Creeping Pavement: Depictions of an Urbanizing America

Museum of Art Museum of Art

Exhibition: Creeping Pavement: Depictions of an Urbanizing America

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Becker Gallery
"Creeping Pavement" explores artists’ changing attitudes toward urban spaces over the course of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries

Selected Work

A dark etching in black and white showing a bridge at night

Brooklyn Bridge at Night, 1922, aquatint, by Joseph Pennell, American, 1857-1926. Gift of Miss Susan Dwight Bliss

About

Creeping Pavement explores artists’ changing attitudes toward urban spaces over the course of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries, as depicted through a variety of media. This exhibition is curated by the Student Museum Collective, a student group that creates opportunities for Bowdoin students to engage with the museum field.

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