Past Exhibitions | Bowdoin College

A ornate pottery vase shaped like a ram's head

Flora et Fauna: Nature in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Culture

Mar 06, 2025 - Sep 06, 2026, Walker Gallery

A colorful drawing depicting bold shapes and the number 50

Celebrating Independence! Fifty Years of Spindleworks, 1976–2026

May 20, 2026 - Aug 16, 2026, Zuckert Seminar Room

Front Lines: Women Etchers at the Fore, 1880 to Today

Aug 07, 2025 - Aug 09, 2026, Markell Gallery

A detail of a colorful painting that shows women laborers in a field

Hung Liu: Happy and Gay

Dec 11, 2025 - May 31, 2026, Media Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery

A detail of a magazine cover showing colorful abstract shapes in turquoise hues

Creating the Modern: Works on Paper from a Recent Gift by Howard M. Haimes ’76

Mar 26, 2026 - May 31, 2026, Becker Gallery

Josefina Auslender: Drawing Myself Free

Dec 09, 2025 - May 31, 2026, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

A detail of an Old Master drawing of two saints flanking an image of the Virgin and Child

From Guild to Genius: Inventing "The Artist" in Western Culture

Jan 15, 2026 - Mar 08, 2026, Becker Gallery

A detail of a 19th century oil painting shows a Spanish street scene

Visions Unsettled: Stages of the Self in the Hispanic World, from the Spanish Empire to the Global Present

Oct 02, 2025 - Dec 21, 2025, Becker Gallery

Currents: Art Since 1875

Oct 12, 2023 - Dec 07, 2025, Boyd Gallery

Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475-1875

May 14, 2021 - Dec 07, 2025, Bowdoin Gallery

A film grab shows a close up of a fern leaf

Rudy Burckhardt: Three Maine Films

Jun 28, 2025 - Nov 09, 2025, Media Gallery

A detail of a black and white photograph shows a rusted shell of a car in a coastal landscape

John McKee: As Maine Goes

Jun 28, 2025 - Nov 09, 2025, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

A detail of a black and white photograph shows a general store owner seated in front of his merchandise

Gordon Parks: Herklas Brown and Maine, 1944

Jun 28, 2025 - Nov 09, 2025, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

A painting of a crescent moon seen through tree branches

Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory)

May 22, 2025 - Aug 17, 2025, Zuckert Seminar Room

A jug featuring the likeness of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as an older bearded man

Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880

Feb 06, 2025 - Jul 20, 2025, Markell Gallery

Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands

Dec 12, 2024 - Jun 01, 2025, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Women in white dress sit in a row on a red carpet facing the camera

Reimagining Our Américas: Empathy and Activism Beyond Borders

Mar 25, 2025 - Jun 01, 2025, Becker Gallery

Seated figure with a lattice structure perched on top of head

Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now

Jan 16, 2025 - Jun 01, 2025, Media Gallery, Rotunda, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery

From Daughters to Mothers: A Study of Reproductive Labor

Dec 19, 2024 - Mar 02, 2025, Becker Gallery

Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Bowdoin Collection

Feb 01, 2024 - Feb 09, 2025, Walker Gallery

Hello, Stranger: Artist as Subject in Photographic Portraits since 1900

Oct 25, 2024 - Aug 10, 2025, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Witnessing War: Ogawa Kazumasa and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Aug 01, 2024 - Dec 15, 2024, Markell Gallery

Empires of Liberty: Athena, America, and the Feminine Allegory of the State

Jun 29, 2024 - Nov 10, 2024, Becker Gallery

Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time

Jun 29, 2024 - Nov 10, 2024, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Becker Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Rotunda

Threads: Artists Weave their Worlds

Oct 12, 2023 - Oct 06, 2024, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Tom Burckhardt: Informal Worship

May 23, 2024 - Aug 18, 2024, Zuckert Seminar Room

The Book of Two Hemispheres: "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" in the United States and Europe

Jan 25, 2024 - Jul 21, 2024, Markell Gallery

Jim Dine: Last Year's Forgotten Harvest

Dec 07, 2023 - Jun 02, 2024, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures

