Art History

Art History at Bowdoin offers courses that examine works of art in their historical, social, religious, and philosophical contexts. Students study not only the formal aesthetic values of these works, but also the ways in which they reflect the cultures and the personalities that produced them.

Student Research

Visual Arts
Digital & Computational Studies

Announcement

Art History Fall 2022 Course Offerings

Here are the Art History courses for Fall 2022.

Announcement

2022 Bowdoin Honor Prizes Awarded

Congratulations to this year's
Art History Honor Prize Recipients!

Anne Bartlett Lewis Memorial Prize
Lucy Rose Siegel '22

Art History Junior-Year Prize
Brandon Schuster '23, Ramiro Storni '23,
and Jingyi (Jane) Wang '23

Art History Senior-Year Prize
Etin-Osa Elisha Osemobor '22

Announcement

Bowdoin Art History Majors and Minors: Summer 2022

A sampling of Art History majors and minors summer and/or post graduation jobs.

Bowdoin Museum of Art

Upcoming Events

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words: Teaching the Holocaust
Middle and high school educators attend a Bowdoin summer institute exploring how to teach the Holocaust through visual culture. The two-week seminar was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Art Up Close at the BCMA
Art History students, Claire Traum '21 and Lucy Siegel '22, organize and present a monthly webinar highlighting the Bowdoin College Museum of Art collection.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Announces Public Reopening July 1 with Four New Exhibitions
After more than a year of pandemic-related closure, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will reopen to the public on July 1, 2021, when it will present four new exhibitions.