“La Mère Gérard,” by James McNeill Whistler, c. 1858–59, oil on millboard, 12 x 5 in. Colby College Museum of Art. The Lunder Collection, 2013.295

“The Garden,” by James McNeill Whistler, 1879–80, etching and drypoint in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper; third state (of fifteen), 123/8 x 9½ in. Colby College Museum of Art. The Lunder Collection, 2013.456

“Nocturne,” by James McNeill Whistler, 1879–80, etching and drypoint in brown ink on ivory laid paper, 83/16 x 11¾ in. Colby College Museum of Art. The Lunder Collection, 2013.387

“Woman in Green with Blue and White Bowl,” by John White Alexander, c. 1898, oil on panel, 97/16 x 127/8 in. Colby College Museum of Art. The Lunder Collection, 2013.004

A view of “Whistler and the World” at Colby College, drawn from the more than 300 works by Whistler in Colby’s Lunder Collection. Courtesy photo.