Dec 14, 2023 - Jun 02, 2024, Center Gallery, Media Gallery, Focus Gallery

Empires of Liberty: Athena, America, and the Feminine Allegory of the State

Mar 21, 2024 - Jun 02, 2024, Becker Gallery

Nick van Woert: History, Material, Environment

May 24, 2023 - Apr 14, 2024, Rotunda

Face Forward: Recent Acquisitions

Nov 30, 2023 - Mar 10, 2024, Becker Gallery

Figures from the Fire: J. Pierpont Morgan’s Ancient Bronzes from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Mar 02, 2023 - Dec 23, 2023, Walker Gallery

Metamorphosis and Malice: Pontormo’s Three Monochrome Paintings from Renaissance Florence and Related Works

Aug 03, 2023 - Dec 17, 2023, Markell Gallery

People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965

Jun 24, 2023 - Nov 05, 2023, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Becker Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable

Apr 06, 2023 - Sep 17, 2023, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery

Emilie Stark-Menneg's Supernatural

Jun 24, 2023 - Aug 20, 2023, Zuckert Seminar Room

Masks of Memories: Art and Ceremony in Nineteenth Century Oceania

Oct 06, 2022 - Jul 16, 2023, Markell Gallery

Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art

Dec 15, 2022 - Jun 04, 2023, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

Human Nature: Environmental Studies at 50

Mar 16, 2023 - Jun 04, 2023, Becker Gallery

In Light of Rome: Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842–1871

Dec 08, 2022 - Jun 04, 2023, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman: Without Limits

Sep 15, 2022 - Mar 12, 2023, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Andean Modernities / Contemporary Art: Cultural Transformation in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia

Jan 19, 2023 - Mar 05, 2023, Becker Gallery

Antiquity & America: The Ancient Mediterranean in the United States

Mar 31, 2022 - Feb 05, 2023, Walker Gallery, Rotunda, Assyrian Gallery, Boyd Gallery

At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine

Jun 25, 2022 - Nov 06, 2022, Center Gallery, Media Gallery, Becker Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery

Innovation and Resilience Across Three Generations of Wabanaki Basket-Making

Feb 01, 2022 - Sep 18, 2022, Markell Gallery

At First Light: Photographs of Maine Artist Studios and Homes by Walter Smalling

May 26, 2022 - Aug 21, 2022, Zuckert Seminar Room

Powdered Pigments: Three Centuries of Pastel Drawings

Apr 07, 2022 - Aug 21, 2022, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be

Feb 24, 2022 - Jun 05, 2022, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Jona Frank: Model Home

Feb 24, 2022 - Jun 05, 2022, Becker Gallery, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Center Gallery

Assyria to America

Oct 24, 2019 - Feb 27, 2022, Walker Gallery, Assyrian Gallery

New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection

Sep 08, 2020 - Feb 27, 2022, Boyd Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art

Sep 16, 2021 - Jan 30, 2022, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Creeping Pavement: Depictions of an Urbanizing America

Apr 09, 2021 - Dec 23, 2021, Becker Gallery

Transformations: New Acquisitions of Global Contemporary Art

Jul 01, 2021 - Dec 23, 2021, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

The Presence of the Past: Art from Central and West Africa

Aug 14, 2020 - Dec 18, 2021, Markell Gallery

Laurel Nakadate | 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears

Jul 01, 2021 - Aug 15, 2021, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

To Instruct and Delight: European and American Art, 1500-1800

Jan 15, 2015 - Apr 04, 2021, Bowdoin Gallery

Fast Fashion/Slow Art

Jan 30, 2020 - Aug 02, 2020, Boyd Gallery

Emerging Modernisms, American and European Art, 1900–1950

Jun 29, 2019 - Aug 02, 2020, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Maine’s Lithographic Landscapes: Town & City Views, 1830-1870

Dec 12, 2019 - May 31, 2020, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815–1860

Dec 12, 2019 - May 31, 2020, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

The Visitors: Andrea Dezsö

Feb 20, 2020 - May 31, 2020, Becker Gallery

Pasado y Presente: Twentieth-Century Photographs of a Changing Mexico

Jan 07, 2020 - Mar 15, 2020, Markell Gallery

African/American: Two Centuries of Portraits

Nov 07, 2019 - Feb 09, 2020, Becker Gallery

The Nineteenth Century: American and European Art

May 02, 2019 - Jan 05, 2020, Boyd Gallery

Chinese Ceramics, Jades, and Paintings

Feb 01, 2019 - Dec 15, 2019, Markell Gallery

Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts

Jun 29, 2019 - Nov 10, 2019, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Center Gallery, Halford Gallery, Becker Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Palace Reliefs from Kalhu (Nimrud)

