Building a College Collection:
Select Recent Acquisitions
Feb 09, 2012 - Jun 24, 2012
Center Gallery
Focus Gallery
Halford Gallery
Unknown Artist (German?), Memento Mori Ivory Janus Head, ca. 1600, Ivory, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Gift of Linda and David Roth in Memory of David P. Becker, 2011.262 3/4 in. x 1 1/2 in. x 1 5/8 in. (6.99 cm x 3.81 cm x 4.13 cm)
Building on the foundational gifts of the Bowdoin family and other generous donors, the Museum collection has grown to encompass over 20,000 objects. This exhibition highlights some of the recent gifts and purchases expanding the Museum's encyclopedic holdings. This installation will feature select sculpture, paintings, photographs, works on paper, and decorative arts.Among those artists represented are Ansel Adams, Eva Hesse, Ando Hiroshige, Henry Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Puryear and Man Ray.