Enjoy a break from the summer heat at the Museum. There is much to see when you visit this month, including
Winslow Homer and the Camera,
an exhibition that the
Boston Globe recently praised for shedding new light on the artist's practice: "It presents something ... more interesting even than innovation. Again and again, we see Homer as experimentalist." Likewise,
Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/Space highlights an important series of paintings and drawings from the 1960s and 1970s by one of the most original artists of his generation. Student interns lead tours of the different exhibitions each day at 1:30 pm. In addition, be sure to mark your calendar for gallery talks by visiting scholars throughout the month.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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This exhibition features a selection of art works created in Maine during the first half of the twentieth century. Winslow Homer was an important influence for many artists who worked in Maine at this time, including George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Rockwell Kent, Andrew Wyeth, and Marguerite Zorach, all of whom are represented in this presentation.
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Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
This exhibition explores the question of Homer's relationship with the medium of photography and its impact on his artistic practice. As one attuned to appearances and how to represent them, Homer understood that photography, as a new visual technology, had much to reveal. This exhibition adds an important new dimension to our appreciation of this pioneering American painter, demonstrating his recognition that photography did not undermine, but instead complemented his larger artistic interests.
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Behind-the-Scenes:
Winslow Homer and the Camera
Curious about the ideas that go into an exhibition like
Winslow Homer and the Camera? Check out this interview with Frank Goodyear, the co-director of the Museum and co-curator of the
Homer exhibition, as he discusses what inspired the show, the challenges he faced, his favorite pieces, and what's next for the exhibition.
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Student Choice: Allegra Bersani '20
When giving a tour, the painting that I am always most excited to share is Winslow Homer's
Evening on the Beach. Painted between 1871 and 1878,
Evening on the Beach
is a testament to Homer's love for travel. Homer voyaged not only domestically, particularly during the Civil War, where as a correspondent for a newspaper he ventured to Virginia on several occasions, but also internationally, to the Caribbean and Europe. This work, painted not long after a ten month stay in France in 1876, reflects the influence of those trips. While Homer did not seem to be taken by contemporary French art like some of his peers who enrolled in art schools there, he did seem to have taken from them the desire to incorporate into their works outdoor light as well as flat and simple forms.
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A Handheld History on Your Handheld Device
On July 26, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art opened
A Handheld History: Five Centuries of Medals from the Molinari Collection at Bowdoin College. Curated by students Amber Orosco '19, Stephen Pastoriza '19, and Benjamin Wu '18, the show is inspired by the remarkable generosity and vision of Cesare Molinari d'Incisa and his wife, Amanda Marchesa Molinari. The installation features nearly seventy medals, representing selected highlights from the almost 1500 medals and plaquettes donated by the Marchesa in honor of her husband to the Museum over fifty years ago. These works present an overview of the aesthetic, historical, and political significance of medallic art from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll stop by the Museum this summer! 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
August 2
Gallery Conversation: Kaveh Motjabai
7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 4
Family Saturday
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Museum of Art
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August 7
Gallery Conversation:
Linda Docherty
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 9
Lecture with Charles Duncan
7:00 pm
Beam Classroom, VAC
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August 10
Family Art Night
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 14
Gallery Conversation:
Frank Goodyear
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 23
Gallery Conversation:
Susan Danly
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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Banner image:
Detail from The Beach,
1889, oil on canvas by Charles Woodbury. The painting is included in the exhibition Made in Maine.
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