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The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is delighted to announce an extraordinary gift to its permanent collection from long-time friend and generous donor Charles Pendexter, a current resident of Brunswick, Maine.
Totaling over 1,500 prints and 8 drawings, the Pendexter collection expands the breadth of Bowdoin's already rich print holdings, increasing them by twenty percent. The significant gift includes masterpieces by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Édouard Manet, and Giorgio Morandi, among many others, and multiple works by Hendrick Goltzius and Honoré Daumier. Highlights include rare first editions of Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War and Proverbios series, both from the early nineteenth century.
Museum Director Salatino said, "Charles's prints join rich holdings of works on paper at Bowdoin, now made exponentially richer by the generosity of one remarkable man. This truly outstanding gift is an exemplary act of selflessness that recognizes that a great collection is greatest when kept intact, and when shared with the largest possible audience."
Highlights from this gift will be showcased in the summer exhibition Scratching the Surface: Master Prints from the Charles Pendexter Collection, on view in the Becker Gallery from June 16 through August 29, 2010.
For a complete press release, click here.
Pictured above:
Giorgio Morandi, Italian, 1890-1964, Still Life with Five Objects, 1956, etching , Gift of Charles Pendexter, 2009.16.562
