Happy New Year! We hope that you have had a good holiday break. While Bowdoin classes don't begin again until January 21, the Museum of Art will be open beginning on January 2. Be sure to see
Rufus Porter's Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860, a ground-breaking exhibition about an artist, inventor, and publisher whom
The Art Newspaper recently described as an "American polymath" who was "in many respects, decades-if not centuries-ahead of his time." Also new at the Museum,
Maine's Lithographic Landscapes: Town & City Views, 1830-1870 is an exhibition not to be missed. Curated by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. H'08, Maine State Historian, it features some of the earliest printed views of Maine. Both exhibitions are part of the Museum's year-long celebration of the bicentennial of Maine statehood in 2020.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear III
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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CONTINUING
Rufus Porter's Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860
This exhibition celebrates the artist and inventor Rufus Porter (1792-1884), an imaginative polymath and entrepreneur curious about art, science, and communication technologies.
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This exhibition features outstanding nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures from the Museum's permanent collection.
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A Conversation with Andrew Walker '87
Museum of Art Student Curatorial Assistant Brooke Wrubel '21 spoke with Andrew Walker '87, director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, about his experience at Bowdoin and his career in the museum field.
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Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego, associate professor of romance languages and literatures, and Sean P. Burrus, Mellon post-doctoral curatorial fellow, discuss
Dos Pares de Piernas (Two Pairs of Legs) by Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
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The Museum of Art periodically lends works of art from its collection to special exhibitions at other museums and galleries. More than a dozen loans have traveled in the United States and Europe in the past year.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this winter!
There are several exhibitions, featuring art from ancient times to the present, on view for your enjoyment.
The support of our members helps realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always open to students and the general public. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a community of students and faculty, who are actively engaged in 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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JANUARY 23
"New Inventions, Scientific Principles, and Curious Works: Rufus Porter and Nineteenth-Century Dreams of Interconnection"
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
JANUARY 30
"Fast Fashion/Slow Art: A Conversation with Curators Bibiana Obler and Phyllis Rosenzweig"
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
JANUARY 31
Student Summer Internship Talk
3:00 p.m.
Museum of Art
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Banner image: Detail from
The Family Evening
, oil on canvas by Gene Marguerite Thompson Zorach, American, 1887-1968. Gift of Dahlov Ipcar and Tessim Zorach, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
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