Oct 15, 2007 - Oct 23, 2019, Assyrian Gallery

In the Round: Ancient Art from All Sides

Aug 23, 2018 - Oct 13, 2019, Rotunda

"Let's Get Lost" and "Listening Glass"

Sep 27, 2018 - Sep 29, 2019, Walker Gallery

Suspense: Key Moments in Midcentury Art

May 30, 2019 - Aug 18, 2019, Zuckert Seminar Room

Photographic Lives: Robert Freson, Irving Penn, and the Portrait

Mar 28, 2019 - Jun 02, 2019, Becker Gallery

Treasures from the Wyvern Collection: A Special Preview

May 23, 2019 - Jun 02, 2019, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment

Dec 06, 2018 - Jun 02, 2019, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Media Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Center Gallery

Modernism for All: The Bauhaus at 100

Mar 01, 2019 - May 12, 2019, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Among Women

Oct 11, 2018 - Apr 07, 2019, Boyd Gallery

Fashioning Modernity: Art and Independence among Yorubas in Nigeria

Jan 17, 2019 - Mar 17, 2019, Becker Gallery

Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies

Oct 04, 2018 - Feb 10, 2019, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

A Handheld History: Five Centuries of Medals from the Molinari Collection at Bowdoin College

Jul 26, 2018 - Jan 20, 2019, Markell Gallery

Spring of Discontent: The Photography of Michael Ruetz

Nov 15, 2018 - Jan 06, 2019, Becker Gallery

Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting

Jun 23, 2018 - Oct 28, 2018, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/Space

Apr 19, 2018 - Sep 16, 2018, Boyd Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Contemporary Masters

Jan 30, 2014 - Sep 07, 2018, Boyd Gallery

Made In Maine

May 24, 2018 - Aug 19, 2018, Zuckert Seminar Room

AEGYPTUS Egypt in the Greco-Roman World

Feb 02, 2017 - Jul 29, 2018, Walker Gallery

Art from the Northern Plains

Nov 09, 2017 - Jul 15, 2018, Markell Gallery

Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art

Mar 01, 2018 - Jun 03, 2018, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Media Gallery, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

Reading Room: Experiments in Collaborative Dialogue and Archival Practice in the Arts

Mar 29, 2018 - Jun 03, 2018, Becker Gallery

Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900–2000

Dec 14, 2017 - Apr 08, 2018, Boyd Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Where the Artist's Hand Meets the Author's Pen: Drawings from the Artine Artinian Collection

Jan 19, 2018 - Mar 22, 2018, Becker Gallery

Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars

Sep 23, 2017 - Feb 11, 2018, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery

Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality

Sep 23, 2017 - Jan 07, 2018, Becker Gallery

The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe

Jun 24, 2017 - Nov 26, 2017, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery

Barkley Hendricks: “Let’s Make Some History”

Jul 20, 2017 - Oct 29, 2017, Markell Gallery

Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College

May 03, 2017 - Sep 03, 2017, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Center Gallery, Becker Gallery

John Walker: A Painter Draws

May 18, 2017 - Aug 20, 2017, Zuckert Seminar Room

Urban Impressions: New York City in Prints, 1900–1940

Mar 30, 2017 - Jul 09, 2017, Markell Gallery

Modern Medieval: Materiality and Spirituality in German Expressionism

Feb 16, 2017 - Jun 04, 2017, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Art and Artifacts of the Nineteenth Century

Sep 22, 2016 - May 28, 2017, Boyd Gallery

Sosaku-hanga: Twentieth-Century Japanese Creative Prints

Jan 10, 2017 - Apr 16, 2017, Center Gallery

Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings, and the Art of Resolution

Jan 10, 2017 - Apr 16, 2017, Becker Gallery

Art & Resolution, 1900 to Today

Nov 15, 2016 - Apr 16, 2017, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Dec 06, 2016 - Mar 19, 2017, Markell Gallery

Robert Frank: Sideways

Sep 15, 2016 - Jan 29, 2017, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Contest! Challenge, Competition, and Combat in Ancient Art

