WATERVILLE — A museum-wide exhibit, Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, will be on view July 11 to Feb. 21, to mark the founding of the museum in 1959, a half century ago. A 376-page book of the same title, featuring 202 color illustrations, will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Art at Colby will present works acquired early in the museum's history, such as Winslow Homer's 1870 Adirondack landscape The Trapper, William Merritt Chase's Tompkins Park, Brooklyn, and key works from the American Heritage Collection of folk art. It also will offer the most comprehensive overview to date of works from the Lunder Collection, promised to the Colby College Museum of Art by Peter and Paula Lunder in 2007.

The Colby College Museum of Art, 4000 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, is one of the largest museums in Maine. It is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday admission is free and the museum is accessible to people with disabilities. For more info, visit www.colby.edu/museum.