Fifty Years Later

Commemorating its 50th anniversary, this website was created to shed new light on the exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting, organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 1964. While critically acclaimed at the time, this seminal exhibition has not received significant attention. Like the exhibition, this website is a collaborative effort. Organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, and the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, this website brings this historic exhibition into the digital realm to continue its legacy.

Much of the content for this website was generated by undergraduate students in the course Race and Representation in American Art, taught by Assistant Professor Dana E. Byrd in Spring 2014. To contact the website's organizers for more information, write to: BCMA1964show@gmail.com

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BRIDGET R. COOKS, Associate Professor in the Program in African American Studies and Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine

Double Consciousness: Remembering Black Images in American Struggles for Freedom

Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College

November 11, 2014 · 4:30 pm

In this talk, art historian Bridget R. Cooks revisits the seminal Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting in the context of American struggles for racial equality through the visual arts.

Special thanks to Museum, Library, and Art History staff

REBEKAH BEAULIEU, Assistant Director of Operations

SUZANNE BERGERON, Assistant Director of Communications

JENNIFER EDWARDS, Curator of Visual Resources

ANNE GOODYEAR, Co-director of the Museum

FRANK GOODYEAR, Co-director of the Museum

TIM HANSON, Manager of Museum Security Operations

MICHELLE HENNING, Assistant to the Registrar

JO HLUSKA, Assistant Preparator

JESSICA HOLLEY '15, Student Assistant to the Curator

JOACHIM HOMANN, Curator

LAURA LATMAN, Registrar and Collections Manager

RICHARD LINDEMANN, Director, Special Collections & Archives at Bowdoin College

LIZA NELSON, Shop Manager

JOSÉ RIBAS, Preparator

ANDREA ROSEN, Curatorial Assistant

THIS DIGITAL INITIATIVE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION.