April is an exciting month at the Museum. In addition to programs with Bowdoin faculty members Birgit Tautz (German), Mary Hart (Visual Arts), and Tricia Welsh (Cinema Studies), the Museum also welcomes three scholars from beyond Maine who will speak in conjunction with exhibitions now on view. Please join us on April 4th when Dartmouth professor Ada Cohen visits to talk about ancient Assyrian art, on April 13th when Toledo Museum of Art curator Robin Reisenfeld discusses German avant-garde artists' responses to World War I, and on April 27th when MFA Boston curator Elliot Bostwick Davis reflects on the place of American art in an encyclopedic museum. These programs promise to provide interesting new perspectives on the Museum's current exhibitions. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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CLOSING SOON
Art & Resolution, 1900 to Today
Closing April 16, 2017
The dual meaning of "resolution," as both coming-into-view and as a means of overcoming conflict, defines artistic responses to the historic transformations of the global twentieth century. Works selected for the exhibition visualize resolution and its conceptual underpinnings, and seek to act as agents of resolution through visual culture. Included is a group of Sosaku-hanga creative prints curated for
Art & Resolution by students from Art History 3180: "Japanese Print Culture."
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RECENTLY OPENED
Urban Impressions: New York City in Prints, 1900-1940
Closing July 9, 2017
Early twentieth-century New York City --- with its increasingly diverse populace, expanding skyline, and changed public mores --- made modern life in the metropolis a place of interest for artists working in a variety of media. The group of print artists featured in this exhibition resisted the growing popularity of abstraction, choosing instead to commit themselves to representing the human figure in the urban environment. Made with etching needles, burnishers, plate, and stone and featuring people at work, at play, and on the move, the resulting prints offer us an intriguing glimpse of a rapidly changing America.
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Revealing a more complicated/richer/diverse American Story: Fifteen Drawings gifted by halley harrisburg '90 and Michael Rosenfeld
Which stories are we able to tell with works in our collection? What are the "blind spots" in our recount of the history of art? And, by extension, what political, social, economic, and cultural realities that shaped artistic production of the past do we fail to acknowledge? These questions recently came up in conversations with halley k harrisburg '90 and her husband Michael Rosenfeld, prompted by preparations for the upcoming exhibition of Bowdoin's distinguished collection of drawings.
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors will be the most comprehensive survey of this unique resource to date, and will be on view May 3rd through September 3rd, 2017.
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Collectors' Collaborative Gathers in NYC
Members of the Museum's Collectors' Collaborative met at the Independent Art Fair in New York City on March 3rd. Now in its tenth year, this group of Bowdoin alumni gathers twice annually to attend exhibitions and other art-related events. Through their contributions, they also support the purchase of a contemporary artwork for the Museum. Acquisitions in recent years include works by artists such as Alyson Schotz, Leslie Hewitt, Malick Sidibe, and Mel Bochner.
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Student Pick
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Will Schweller
'17
The Museum contains too many incredible works spanning enumerable schools and media to truly have a favorite piece. That being said, I really enjoy Abraham Bloemaert's
Studies of Running Figures. The drawing likely dates from 1590-1650, and was given to the College by James Bowdoin III upon his death in 1811. It shows several studies of running figures and two red chalk studies of muscled arms. Bloemaert no doubt used this drawing to help hone his skills.
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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
April 4
"From Nimrud to (New) England: Assyrian Art Over Time"
4:30 pm
Kresge
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April 6
"Traveling Artists/ Circulating Images- Tracing 18th Century Networks"
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 8
Family Saturday at the BCMA
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Museum of Art
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April 11
Gallery Conversation with artist Mary Hart and Sarah Freshnock '17
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 13
"The Presence of Spirituality in German Avant-Garde Artistic Responses to WWI"
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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April 20
Music at the Museum
5:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 25
Film and discussion: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
7:00 pm
Smith Auditorium
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April 27
"Reimagining 'American' Art: The MFA, Boston and Museums of the Future"
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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