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Great Graphics: Prints and Drawings 1470-1970 highlights nearly sixty works on paper from the Museum's renowned holdings of prints and drawings. Curated by print collector, scholar, and Bowdoin alumnus David Becker, this show will feature a comprehensive display that unites Rembrandt and Picasso, Rubens and Homer, Dürer and Cassatt, and Goya and Klee in lively juxtapositions of hand, date, medium, and topic transcending borders and time. The Museum's collection of prints and drawings began almost 200 years ago, with James Bowdoin III's 1811 bequest of 141 old master drawings and 12 prints. It has since grown to nearly six thousand works dating from the fifteenth century to the present. In honor of the reopening of the Museum, this selection offers a tantalizing glimpse into the tremendous variety of this collection, in the hope that it will inspire students, scholars, and visitors to look further. In addition to continuing smaller exhibitions, many more prints and drawings are shown in classes that meet in the Museum's seminar room, studying topics from French literature to medicine to urban life to Renaissance art history.
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Arshile Gorky, American, 1904-1948, Untitled, 1943, Graphite and colored crayon , Gift of Walter K. Gutman, Class of 1924, 1966.91
