Published 05-13-2019 by Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Bowdoin College Museum of Art to Organize First North American Exhibition of the Wyvern Collection, One of the World's Leading Collections of Medieval Art through Long-term Loan

Commencing this May, the loan of more than 100 works of art to BCMA will foster scholarship of and access to the Wyvern Collection. Preview installation on view May 23–June 2, 2019; Major exhibition to open August 2020

Northern Netherlands, "Miniature Altar with St. Catherine," early sixteenth century, boxwood. Wyvern Collection

Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) is pleased to receive the multiyear loan of more than 100 works of art from the Wyvern Collection, a premier private collection of medieval and Renaissance art, which it will preview in a short-term installation this month. Beginning in August 2020, BCMA will present the first dedicated exhibition of the collection in North America, providing new insights into this medieval visual culture and displaying many of these works publicly for the first time. With this loan, the quantity, quality, and diversity of medieval and Renaissance objects available for viewing and study at Bowdoin will be unsurpassed among small liberal arts colleges in the
United States. The 2020 exhibition also builds upon the success and scholarly rigor of BCMA’s 2017 international loan exhibition and catalogue Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe.

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