In a recent review of the Museum’s current exhibition “Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College,” the Boston Globe observes that the more than 150 works in the show reveal both the intimacy and immediacy of drawings and watercolors. “The works allow visitors to figuratively look over artists’ shoulders as they record their perceptions of the world,” reporter Sonia Rao describes after talking with curator Joachim Homann.
The exhibition surveys the Museum’s
