That, of course, was never really the case, and great work was being made across a spectrum of practice while the movement hogged the limelight. But that simple narrative dominated American art history orthodoxy for decades, and to a degree, still does. Born in New York, he decamped for art school at Ohio State in and, after serving three years in the army during the war, returned in to finish his MFA. At the time, New York was on the cusp of becoming New York , postwar angst coalescing with artists like Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock to spawn a visual language beyond representation, so they said, of raw emotion.
He had his first exhibition in New York in , and then moved there post-Mickey for good in What it neglects to mention at all is what he was doing for those 13 years, which was painting furiously and with intent, tackling big narratives about American identity that his suddenly famous New York peers had abruptly abandoned. The postwar years were a time of soul-searching, with residual trauma forcing hard questions about living in an increasingly fractured world.
The Abstract Expressionist answer was, simply, to abandon that world entirely on a quest for emotional purity, the world of images not enough to express the tumult within.
For Lichtenstein, the formal language of Modernism was a way to dismantle those notions, to wobble the pillars on which American exceptionalism was built. Greene has also made an effort to hire diverse faculty and administrators, something students of color said helps tremendously.
The dean of the college is an African-American woman, and the general counsel is an Asian-American man. Although many people on campus are learning the story of the Osbornes for the first time, it has always been known in one quiet corner of Colby. The school archivists, who work among shelves of crinkly yearbooks, yellowing newspaper articles, and black-and-white class photographs, have known of Janitor Sam for a long time.
This semester students are taking a class on Colby history in which they examine the materials about the Osbornes. But among the records is nothing written by Osborne himself, leaving students to interpret him through the lens of the white students and professors. The students are also trying to locate his living descendants. In the records, people speak highly of Osborne, but in a paternalistic or racially coded way, a way that today would be considered offensive.
Some materials are hard to interpret. For example, a photo of the class of has Osborne at the center, suggesting either that he was placed there as an honor, or that the school wanted to seem generous by doing so. The students are learning to read the archival records with an understanding of the time in which Osborne lived.
They have come to understand the complex way in which the white students regarded Osborne — beloved but not an equal. But she sees an opportunity. Laura Krantz can be reached at laura.
Follow her on Twitter laurakrantz. Colby College, known for its economics and environmental science programs, now wants to become a leader in artificial intelligence education. The small Maine college this week announced plans to launch the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which will teach students to incorporate the new technology into their liberal arts education.
Brown has also become involved in city politics. One recent graduate, she said, liked that work so much he became a Waterville firefighter. Brian MacQuarrie can be reached at brian. Carl D. Walsh for The Boston Globe. A Colby College student looks out the window of his dorm room in the Lockwood Hotel, one of the revitalization projects the college has contributed to the Waterville, Maine downtown. Dorm use is only temporary as the plan is for the Lockwood to open as a hotel.
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