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Stellar examples of Bowdoin’s renowned collection of American art, ranging from Feke’s portraits of military and political leaders of the colonial and federal period through nineteenth-century investigations of the beauty and promise of the American landscape to twentieth-century urban scenes are included in this exhibition. Artists include Robert Feke, Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley, John Quidor, Martin Johnson Heade, Marsden Hartley, John Singer Sargent, John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, and Mary Blood Mellen.
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Mary Blood Mellen , American 1819-1886, Gloucester Harbor, ca. 1870, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Hope P. Gilmor, 1971.42