Apr 28, 2015 - Jan 08, 2017, Walker Gallery

Where Do I Go From Here? Snapshots of Twentieth-Century Life

Nov 03, 2016 - Dec 31, 2016, Becker Gallery

Renaissance Rivalries: Painting and its Sister Arts

Apr 26, 2016 - Nov 27, 2016, Markell Gallery

This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today

Jun 25, 2016 - Oct 23, 2016, Media Gallery, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Becker Gallery

R. Luke DuBois – Now

Mar 31, 2016 - Sep 04, 2016, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery

Barbara Cooney: Drawing Biography

May 19, 2016 - Aug 21, 2016, Zuckert Seminar Room

Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions: The Artifice of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism

Apr 12, 2016 - Jun 05, 2016, Becker Gallery

To Count Art an Intimate Friend: Highlights from Bowdoin Collections, 1794 to the Present

Nov 05, 2015 - Jun 05, 2016, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Elise Ansel: Distant Mirrors

Jan 14, 2016 - Apr 17, 2016, Markell Gallery

Dissent in 1960s America: The Photography of Ken Thompson

Jan 26, 2016 - Apr 03, 2016, Becker Gallery

Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa

Oct 15, 2015 - Mar 06, 2016, Media Gallery, Halford Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Olive Pierce: Photographing a Maine Fishing Community

Oct 29, 2015 - Jan 17, 2016, Becker Gallery

Gilbert Stuart: From Boston to Brunswick

Jul 09, 2015 - Jan 03, 2016, Markell Gallery

Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960

Jun 27, 2015 - Oct 18, 2015, Halford Gallery, Becker Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery

Michel Auder: Untitled (I Was Looking Back To See If You Were Looking Back At Me To See Me Looking Back At You)

Jun 27, 2015 - Oct 18, 2015, Media Gallery

A Mind of Winter: Photographs by Abelardo Morell

May 05, 2015 - Sep 27, 2015, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Peasants and Patricians: Art of the Nineteenth Century

Apr 02, 2015 - Sep 20, 2015, Boyd Gallery

"Empire Follows Art”: Culture and Identity in the Atlantic World

May 10, 2015 - Aug 30, 2015, Zuckert Seminar Room

Rocks, Waves, and Skies: Maine Landscapes, 1900-1950

Jan 15, 2015 - Jun 28, 2015, Markell Gallery

Mapping the Ancient Origins of Light

Mar 19, 2015 - Jun 07, 2015, Becker Gallery

Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas

Mar 05, 2015 - Jun 07, 2015, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne

Mar 14, 2015 - Apr 26, 2015, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Imago to Persona: Portraits from Antiquity

Aug 15, 2013 - Apr 12, 2015, Walker Gallery

Letters and Shadows: African American Art and Literature Since the Harlem Renaissance

Jan 22, 2015 - Mar 15, 2015, Becker Gallery

Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum

Sep 27, 2014 - Mar 08, 2015, Boyd Gallery

Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth

Sep 27, 2014 - Mar 01, 2015, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Alison de Vere: Psyche and Eros

Oct 02, 2014 - Feb 22, 2015, Rotunda

Collaborations and Collusions: Artists’ Networks from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Nov 06, 2014 - Feb 08, 2015, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery

Revealing Mediterranean Women

Oct 30, 2014 - Jan 18, 2015, Becker Gallery

James Bowdoin's America: Paintings and Decorative Arts , 1660-1830

Aug 08, 2013 - Jan 04, 2015, Bowdoin Gallery

Lovers and Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance

Jan 24, 2014 - Jan 04, 2015, Markell Gallery

Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective

Jun 28, 2014 - Oct 19, 2014, Focus Gallery, Becker Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

"It’s What You Do With What You View”: Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Jun 28, 2014 - Sep 14, 2014, Zuckert Seminar Room

On 52nd Street: The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb

Jul 10, 2014 - Sep 14, 2014, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

American Artists at Work, 1840-1950

Jan 30, 2014 - Jul 06, 2014, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Frontier Visions: The American West in Image and Myth

May 08, 2014 - Jun 08, 2014, Zuckert Seminar Room

The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections

Nov 07, 2013 - Jun 01, 2014, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography

Feb 27, 2014 - Jun 01, 2014, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Becker Gallery

Surrealism in Motion

Feb 27, 2014 - Jun 01, 2014, Media Gallery

Sequencing Objects: Two Films

Nov 07, 2013 - Feb 24, 2014, Media Gallery

Regarding the Forces of Nature: From Alma Thomas to Yayoi Kusama

Oct 31, 2013 - Feb 09, 2014, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

