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Frederick Sommer, American, 1905–1999, Max Ernst, 1946 (detail), gelatin silver print. © Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation


Installation view of "The Object Show"


Lucio Pozzi, "Portrait of Dorothy Vogel" and "Portrait of Herbert Vogel," 2001, black-and-white photographs. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. © Pozzi 2001


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.


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


Exhibitions: Current - Past - Upcoming
Current Exhibitions
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.
Surrealism in Motion
February 27, 2014 - June 01, 2014
Media Gallery

A selection of short films by Surrealist filmmakers in conjunction with the exhibition "Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography."
Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present
Opened January 30, 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.
American Artists at Work, 1840-1950
Opened January 30, 2014
Shaw Ruddock Gallery

This introduction to art of the modern period includes masterpieces by Thomas Cole, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and others.
Lovers and Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance
Opened January 24, 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
Upcoming Exhibitions
Frontier Visions: The American West in Image and Myth
May 08, 2014 - June 08, 2014
Zuckert Seminar Room This exhibition explores representations of the frontier in American culture from the nineteenth century to the present day.

"It’s What You Do With What You View”: Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
June 27, 2014 - September 14, 2014
Zuckert Seminar Room A selection from the recent gift of 320 works of art from the celebrated collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel.

Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective
June 28, 2014 - October 19, 2014
Focus Gallery Offering new insight into his artistic practice, and organized in close collaboration with the artist, "Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective" is the first-ever comprehensive examination of the prints of Richard Tuttle.

The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb
July 10, 2014 - September 14, 2014
Shaw Ruddock Gallery featuring forty vintage photographs of jazz musicians in performance from the collection of the photographer’s family.

Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth
Opening September 27, 2014
Shaw Ruddock Gallery The prints by the Dutch engraver, draftsman, and painter Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) are dazzling for their technical refinement and provocative sensuality.

more Upcoming Exhibitions
Museum News

April 11, 2014 - NEWS - LECTURE

Susan Wegner and Nathaniel Wheelwright speak on "The Object Show" on April 17

April 1, 2014 - NEWS - LECTURE

Fred Albertson to lecture on "The Bowdoin Portrait of Antoninus Pius" on April 3

March 14, 2014 - NEWS - PRESS

New York Times, Boston Globe Put Museum of Art In Focus

February 27, 2014 - NEWS - LECTURE

"Strange Passion: Frederick Sommer's Wartime Surrealism" and Open House on February 28
more News
Museum Events

Lecture: Multiple Perspectives in "The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections"

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 on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014

Closed on Mondays and national holidays.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is open to the public free of charge, although donations are welcome. The Museum is wheelchair accessible through the Pavilion entrance. Bowdoin College Museum of Art is a member of The Maine Art Museum Trail

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