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Rockwell Refracted: Colorful Selections from the Permanent Collection

From May 23, 2025 to September 8, 2025

Location: Spotlight Gallery (Floor 1M)

Color makes the world come to life! The way we perceive color can vary across cultures and even from person to person. Artists throughout time have used color to express meaning, elicit emotions, and bring joy to viewers. This summer, The Rockwell Museum highlights the most colorful works in their collection to explore how artists manipulate light, shades, and tints that leap off the canvas to communicate beyond vision to excite our imaginations. 

Michael (Corinne) West, Untitled, c. 1970, Oil and enamel on paper, 23 ¾ x 18 ¾ in. Museum purchase with funds from the Silver Dollar Society. 2019.9.

Tiffany Alfonseca, La vida, quien entiende estas cosas? (Life, who understands these things?), 2023. Acrylic paint, rhinestones, and colored pencils on stretched canvas, 36 x 48 in. Museum Purchase. 2024.2.

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2025 exhibitions are made possible by Mary Spurrier