Alfred Cheney Johnston: Portrait of a Lost Photographer

Dec 11, 2013 - Feb 09, 2014, Becker Gallery

"This Mighty Scourge of War:" Art of the American Civil War

Aug 08, 2013 - Jan 08, 2014, Markell Gallery

Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists

Sep 27, 2013 - Jan 05, 2014, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery

“How She Should Behave:” Women’s Archetypes in Early Modern Europe

Oct 24, 2013 - Dec 08, 2013, Becker Gallery

Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea

Jun 29, 2013 - Oct 13, 2013, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Prélude à la mer

Sep 05, 2013 - Oct 13, 2013, Media Gallery

Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Art

Jul 26, 2013 - Sep 15, 2013, Boyd Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Katherine Bradford ~AUGUST~

Jun 29, 2013 - Sep 01, 2013, Other

Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture

Mar 26, 2013 - Jul 14, 2013, Markell Gallery, Boyd Gallery, Walker Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Bowdoin Gallery

Unity and Fragmentation: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Mar 29, 2013 - Jun 02, 2013, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Transformative Gestures: Paintings of the Renaissance

Mar 12, 2013 - Jun 02, 2013, Becker Gallery

Simply Divine: Gods and Demigods in the Ancient Mediterranean

Mar 08, 2013 - Jun 02, 2013, Center Gallery

Sense of Scale, Measure by Color: Art, Science, and Mathematics of Planet Earth

Apr 04, 2013 - Jun 02, 2013, Focus Gallery

Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker

Nov 15, 2012 - Mar 24, 2013, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Real/Ideal: Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Painting

Jan 15, 2013 - Mar 10, 2013, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

The Fixed Image: History and Process in American Photography

Jan 18, 2013 - Mar 10, 2013, Becker Gallery

Fantastic Stories: The Supernatural in Nineteenth-century Japanese Prints

Nov 09, 2012 - Mar 03, 2013, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery

Simply Divine: Gods and Demigods in the Ancient Mediterranean

Jul 31, 2012 - Feb 27, 2013, Walker Gallery

In Dialogue: Art from Bowdoin and Colgate Collections

Aug 23, 2012 - Feb 26, 2013, Boyd Gallery

The Renaissance & The Revival of Classical Antiquity

Aug 01, 2012 - Feb 24, 2013, Markell Gallery

In a New Light: American and European Masters

Aug 28, 2012 - Feb 24, 2013, Bowdoin Gallery

The Renaissance & The Revival of Classical Antiquity

Feb 25, 2010 - Feb 17, 2013, Markell Gallery

"We Never See Anything Clearly:" John Ruskin and Landscape Painting

Oct 30, 2012 - Jan 16, 2013, Becker Gallery

Michelangelo: Art and Afterlife

Dec 06, 2012 - Dec 23, 2012, Zuckert Seminar Room

Making a Presence: F. Holland Day in Artistic Photography

Sep 06, 2012 - Dec 23, 2012, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

William Wegman: Hello Nature

Jul 13, 2012 - Oct 21, 2012, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Becker Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Media Gallery, Focus Gallery

A River Lost & Found: The Androscoggin in Time and Place

Jul 13, 2012 - Sep 16, 2012, Zuckert Seminar Room

Winslow Homer to Eva Hesse: Watercolors from the Bowdoin Collection

Jul 27, 2012 - Aug 26, 2012, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Lesley Vance

Apr 12, 2012 - Jul 02, 2012, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Telephones: by Christian Marclay

Feb 16, 2012 - Jun 24, 2012, Media Gallery

Marvin Bileck and Emily Nelligan: On Great Cranberry Island

Jan 01, 2012 - Jun 24, 2012, Becker Gallery

Carrie Mae Weems: The Maddening Crowd

May 25, 2012 - Jun 17, 2012, Other

Motion and Emotion: Contemporary Art from Gerhard Richter to Chakaia Booker

Feb 16, 2012 - Jun 03, 2012, Boyd Gallery

Insight Out - Exploring Gifts of Art from Private Collectors

Jan 24, 2012 - Apr 29, 2012, Becker Gallery, Focus Gallery

Intimations of Independence: The First 100 Years of American Portraiture

Jan 26, 2012 - Apr 12, 2012, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Building a College Collection: Select Recent Acquisitions

