Past Exhibitions

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

June 29, 2024 - November 10, 2024, Becker Gallery

Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time

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

Threads: Artists Weave their Worlds

October 12, 2023 - October 6, 2024, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Tom Burckhardt: Informal Worship

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

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

January 25, 2024 - July 21, 2024, Markell Gallery

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

March 21, 2024 - June 2, 2024, Becker Gallery

Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures

December 14, 2023 - June 2, 2024, Center Gallery, Media Gallery, Focus Gallery

Jim Dine: Last Year's Forgotten Harvest

December 7, 2023 - June 2, 2024, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Nick van Woert: History, Material, Environment

May 24, 2023 - April 14, 2024, Rotunda

Face Forward: Recent Acquisitions

November 30, 2023 - March 10, 2024, Becker Gallery

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

March 2, 2023 - December 23, 2023, Walker Gallery

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

August 3, 2023 - December 17, 2023, Markell Gallery

People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965

June 24, 2023 - November 5, 2023, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Becker Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable

April 6, 2023 - September 17, 2023, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery

Emilie Stark-Menneg's Supernatural

June 24, 2023 - August 20, 2023, Zuckert Seminar Room

Masks of Memories: Art and Ceremony in Nineteenth Century Oceania

October 6, 2022 - July 16, 2023, Markell Gallery

Human Nature: Environmental Studies at 50

March 16, 2023 - June 4, 2023, Becker Gallery

Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art

December 15, 2022 - June 4, 2023, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

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

December 8, 2022 - June 4, 2023, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman: Without Limits

September 15, 2022 - March 12, 2023, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

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

January 19, 2023 - March 5, 2023, Becker Gallery

Antiquity & America: The Ancient Mediterranean in the United States

March 31, 2022 - February 5, 2023, Walker Gallery, Rotunda, Assyrian Gallery, Boyd Gallery

At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine

June 25, 2022 - November 6, 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

February 1, 2022 - September 18, 2022, Markell Gallery

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

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

Powdered Pigments: Three Centuries of Pastel Drawings

April 7, 2022 - August 21, 2022, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be

February 24, 2022 - June 5, 2022, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Jona Frank: Model Home

February 24, 2022 - June 5, 2022, Becker Gallery, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Center Gallery

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

September 8, 2020 - February 27, 2022, Boyd Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Assyria to America

October 24, 2019 - February 27, 2022, Walker Gallery, Assyrian Gallery

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

September 16, 2021 - January 30, 2022, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Transformations: New Acquisitions of Global Contemporary Art

July 1, 2021 - December 23, 2021, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

Creeping Pavement: Depictions of an Urbanizing America

April 9, 2021 - December 23, 2021, Becker Gallery

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

August 14, 2020 - December 18, 2021, Markell Gallery

Laurel Nakadate | 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears

July 1, 2021 - August 15, 2021, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

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

January 15, 2015 - April 4, 2021, Bowdoin Gallery

Fast Fashion/Slow Art

January 30, 2020 - August 2, 2020, Boyd Gallery

Emerging Modernisms, American and European Art, 1900–1950

June 29, 2019 - August 2, 2020, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

The Visitors: Andrea Dezsö

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

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

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

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

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

January 7, 2020 - March 15, 2020, Markell Gallery

African/American: Two Centuries of Portraits

November 7, 2019 - February 9, 2020, Becker Gallery

The Nineteenth Century: American and European Art

May 2, 2019 - January 5, 2020, Boyd Gallery

Chinese Ceramics, Jades, and Paintings

February 1, 2019 - December 15, 2019, Markell Gallery

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

Palace Reliefs from Kalhu (Nimrud)

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

In the Round: Ancient Art from All Sides

August 23, 2018 - October 13, 2019, Rotunda

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

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

Suspense: Key Moments in Midcentury Art

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

Treasures from the Wyvern Collection: A Special Preview

May 23, 2019 - June 2, 2019, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

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

March 28, 2019 - June 2, 2019, Becker Gallery

Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment

December 6, 2018 - June 2, 2019, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Media Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Center Gallery

Modernism for All: The Bauhaus at 100

March 1, 2019 - May 12, 2019, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Among Women

