This stellar selection of works by ten of the most discussed contemporary artists explores the subtle relations between the suggestion of physical movement in a work of art and the experience of the viewer of being moved by it.
This installation focuses on some of the most outstanding paintings from Bowdoin College’s collection of colonial and federal portraits, ranked by scholars among the finest in the United States.
This exhibition celebrates the contributions of private art collectors to Bowdoin since the bequest of James Bowdoin III in 1811. Their many gifts – a few of which have been selected - extend the legacy of James Bowdoin III, expand visual and cultural horizons, and enrich the liberal arts curriculum.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art announces the arrival of ten masterpieces of Italian, Dutch, and Spanish painting on long-term loan from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, one of the nation's premiere museums.
This exhibition explores the nature of divinity in the Ancient Mediterranean, the relationships between gods and the realms they control.
The Assyrian relief sculptures in this exhibition are some of the most extraordinary pieces in the Bowdoin collection. Carved at the behest of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II in the 9th century BCE, these stone panels once decorated the walls of the royal palace in the king’s new capital at ancient Kalhu.
