Upcoming Exhibitions

Emerging Modernisms, 1900–1950

June 29, 2019 - December 31, 2019, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

An overview of Bowdoin’s outstanding collection of artwork from the first half of the twentieth century .

Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts

June 29, 2019 - November 10, 2019, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Center Gallery, Halford Gallery, Becker Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Presenting exceptional works of art since 1970 from the collection, many on view for the first time, this exhibition highlights art’s purposes as tools for observation, inquiry, and learning in a Liberal Arts context.

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

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

This exhibition celebrates the artist and inventor Rufus Porter (1792–1884), an imaginative polymath and entrepreneur curious about art, science, and communication technologies.