Writing in the international journal New York Arts, critic Michael Miller had high praise for Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s recently concluded exhibition “Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College.”
“Bathsheba,” ca. 1724, pen and brown ink and brown wash, by Sebastiano Ricci, Italian, 1659–1734.
The show, which can still be viewed online, highlighted the Museum’s extensive collection of drawings, established more than two hundred years ago and regarded as the first in the country. While presenting a show structured around this impressive collection, this exhibition “enriches the experience by asking a fluid complex of questions inspired by the drawings themselves—determined ultimately by the aims and activity of the artist,” wrote Miller.
“If this exhibition and its
