The Permanent Collection

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Laurence Sisson, Naked Pilings, 1953, watercolor. Gift of the artist.
The University of New England’s Art Gallery at the Westbrook College Campus has a diverse and eclectic permanent collection of works of art.

Acquired over the years by Westbrook College and, more recently, by the University, most of the collection has been the result of the generosity of artists, collectors and Westbrook College alumni who have donated these works to the College and University.

Click here to view a selection of the works.

The collection ranges from a pair of primitives, circa 1840 of unknown origin, and two nineteenth century Franklin Stanwood oils to contemporary work by artists Maggie Foskett and Louise Peabody.

The collection also includes works from the mid-twentieth century by such Maine artists as Thomas Crotty, George deLyra, Stephen Etnier, Vincent Hartgen, Dahlov Ipcar, John Muench and Laurence Sisson.

There are bronze plaques by William Zorach, paintings by Alexander Bower and Maurice Utrillo, and works on paper by Hans Hofmann, Paul Klee, Kaethe Kollwitz, Leonardo Lasansky, Leo Meissner, and James McNeill Whistler.

The Art Gallery also has a fine photography collection with works by Berenice Abbott, Todd Webb, Verner Reed, Lotte Jacobi, Lisette Model, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arthur Rothstein, Lewis Hine, and Eugene Atget, among many others, including a number of contemporary Maine fine arts photographers.

    
       

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