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The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, United States, is an art museum that specializes in American art. Its permanent collection includes works by such artists as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Eastman Johnson, Fitz Henry Lane, Frank Benson, Childe Hassam, Will Barnet, and Maurice Prendergast, as well as a significant ...
The Farnsworth Homestead is a historic house museum at 21 Elm Street in Rockland, Maine.Built in 1854 by William A. Farnsworth, it is an excellent late example of Greek Revival architecture, and was the home of Lucy Farnsworth, the major benefactor of the Farnsworth Art Museum, which owns the house and operates it as a museum property.
In Rockland, the Farnsworth Museum is home to 15,000 works that highlight artists who’ve lived and worked in Maine, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art has a small but strong collection.
The Olson House remains under the ownership of the Farnsworth Art Museum, which maintains it as a facility that is open for public visitation. Farnsworth executive director Christopher Brownawell noted, "This nondescript saltwater farmhouse and its connecting structure has become one of the most recognized images in American art." [12]
2006 Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME 2006 "Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print: The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976–2006," Bates College Museum, Lewiston, ME 1999 "Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection," Portland Museum of Art, ME
Located in downtown Rockland, Maine, across from the Farnsworth Art Museum and adjacent to the Strand Theatre, the new CMCA has three exhibition galleries, a gift shop, a lecture hall, an ArtLab classroom, and an open public courtyard.
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Study for "The Thinker", Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Reviewing the memorial exhibition of Eakins's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1917, art critic Henry McBride singled out The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton as "the most restrained, most classical of all the Eakins canvases."