As the fall season arrives, the Museum wishes a warm welcome to those who are new to Bowdoin's community and to those who are returning. This month we kick off a series of lectures, concerts, and gallery presentations celebrating continuing exhibitions and the launch of two new exhibitions of Soviet-era art and photography. As always, the Museum brings together the voices of artists, historians, collectors, and other specialists from a broad range of disciplines who remind us of the many stories art has to tell. We look forward to hearing your perspective!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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OPENING SOON
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars
Opening September 23, 2017
The exhibition explores the remarkably wide-ranging body of propaganda posters created as an artistic consequence of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Marking its centennial, this exhibition delves into a relatively short-lived era of unprecedented experimentation and utopian idealism that produced some of the most iconic images in the history of graphic design.
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CLOSING SOON
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College
Closing September 3, 2017
Presenting historic and contemporary selections from one of the nation's oldest collections of drawings, this exhibition explores the significance and pleasures found in tracing movements of the hand on paper by asking the question "Why Draw?"
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Ruth Fine, former curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, and Marjorie Shelley, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will discuss drawings on paper in their upcoming lecture, "Appreciating Paper: Art's Best Supporting Actor", on August 31st at 4:30 pm in Kresge Auditorium. Juliette Dankens '18 recently interviewed Ruth about her work with drawing
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Stephen Perkinson: "Lessons for Living: The Macabre in Renaissance Art"
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Baltermants Exhibition: Johna Cook '19
This past summer I had the pleasure of interning at the Museum. Among other responsibilities, I was in charge of the organization of the new fall exhibition
Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality. Dmitri Baltermants (1912-1990) was one of the most important Soviet photojournalists at mid-century. His humanizing, often dramatic compositions of World War II and its aftermath affected viewers in the USSR and around the world.
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Peering into The Ivory Mirror
In celebration of
The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe, the fall semester features an exciting spectrum of programs that will offer fresh insight into the rise of the memento mori in early Renaissance Europe. While we recognize the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement, macabre images proliferated during this period. In this exhibition, unsettling depictions of Death personified, of decaying bodies, of young lovers struck down in their prime take center stage.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this fall! There are several exhibitions, featuring art from ancient times to the present, on view for your enjoyment.
For more information, please check our home page, or contact Caroline Baljon, Membership and Programs Coordinator, at (207)-725-3276.
The support of our members helps us to realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always open to students and the general public free of charge. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a community of students and faculty who are actively engaged at the Museum. If you are not already a member, we hope that you will show your support for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art by
joining today
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calendar
September 7
"The Pleasures of Collecting, the Delights of Medieval Ivories, and the Importance of Art to Civilization"
7:00 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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September 8
Second Friday Brunswick!
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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September 10
The Ivory Mirror Book Salon: Shakespeare's Hamlet
2:00 pm
Museum of Art
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September 12
"Modern Day Macabre: Ghosts, Zombies, and the Supernatural in Cinema"
7:00 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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September 13
"Exhibiting Ivory Today"
7:00 pm
Kresge Auditorium
September 16
Family Saturday at the BCMA
10:00 am
Museum of Art
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September 19
"The Devil Lies, And So We Die: A Historian's Perspective on the Memento Mori"
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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September 23
Opening tour and reception for Constructing Revolution
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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September 24
"A Revolution in Images: Poster Art and the Socialist Imagination in Early Soviet Russia"
2:00 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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September 27
"What is the Work of the Dead"
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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September 28
"Why Collect? An Introduction to Collecting Old Master Drawings and Prints"
6:30 pm
Museum of Art
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