TITLE: Selections from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art YEAR: 2011 ARTISTS: Various Artists AUTHORS: William Low PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME DETAILS: Soft cover, 8 pages, [6 x 8 in dimensions], [24 color images] EXHIBITION: Selections from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art DATES: January 14- March 25 2011...

Liven up your correspondence with this set of 6 note cards with gorgeous images of the work of Ashley Bryan (1923-2022) that were featured in the Museum of Art's exhibition Let's Celebrate Ashley Bryan! and are in the permanent collection. African American artist Ashley Bryan is one of Maine’s cultural treasures....

by Kerrin McCadden This collection is about living in the rural North. Inside that, it is about isolation and love and loneliness. Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes is preoccupied with reckoning, with grief and happiness, with divorce and what constitutes family. At its core are people trying to cross the lines...

The “blk alter” of Avery R. Young’s poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, neckbone: visual verses. Young’s years of supernatural fieldwork within the black experience and the gospel of his transitions between poetry, art and music, become the stitch, paint brush, metaphor, and narrative of arresting...

YEAR: 2003 ARTISTS: Manuel Lopez Olivia AUTHORS: Lillian Guerra and Bill Low DESIGNER: Mahan Graphics, Bath, ME PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME DETAILS: Softcover, 17 pages, [8 ½ x 11 in dimensions], [12 color images] EXHIBITION: Manuel Lopez Olivia Cuba and The Theatre of Desire DATES: August 22-...

YEAR: 1970 ARTISTS: Marsden Hartley AUTHORS: William J Mitchell EDITOR: William J Mitchell PUBLISHER: Bates College Art Department DETAILS: Softcover, 67 pages, 81/4x11 Dimensions), (99 Black & White Drawings)

YEAR: 2015 ARTISTS: Various Artists: Jay Gould, Gary Green, David Maisel and Shoshannah White AUTHORS: William Low, poem by Stuart Kestenbaum DESIGNER: Victoria Blaine Wallace PUBLISHER: Penmor Lithographers, Lewiston, ME DETAILS: Softcover, 20 pages, [6 ½ x 10 in dimensions], [15 non color/ color images] EXHIBITION: Points of View New and...

Fully illustrated catalogue of the exhibition "Stages for Being". Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925 – 1972) was a Kentucky based photographer who created enigmatic images that would secure his place in the history of the medium by consciously challenging the concept of the camera as a mere recorder of the world. Meatyard used...

Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle…“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”—Alice MunroPulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling and award winning debut, Amy and Isabelle—adapted for television by Oprah Winfrey— evokes a teenager's alienation...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes Elizabeth Strout’s never-before-published essay about the origins of The Burgess BoysNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Good HousekeepingElizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of...

“To be clear, Franny Choi’s poetry has the extraordinary ability to solder with tender focus one moment, then rage like electrical fire in the next. In Death by Sex Machine, where fem-surrogate cyborgs of film and manga are impetus for understanding personal suppression of language, Choi gives us poems that...

YEAR: 2004 ARTISTS: Zhou Hai, Jiang Jing, Zhou Min, Luo Yongjin, Lu Yuanmin, Liu Xiaodi, Zhang Xinmin AUTHORS: Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Mark H.C. Bessire, John Yu Zou, Gu Zheng, EDITOR: Mark H.C. Bessire DESIGNER: Nathaniel Kuritz PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME Details: Softcover, 47 pages, [9 x 12...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge comes a “superb” (O: The Oprah Magazine) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice.” (The Atlantic Monthly) In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler...

by Mary Morton Cowan Cyrus Field had a big dream to connect North America and the United Kingdom with a telegraph line, which would enable instant communication. In the mid-1800s, no one knew if it was possible. That didn't dissuade Cyrus, who set out to learn about undersea cables and built a network...

A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than anything. But when a teenager accuses Maeve―Maeve!―of...

YEAR: 2003 ARTISTS: Andrew and Jamie Wyeth AUTHORS: George Contis PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art Lewiston, Maine DETAILS: Softcover, foldout, [8 x 9 ¾ in dimensions], [6 color images] EXHIBITION: Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth DATES: June 10 – October 2, 2011