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Happy holidays! As the year winds down, we write to express our appreciation. We are fortunate to live in a community that values the arts so much. Your involvement and generous support mean a great deal. Please join us on November 29th for a special members event. We will unveil a selection of new acquisitions, will serve refreshments, and will open the museum shop's annual holiday sale. Also, please join us on December 14th when George Lopez will perform an evening of Russian music in conjunction with the exhibition
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars. A new exhibition of twenty and twenty-first century paintings and sculptures from the Museum's permanent collection will also open that evening.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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OPENING SOON
Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900-2000
Opening December 14, 2017
Many artists of the twentieth century purposefully made the familiar look strange in order to challenge conventions. They prompted viewers to assume an analytical and critical role towards artworks and perhaps even towards society at large. This exhibition from the permanent collection of paintings and sculpture offers viewers the opportunity to trace twentieth-century artistic innovations and challenges them to look anew.
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CONTINUING
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars
Closing February 11, 2018
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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New Acquisitions in Upcoming Exhibition:
Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900-2000
Many artists of the twentieth century purposefully made the familiar look strange in order to challenge conventions. They prompted viewers to assume an analytical and critical role towards artworks and perhaps even towards society at large. To be on view from
December 14, 2017 through April 8, 2018,
Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900-2000 offers viewers the opportunity to trace twentieth-century artistic innovations and challenges the viewers to look anew at the world.
The Museum is especially pleased to present a number of new acquisitions in this exhibition, including a painting by one of the masters of American Impressionism, John Joseph Enneking; a painting by Mark Baum, an immigrant artist who was close to members of the New York School and spent ample time in Ogunquit; and a work by the groundbreaking feminist artist, Nancy Spero.
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"From the Library to Thorne, on Chicken Parm Day"
We appreciate the many original captions we received over the last several weeks. Congratulations to Lynne Atkinson '81.
She is the winner of our first-ever "Caption Contest"! While artist John Sloan never visited the Bowdoin campus, his painting
Sunday Afternoon in Union Square features a circular garden that much resembles the garden outside the entrance of the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.
And an honorable mention to Jonathan Walz:
"First woman: 'And then Walter Pach told me he scored Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 for the upcoming Armory Show!'
Second woman: 'ZOMG! No way!'"
Thank you to all who submitted suggestions! We'll hold another contest in the near future.
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Art and Literature from the Collection of Artine Artinian
Artine Artinian (1907-2005) was a 1931 graduate of Bowdoin College and a leading scholar of the nineteenth century French author Guy de Maupassant. During his tenure on the Bard College faculty. Artinian acquired Maupassant's original manuscripts and anthologized the author's numerous short stories in English, all the while developing another significant collection: nineteenth- and twentieth-century French drawings and portraits. For decades, he accumulated several thousand works of art, some of which he himself commissioned.
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Student Members' Holiday Affair
On Friday, December 1, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. the Museum of Art will host the
Student Members' Holiday Affair to usher in the holiday season. Join us at the Museum to kick-off the holidays in style! The event will include festive food, including a hot chocolate bar and holiday cookie decorating buffet, a craft activity where you can make your own snow globe, as well as a winter-themed photo booth, and a holiday a cappella performance. We look forward to seeing you!
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this holiday season! 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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December 1
The Student Members' Holiday Affair
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Museum of Art
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December 5
Looking Anew: Modern Art and Estrangement
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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December 14
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
5:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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Banner image:
Detail of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in a snowstorm.
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