As winter gradually gives way to spring, we invite you to take part in engaging gallery talks and events that provide new insights into our ongoing exhibitions. Also, please join us on March 30th for the opening of
Urban Impressions: New York City in Prints, 1900-1940. As always, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art celebrates the achievements of artistic practitioners from around the world, and later this month, our programming places a special emphasis on the art of Japan and the contributions of Chuzo Tamotzu, a Japanese-born artist who organized an international exchange of drawings between students in the United States and Japan. As always, the arts provide new perspectives, historic and contemporary, on the world around us. We look forward to seeing you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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CLOSING SOON
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Closing March 19, 2017
Saint Anthony (ca. 251-356), often regarded as the founder of Christian monasticism, was a hermit in the Egyptian desert who, according to his biographer Athanasius of Alexandria, was tormented by supernatural appearances. This exhibition presents renderings of Saint Anthony's visions since the late medieval period.
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CONTINUING
Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo Tamotzu, Children's Drawings, and the Art of Resolution
Closing April 16, 2017
This selection of works by Japanese children and by the Japanese-American artist Chuzo Tamotzu (1887-1975) explores the legacy of an art exchange between elementary school students in Santa Fe and Hiroshima in the early 1950s. The project was conceived by Tamotzu, who was born in Japan and came of age as an artist in the United States.
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Interview with Sarah Freshnock '17
Sarah Freshnock '17 studies art history and visual arts at Bowdoin. She spent the summer of 2015 at the Museum as an Education Intern. In the summer of 2016, she was awarded a Bowdoin Humanities Fellowship to do printmaking research under the direction of assistant professor of art history Dana Byrd. Using research from the fellowship and a subsequent independent study with Professor Byrd, Sarah curated
Urban Impressions: New York City in Prints, 1900-1940, which will open on March 30th, 2017.
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Museum Acquires Monhegan Seascape by George Bellows
The Museum is excited to announce the acquisition of George Bellow's
Green Breaker, an oil on panel that the artist created on Maine's Monhegan Island in 1913. The painting was given by G. Remak Ramsay, an actor who has spent many summers in Maine.
Green Breaker
is the first oil painting by Bellows to enter the Museum's collection and complements well other modernist paintings created on Monhegan by artists such as Rockwell Kent and Leon Kroll. We are deeply grateful for this generous gift.
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Modern Medieval: Materiality and Spirituality in German Expressionist Prints
Modern Medieval: Materiality and Spirituality in German Expressionist Prints opened to the public on February 16th and will be on view until June 4th.
Highlighting the BCMA's diverse permanent collection,
the exhibition
juxtaposes early twentieth-century German prints with late-medieval objects, presenting a unique perspective on western medieval culture's influence on German Expressionism.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this spring! 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
March 1
Gallery Conversation with with professor Marilyn Reizbaum and curator Ellen Tani
4:00 pm
Museum of Art
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March 3
Gallery Conversation with professor Pamela Fletcher and curator Ellen Tani
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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March 4
Family Saturday at the BCMA
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Museum of Art
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March 7
Gallery Conversation with co-director Frank Goodyear and curator Laura Sprague
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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March 28
"Japanese Prints Renewed: The Agents and Tangents of Sosaku Hanga"
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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March 30
Gallery Conversation with Sarah Freshnock '17
5:00 pm
Museum of Art
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March 31
"Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo Tamotzu, Children's Drawings, and the Art of Resolution, A Symposium"
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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