Feb 09, 2012 - Apr 01, 2012, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Where hath fleeting beauty led? Selections of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art

Oct 28, 2011 - Feb 05, 2012, Center Gallery

After Atget: Todd Webb Photographs New York and Paris

Oct 28, 2011 - Jan 29, 2012, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan

Sep 01, 2011 - Jan 08, 2012, Boyd Gallery

Edward Hopper's Maine

Jul 15, 2011 - Oct 16, 2011, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Hopper's Contemporaries: Artists in New England

Jun 16, 2011 - Sep 11, 2011, Zuckert Seminar Room

Learning to Paint: American Artists and European Art, 1876-1893

Jan 26, 2010 - Jul 11, 2011, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

Recent Acquisitions: A Selection

May 24, 2011 - Jul 03, 2011, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Feb 17, 2011 - Jun 26, 2011, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Modernism at Bowdoin: American Paintings, 1900-1940

Jan 12, 2011 - Jun 26, 2011, Boyd Gallery

Displaying Devotion

Feb 17, 2011 - Jun 19, 2011, Becker Gallery, Focus Gallery

The Bible Illuminated: R.Crumb's Book of Genesis

Feb 08, 2011 - May 15, 2011, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

James Joyce and/on Film

Mar 29, 2011 - Apr 17, 2011, Media Gallery

Beholding and Being Awake to Mindfulness

Nov 23, 2010 - Feb 06, 2011, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Sit Down! Chairs from Six Centuries

Oct 21, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011, Center Gallery, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Raymond Pettibon's "Repeater Pencil"

Oct 21, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011, Media Gallery

American and European Paintings and Sculpture - Selections

Jul 27, 2010 - Jan 09, 2011, Boyd Gallery

Moving the Image: Women and the Camera

Oct 26, 2010 - Nov 28, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

The Art of the Deal

Sep 15, 2010 - Oct 24, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

William Wegman: Made in Maine

Jul 28, 2010 - Oct 10, 2010, Media Gallery

Maine as Muse

Jul 16, 2010 - Oct 03, 2010, Focus Gallery

Henry Moore - The Drawings: Works on Paper from the Henry Moore Family Collection

Jul 22, 2010 - Oct 03, 2010, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Scratching the Surface: Master Prints from the Charles Pendexter Gift

Jun 16, 2010 - Sep 12, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Colonial Portraits

Jun 03, 2010 - Sep 03, 2010, Zuckert Seminar Room

Contemporary Masters

Jun 16, 2010 - Aug 21, 2010, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Methods for Modernism

Apr 08, 2010 - Jul 11, 2010, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Bowdoin Gallery Reinstallation

Dec 03, 2009 - Jul 03, 2010, Bowdoin Gallery

Grounded: Two Centuries of American Landscapes

Aug 14, 2009 - Jun 20, 2010, Boyd Gallery

Banned in France: Recovering the Enlightenment Foundations of the James Bowdoin III Collection

Apr 20, 2010 - Jun 13, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Absent the Center: Work by Danny Jauregui

Mar 02, 2010 - Jun 06, 2010, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Manufactured Landscapes

Mar 12, 2010 - Apr 07, 2010, Media Gallery

Basquiat/Warhol

Jan 19, 2010 - Apr 04, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

In Focus: Photographs from the Permanent Collection

Jan 19, 2010 - Mar 14, 2010, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Twentieth-Century Art: Highlights from the Collection

Dec 22, 2009 - Feb 21, 2010, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker

Nov 17, 2009 - Feb 14, 2010, Media Gallery

For all the Saints

Nov 10, 2009 - Jan 10, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Collages by Romare Bearden

Oct 01, 2009 - Jan 05, 2010, Focus Gallery

From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden

Oct 01, 2009 - Jan 03, 2010, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Center Gallery

Visual Conversations: A Study Gallery for Art History 100

Sep 15, 2009 - Dec 20, 2009, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Japan and the World

Oct 06, 2009 - Nov 08, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Light and Shadow: The Aesthetics of German Expressionism

Sep 01, 2009 - Oct 04, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

ling-wen tsai: Selections from "water & wind"

Jun 30, 2009 - Sep 29, 2009, Media Gallery

Prints/Drawings & Drawings/Prints, 1500-1800

Aug 04, 2009 - Sep 20, 2009, Halford Gallery

Winslow Homer: At the Water's Edge

Jun 09, 2009 - Sep 13, 2009, Focus Gallery

Face Forward: Portraits from the American Collection

Apr 17, 2009 - Sep 13, 2009, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Drawn to Illustration

