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Cao Fei, detail of "Deep Breathing" (from "COSPlayers" series), 2004, digital c-print. Courtesy of the artist and Lombard Freid Gallery


"Ruins of the Arsenal, Richmond, Virginia, April 1865" (detail), albumen print, by Alexander Gardner, American, 1840-1882.


Portrait of Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain (around age 19-22), oil on canvas. After ALONSO SÁNCHEZ COELLO, Spanish, ca. 1531–1588.


detail of "St. Jerome in his Study," 1514, by Albrecht Durer, German, 1471-1528. Engraving. Bequest of David P. Becker, Class of 1970.


Chen Quinlin, detail of "Solidified Scenery" (from "Peach Blossom"), 2009, glicee print. Courtesy of the artist and Beam Contemporary Art, New York, London.


Egyptian, early Second Century. Mummy Portrait of a Lady, (detail) ca. 100–150, stucco, glass, painted and gilded jewelry with polychrome. Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund and Helen Johnson Chase Fund. 2011.29.


Exhibitions: Current - Past - Upcoming
Current Exhibitions
Alfred Cheney Johnston: Portrait of a Lost Photographer
December 11, 2013 - February 09, 2014
Becker Gallery

This exhibition features the commercial and personal photography of the forgotten artist, Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885–1971).
Sequencing Objects: Two Films
November 07, 2013 - February 24, 2014
Media Gallery

Two short films by contemporary artists present things that seem to have minds of their own.
The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections
November 07, 2013 - June 08, 2014
Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

In this exhibition, significant things from Bowdoin’s diverse collections take center stage.
Regarding the Forces of Nature: From Alma Thomas to Yayoi Kusama
October 31, 2013 - February 09, 2014
Center Gallery

Featuring works by contemporary women artists who conduct basic research of natural phenomena, often focusing on the material qualities of their medium and on the conditions of human perception.
Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists
September 27, 2013 - January 05, 2014
Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Breakthrough presents work by eight exemplary contemporary Chinese women artists: Cai Jin, Cao Fei, Chen Qiulin, Hung Liu, Lin Tianmiao, Peng Wei, Xing Danwen, and Yin Xiuzhen.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Art of the Renaissance
Opening January 23, 2014
Markell Gallery Focusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or Renaissance of the art of classical antiquity

American Paintings and Sculpture, 1830–1950
Opening January 30, 2014
Shaw Ruddock Gallery This introduction to art of the modern period includes masterpieces by Thomas Cole, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, Rockwell Kent, Andrew Wyeth, and others.

Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present
Opening February 06, 2014
Boyd Gallery Deconstructing pictorial conventions of the past, artists of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first century reinvented the picture plane.

Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography
February 27, 2014 - June 01, 2014
Focus Gallery The primary goal of the surrealist movement was to liberate the modern mind by demonstrating how deep psychological impulses could be explored, depicted, and fused with everyday reality.

more Upcoming Exhibitions
Museum News

November 21, 2013 - NEWS - OTHER

Sale at the Museum Shop

November 14, 2013 - NEWS - OTHER

‘Summoning Ghosts’ with Artist Hung Liu

October 21, 2013 - NEWS - PRESS

Co-Directors share a favorite work in the Boston Globe

October 8, 2013 - NEWS - PRESS

"Maurice Prendergast: Themes and Variations" Lecture on Thursday
more News
Museum Events

Lecture: Stone, Wood, Printing Press: Remembering (Almost) Forgotten Crafts

January 30, 2014 | 4:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Museum of Art Open House

January 30, 2014 | 5:30 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

February 1, 2014 | 10:00 AM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Exhibition Preview and Reception for Museum and Maine Alumni Club Members: Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography

February 27, 2014 | 4:30 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Lecture: "'Strange Passion:' Frederick Sommer's Wartime Surrealism"

February 28, 2014 | 4:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Museum Of Art Open House

February 28, 2014 | 5:30 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

March 1, 2014 | 10:00 AM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Lecture: Science is Fiction; A selection of films by Jean Painleve

March 3, 2014 | 6:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom

Lecture: Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections

March 25, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Lecture: "The Portrait in Antiquity"

April 3, 2014 | 4:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

April 5, 2014 | 10:00 AM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Lecture: Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art: “Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealist Movement”

April 10, 2014 | 7:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Lecture: Spotlight Gallery Talk: The Object Show

April 17, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Lecture: Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art: "Spring Flowers: Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist"

April 24, 2014 | 7:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Lecture: The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects

April 30, 2014 | 4:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Lecture: Gallery Talk on the exhibition, "Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography"

May 1, 2014 | 4:30 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

May 3, 2014 | 10:00 AM
Museum of Art, Pavilion

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Thursday: 10:00 a.m.- 8:30 p.m.
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Closed: December 23 through 26, 2013 for the Christmas holiday  

OPEN: Friday, December 27; Saturday, December 28, and Sunday, December 29, 2013  

Closed: December 30, 2013 through January 1, 2014 for the New Year's holiday 

OPEN: on Thursday, January 2, 2014 and back to regular business hours   

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