Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Past Exhibitions
Stephen Hannock
- Oct 14, 2007 – Jan 20, 2008
- Focus Gallery
In the only solo exhibition of the reopening program, artist and Bowdoin Class of 1974 alumnus Stephen Hannock will show a large and just-completed painting conceived for the Museum of Art, together with other related works. Hannock's formal artistic training, begun at Bowdoin, led him to participate in the Twelve College Exchange, where at Smith College he came under the influence of Leonard Baskin, the renowned sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, and graphic artist. Hannock is deeply influenced by the great American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, especially Thomas Cole, whose sweeping vistas of rugged Eastern terrain were imbued with a sense of the romantic and the sublime. The Oxbow for Leonard Baskin and David Becker (Mass MoCA #49), a six foot by eight foot canvas of polished oil over acrylic and collage, is a gift to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and a tribute to curator and scholar David P. Becker, Bowdoin Class of 1972, whose "astounding patronage" has been invaluable to the school and the State. Hannock's dramatic neo-Luminist paintings have been featured in numerous national publications and museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
