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Sit Down! will celebrate the Museum's distinguished collection of American and European furniture, focusing on chairs dating from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Ranging in date from a medieval armchair produced around 1500 to the Nurse Hat Chair designed by Richard Prince in 2008, this exhibition will examine the evolution of style, the nature of technological innovation, and the social meaning of seating furniture. Exemplary loans from Historic New England, Maine Historical Society, Victoria Mansion and several other collections will complement Bowdoin's significant holdings.
Thursday, October 21 at 5:30 p.m.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Open to the public, refreshments will be served
Friday, October 22 at 2 p.m., Halford Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Laura Fecych Sprague, Consulting Curator of Decorative Arts at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. A Chair Chat: Focusing on Bowdoin's Furniture Collection
Friday, October 22 at 5:30 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Florence de Dampierre, author of Chairs: A History, discusses her book and her career
Friday, October 22, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Open to the public, local wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served
Friday, November 5 at 4:30 p.m., Beam Classroom, VAC
Edward S. Cooke Jr., Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Docorative Arts, Yale University. Beyond Necessity: Chairness and the Myths of Function
Pictured above:
William Searle, English, ca. 1634-1667, active in America, Joined Great Chair, 1663-1667, oak, Gift of Ephraim Wilder Farley, Class of 1836, 1872.1
