Ground Breaker
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Marion Osborne Matheson, Class of 1900) was the first African-American woman to graduate from Colby.
Drawn by artist and Colby Visual Resources Curator Maggie Libby ’81, this portrait of Colby’s first female African-American graduate, Marion Osborne (Class of 1900), was displayed at the University of Maine at Farmington Art Gallery from Feb. 7 to March 14. Libby’s exhibition, Across References: Mapping the Paths of Glaciers, Rivers, Women’s Lives, also included portraits of other prominent Colby women, large-scale erasable charcoal drawings of the Sandy and Kennebec rivers, and interactive paintings.
2004-5. Mixed media (charcoal, monoprinted oil paint) on paper. 44 x 30”
