ROCKLAND — The Farnsworth Art Museum will open an exhibition of works from some of the most important private collections in Maine on Saturday, June 27.

The show, titled “Maine Collects,” will be on display in the museum’s Morehouse wing through March 6, 2016. 

“Maine Collects” celebrates the artistic treasures collected over the years by those who live in Maine or have strong ties to the state. The items are rarely, if ever, on public display.

The exhibition will include:

* 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.

* And examples of furniture, both American and Chinese, American folk art, and American, French and Swiss posters.

The exhibition’s Lead Sponsor is Camden National Bank.

FMI:  www.farnsworthmuseum.org.

© Chuck Close, courtesy Pace Gallery

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