Jun 30, 2009 - Aug 30, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

ling-wen tsai: liminal landscapes

Jun 30, 2009 - Aug 29, 2009, Zuckert Seminar Room

Rodin: The Knowledge of a Thousand Gestures

Jan 29, 2009 - Aug 02, 2009, Rotunda, Bowdoin Gallery

New York Cool

Apr 17, 2009 - Jul 19, 2009, Boyd Gallery, Halford Gallery

Third-Party Politics: Britain, France, and America in an Age of Revolution

Apr 09, 2009 - Jun 28, 2009, Center Gallery

Songdelay

Apr 07, 2009 - Jun 28, 2009, Media Gallery

Paintings for "Miss Rumphius" by Barbara Cooney

Jun 05, 2009 - Jun 28, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Stephen Hannock

May 19, 2009 - Jun 21, 2009, Zuckert Seminar Room, Focus Gallery

Curating Across the Disciplines: Intersections Between Math and Art

Apr 28, 2009 - May 31, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Ink Tales

Feb 03, 2009 - May 10, 2009, Focus Gallery

Curating Across the Disciplines: The Frontier

Mar 03, 2009 - Apr 26, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age

Jan 22, 2009 - Apr 05, 2009, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Moby Dick by Guy Ben-Ner

Jan 29, 2009 - Apr 05, 2009, Media Gallery

The Art of Instruction-The Site of Inspiration

Jan 06, 2009 - Apr 05, 2009, Center Gallery

American Spirit: Highlights from the Collection

Jun 11, 2008 - Mar 11, 2009, Boyd Gallery

Curating Across the Disciplines: Drawing a Crowd

Jan 20, 2009 - Mar 01, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Michael Mazur: Fall Mountains for Kuo Shi (Guo Xi)

Jun 24, 2008 - Jan 25, 2009, Focus Gallery

Lewis deSoto's Paranirvana/Self-Portrait

Jun 26, 2008 - Jan 22, 2009, Rotunda

Errant Behaviors: A Projection and Sound Installation by Anne Wilson

Aug 16, 2008 - Jan 18, 2009, Media Gallery

Hogarth's Women: Virtue and Vice in Eighteenth-Century England

Nov 18, 2008 - Jan 18, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Parterre: An Installation by Lauren Fensterstock

Oct 03, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009, Halford Gallery

Fantastical Fables: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by Amy Cutler

Oct 03, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

James Bowdoin III: Pursuing Style in the Age of Independence

Sep 09, 2008 - Aug 16, 2009, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Competing Natures: Edward Burtynsky's Views of China

Oct 22, 2008 - Dec 23, 2008, Center Gallery

Genesis and Its Interpreters

Aug 07, 2008 - Nov 16, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Landscape Photography: Politics and Poetics

Jul 01, 2008 - Oct 19, 2008, Center Gallery

Passages

Sep 02, 2008 - Oct 05, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Great Graphics: Drawings Since 1970

Aug 08, 2008 - Sep 21, 2008, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Mixed Menu: Selected Acquisitions Since 2005

Aug 08, 2008 - Sep 21, 2008, Halford Gallery

Maine Shorts: Early Silent Films from Northeast Historic Films

Jun 10, 2008 - Sep 09, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage

Mar 27, 2008 - Jul 27, 2008, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Glimpses into the Floating World: The History of Ukiyo-E

Mar 18, 2008 - Jun 22, 2008, Focus Gallery

Moving Landcapes: Short Films by Larry Gottheim and JJ Murphy

Apr 15, 2008 - Jun 08, 2008, Media Gallery

You Can't See This: Photography at the Limits of Visibility

Apr 29, 2008 - Jun 01, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Great Graphics II: Prints from 1970 to the Present

Feb 06, 2008 - Jun 01, 2008, Center Gallery

Between the Lines: Trends in Early Modern Printmaking

May 01, 2008 - Jun 01, 2008, Zuckert Seminar Room

Lawn Boy Meets Valley Girl: Gender in the Suburbs

Jan 22, 2008 - Mar 02, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Becoming a (Woman) Artist

Oct 14, 2007 - Nov 25, 2007, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery