With classes beginning tomorrow, it's an exciting time of year on the Bowdoin campus. Here at the Museum, we are thrilled about a slate of new exhibitions, public programs, and student interns. If you have not already seen This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today, this critically-acclaimed exhibition will remain on view until October 23. Robert Frank: Sideways --- featuring the work of the celebrated Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker--- opens on September 15 and headlines a series of noteworthy photography exhibitions this fall. Also opening this month is a new installation of nineteenth-century works created by artists from around the world chosen from the Museum's Permanent Collection. Please see the calendar below for a full round-up of lectures, tours, and other public programs. See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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CONTINUING
This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today
Closing October 23, 2016
Featuring sixty works by leading American artists from Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, to Robert Rauschenberg and Yoko Ono, to Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Glenn Ligon, This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today represents the first exhibition to address the history and significance of non-mimetic portraits in American art. The show poses provocative questions about the very nature of likeness and personal identity.
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OPENING SOON
Opening September 15, 2016
Robert Frank played a leading role in re-writing contemporary standards for photography. This exhibition brings together a selection of rarely seen photographs from 1947, the year the artist first moved to the United States, to 1961, when he presented his first major museum exhibition. Moving away from sharply focused, traditionally composed images, he experimented with new focal strategies, low lighting, and unusual cropping. Robert Frank: Sideways was organized with professors Michael Kolster, Russ Rymer, and the students in the spring 2016 seminars, "Writing Creative Nonfiction Through Photography" and "Documentary Photography."
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Digitization and Electronic Resources at the BCMA
As we begin the 2016-2017 school year, the Museum of Art continues to expand its digital resources, providing new modes of electronic access to its collections. We look forward to stimulating and supporting new teaching and research opportunities for the Bowdoin community and beyond through these tools, and welcome your suggestions on how we can continue to develop them.
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New Acquisition for Upcoming Exhibition
This summer the Museum acquired Studies of Butterflies, Moths, Flies, a Beetle, and a Slowworm by the Dutch artist Pieter Withoos (1655 - 1692). This richly detailed drawing in black chalk, ink, and watercolor is engaging because of the variety and beauty of the closely observed specimens, the harmonious composition, and the outstanding state of preservation of the large sheet.
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Recent Gift to Fund Contemporary Art Acquisitions
The Museum is excited to announce a recent gift by George A. Westerberg '59 to create a special fund for the acquisition of new works of contemporary art. Acquisitions are the lifeblood of museums, and contemporary art is an area of special interest to the Museum. Westerberg was an art history major at Bowdoin before embarking on a long career as an Episcopal minister.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this fall! 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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September 6
"Passing into the World as Abstractions" with Sarah Greenough, Senior Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Art 4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Museum of Art
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10:00 am
Museum of Art
moreSeptember 13Gallery Conversation with Artist Mary Hart
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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"Robert Frank: Nobody's Home" with Sarah Kennel, Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum 4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
moreSeptember 20Gallery Conversation with Curator Joachim Homann and Consulting Curator of Decorative Arts Laura Sprague
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
moreSeptember 22Thursday Night Salon: Robert Frank: Sideways with Michael Kolster and Russ Rymer
7:00 pm
Museum of Art
moreSeptember 25Workshop on Fair Use in the Visual Arts and Beyond
11:00 am - 4:30 pm Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall
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Banner image: Visitors enjoy This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.
Photo by Dennis and Diana Griggs.
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