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A detail of an etching depicting tree branches

Summer is in full swing here at the Museum of Art. We invite you to visit East-Northeast: Charting Moments in Maine, four new exhibitions featuring the work of Rudy Burckhardt, Ann Craven, John McKee, and Gordon Parks. Each of these projects centers artworks created in Maine over the past eighty years that have been little seen in the past. Also, be sure to join us on August 7th at 7 pm for a special outdoor screening of a series of films by Rudy Burckhardt, which will be followed by discussion and Q&A with filmmaker Jacob Burckhardt and artist Tom Burckhardt. In this issue, we celebrate the recent donation of eighteen photographs by Mark Power ‘59 and a series of recent loans from the BCMA to major national exhibitions.

See you at the Museum!

Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear III

Co-Directors, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

exhibitions

Closing Soon

Hello, Stranger: Artist as Subject in Photographic Portraits since 1900

This exhibition features thirty-five photographs—self-portraits or portraits of other artists—which reflect radically new propositions for what a portrait might be.

Opening Soon

Front Lines: Women Etchers at the Fore, 1880 to Today

This exhibition brings together the etchings of an international array of women who have continued to expand the scope of etching and their own creative practices.

spotlight

A black and white photo of a barred window

Recent Donation of Mark L. Power ’59 Photographs

Earlier this summer, Virginia Power presented the Museum of Art with a generous gift of 18 photographs by her late husband Mark L. Power ’59 (1937–2020). These are the first photographs by Power to enter the Museum’s collection.

An art museum displays paintings of moons

Ann Craven in Rotation

As Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory) moves into its final weeks, enjoy these two video conversations with curators Jay Sanders, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Artists Space, and Adam Weinberg, Director Emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who participated in the project through their installations of Craven’s work. A recording of Ann Craven’s recent public interview with Anne Collins Goodyear will soon be shared through the Museum’s website. The exhibition will travel to the New York Studio School, where it will be exhibited from September 12–November 2, 2025.

news

A ninteenth century portrait painting of an African American man in formal attire

On the Road: Experience BCMA Collections at Other Museums

Portrait of Rosa Bonheur and Portrait of a Gentleman from the Museum's permanent collection travel to Wrightwood 659 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Object of the Month

Isa Cruz ’27, co-curator of Hello, Stranger: Artist as Subject in Photographic Portraits since 1900, writes about Self-Portrait as My Uncle Brian Gregory by Gillian Wearing.

calendar

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Rudy Burckhardt’s Maine Films: A Screening and Discussion

7-9 p.m. | Main Quad near Visual Arts Center

Friday, August 8, 2025

2nd Friday Art Walk at the Museum of Art

4-7 p.m. | Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Museum Hours

Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 pm | Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. | Sunday: 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Closed on Mondays and national holidays.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is open to the public free of charge. The Museum is wheelchair accessible through the Pavilion entrance.

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Banner: Rodolphe Bresdin, Branches (detail), ca. 1880, etching on dark cream wove paper. Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, Maine. Bequest of David P. Becker, Class of 1970, 2011.69.91