Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, Colby College Museum of Art
A new gallery designed by Frederick Fisher at Colby College in Waterville, Maine adds onto existing spaces for displaying art, including a 1999 wing designed by the architect himself.
For a small, private educational institution, Colby College has assembled a formidable cache of American art, including work by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, John Marin, and Alex Katz, among others. Because of generous donations, Colby's Museum of Art, established in 1959, has expanded several times. The most recent addition, the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, a three-story, 26,000 square-foot-building, opened in July. Since much of the architecture at the current campus is predominantly red-brick, neo-Georgian, and dates to the 1930s, its choice of Frederick Fisher and Partners as the architect, seems unusual. The West-Coast -based firm's principal is identified with the so-called 'L.A. School' of architects that made its reputation in the 1970s with an ad-hoc, roughly casual, modern design.
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