Happy New Year! We hope that the holiday season has been a time of joyful celebration with family and friends. As 2018 arrives, we look forward to an exciting slate of exhibitions and programs, guaranteed to provide a delightful and stimulating retreat from winter weather! Please join us on January 25th for a reception in honor of Professor Janet Catherine Berlo and the Museum's exhibition,
Art from the Northern Plains, as we kick off another great year at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. And thanks, as always, to you, our friends and members, for all you do to make the BCMA such a lively place to celebrate and engage with the arts!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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OPENING SOON
Where the Artist's Hand Meets the Author's Pen: Drawings from the Artine Artinian Collection
Artine Artinian, Class of 1931, a renowned scholar of nineteenth-century French literature, donated to Bowdoin a vast collection of drawings, including portraits, caricatures, and original designs for book illustrations. Highlights of these gifts provide an introduction to the visual culture of France during the Belle Époque.
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Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging 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. This exhibition includes twenty-four of Baltermants's most famous photographs and complements the concurrent exhibition,
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars.
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Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art
How do we know what we cannot see? On March 1, the Museum will open Second Sight: the Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, which features approximately 35 works by a diverse range of artists who explore the experiential, psychological, and metaphorical implications of blindness and invisibility in recent American art. Artists such as Terry Adkins, William Anastasi, Sophie Calle, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joseph Grigely, Ann Hamilton, Glenn Ligon, Carmen Papalia, and Lorna Simpson employ unconventional modes of representation that defer or obscure an easy reading in order to suggest sight, representation, and ability as social concepts.
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Winslow Homer's wood engravings create a window into American life during the late nineteenth century. Homer depicts the challenges of winter in this wood engraving, A Winter Morning - Shoveling Out, 1871.
We challenge our readers to suggest playful captions for this print, imagining what these people might be saying or shedding light on the scene itself. Please submit your ideas to [email protected]
by January 17. The
Museum
staff will select a caption to appear in the February E-Bulletin. The winner will receive a 20% discount on their next purchase in the
Museum
shop!
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Lecture by Janet Berlo and Opening Reception for Spring Semester
Please join us on January 25 at the Museum's first public lecture of the spring semester. Janet Catherine Berlo, Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, will present "Narrative and Abstraction in Plains Indian Art, 1850 to the Present," in conjunction with the exhibition
Art from the Northern Plains. After her lecture at 4:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, we will hold a reception at the Museum.
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Works on Paper of the Month
This group of four drawings, recently purchased at auction, is characteristic of Louis Eilshemius's late work. Disgruntled with the art world, which, he believed, unfairly ignored him, and ailing from a traffic accident in 1932, Eilshemius stopped painting and focused his energy on inflammatory letters to the editors of major news outlets. He routinely signed his missives with self-aggrandizing titles such as "Mightiest Mind of Mankind," "Minister of Art to Be," or "Neglected Potentate."
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll stop by the Museum in 2018! 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
January 25
Narrative and Abstraction in Plains Indian Art: 1850 to the Present
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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January 25
Winter Open House
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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