gallery for Young Artists complete the museum complex.
The Farnsworth Art Museum’s main building contains six galleries with a combined exhibition space of 5,291 square feet. The Jamien Morehouse Wing, the most recent addition to the main building, houses four additional galleries with an additional total exhibition space of 6,000 square feet.
The Wyeth Center contains two galleries with a total exhibition space of 3,546 square feet.
Rockland, ME 04841
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
University of Maine Museum of Art
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