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 Spring 2021 Course Offerings

Here are the Art History courses for Spring 2021.

Announcement

Bowdoin Museum of Art and Art History Department Launch “Art Up Close at the BCMA” Webinar Series

The brainchild of Art History majors Lucy Siegel ‘22 and Claire Traum ‘21, “Art Up Close at the BCMA” is an attempt to connect students studying remotely with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

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Hope Stockton '07 MFA Boston Article

Read this Art for this Moment article by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston associate editor of MFA Publications Hope Stockton, Bowdoin class of 2007.

Bowdoin Museum of Art

Upcoming Events

Bowdoin Educators Receive NEH Grant to Hold Holocaust Education Seminar
History professor Page Herrlinger and art history research associate Natasha Goldman secure a six-figure federal grant to offer a seminar next summer for school teachers on “Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture.”
Zachary Skipp ’11 Zooms in to Talk about the Film and Entertainment Industry
Zachary Skipp ’11 recently shared his journey from Bowdoin to his new role on the film acquisitions team at Apple TV+, and he offered some advice for those looking to create a path in the industry.
Sean Sullivan ’08 Helps Mobilize Maine Brewers to Address Hand Sanitizer Need
Sullivan, who heads up the Maine Brewers’ Guild, says the state’s breweries are donating beer to distilleries in an effort to make more hand sanitizer, a much-needed commodity in the war against the novel coronavirus.