October 11, 2018 - April 7, 2019, Boyd Gallery

Fashioning Modernity: Art and Independence among Yorubas in Nigeria

January 17, 2019 - March 17, 2019, Becker Gallery

Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies

October 4, 2018 - February 10, 2019, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

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

July 26, 2018 - January 20, 2019, Markell Gallery

Spring of Discontent: The Photography of Michael Ruetz

November 15, 2018 - January 6, 2019, Becker Gallery

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

June 23, 2018 - October 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

April 19, 2018 - September 16, 2018, Boyd Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Contemporary Masters

January 30, 2014 - September 7, 2018, Boyd Gallery

Made In Maine

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

AEGYPTUS Egypt in the Greco-Roman World

February 2, 2017 - July 29, 2018, Walker Gallery

Art from the Northern Plains

November 9, 2017 - July 15, 2018, Markell Gallery

Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art

March 1, 2018 - June 3, 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

March 29, 2018 - June 3, 2018, Becker Gallery

Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900–2000

December 14, 2017 - April 8, 2018, Boyd Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

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

January 19, 2018 - March 22, 2018, Becker Gallery

Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars

September 23, 2017 - February 11, 2018, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery

Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality

September 23, 2017 - January 7, 2018, Becker Gallery

The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe

June 24, 2017 - November 26, 2017, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery

Barkley Hendricks: “Let’s Make Some History”

July 20, 2017 - October 29, 2017, Markell Gallery

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

May 3, 2017 - September 3, 2017, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Center Gallery, Becker Gallery

John Walker: A Painter Draws

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

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

March 30, 2017 - July 9, 2017, Markell Gallery

Modern Medieval: Materiality and Spirituality in German Expressionism

February 16, 2017 - June 4, 2017, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Art and Artifacts of the Nineteenth Century

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

Sosaku-hanga: Twentieth-Century Japanese Creative Prints

January 10, 2017 - April 16, 2017, Center Gallery

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

January 10, 2017 - April 16, 2017, Becker Gallery

Art & Resolution, 1900 to Today

November 15, 2016 - April 16, 2017, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

December 6, 2016 - March 19, 2017, Markell Gallery

Robert Frank: Sideways

September 15, 2016 - January 29, 2017, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Contest! Challenge, Competition, and Combat in Ancient Art

April 28, 2015 - January 8, 2017, Walker Gallery

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

November 3, 2016 - December 31, 2016, Becker Gallery

Renaissance Rivalries: Painting and its Sister Arts

April 26, 2016 - November 27, 2016, Markell Gallery

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

June 25, 2016 - October 23, 2016, Media Gallery, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Becker Gallery

R. Luke DuBois – Now

March 31, 2016 - September 4, 2016, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery

Barbara Cooney: Drawing Biography

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

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

April 12, 2016 - June 5, 2016, Becker Gallery

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

November 5, 2015 - June 5, 2016, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Elise Ansel: Distant Mirrors

January 14, 2016 - April 17, 2016, Markell Gallery

Dissent in 1960s America: The Photography of Ken Thompson

January 26, 2016 - April 3, 2016, Becker Gallery

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

October 15, 2015 - March 6, 2016, Media Gallery, Halford Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Olive Pierce: Photographing a Maine Fishing Community

October 29, 2015 - January 17, 2016, Becker Gallery

Gilbert Stuart: From Boston to Brunswick

July 9, 2015 - January 3, 2016, Markell Gallery

Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960

June 27, 2015 - October 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)

June 27, 2015 - October 18, 2015, Media Gallery

A Mind of Winter: Photographs by Abelardo Morell

May 5, 2015 - September 27, 2015, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Peasants and Patricians: Art of the Nineteenth Century

April 2, 2015 - September 20, 2015, Boyd Gallery

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

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

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

January 15, 2015 - June 28, 2015, Markell Gallery

Mapping the Ancient Origins of Light

March 19, 2015 - June 7, 2015, Becker Gallery

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

March 5, 2015 - June 7, 2015, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne

March 14, 2015 - April 26, 2015, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Imago to Persona: Portraits from Antiquity

August 15, 2013 - April 12, 2015, Walker Gallery

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

January 22, 2015 - March 15, 2015, Becker Gallery

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

September 27, 2014 - March 8, 2015, Boyd Gallery

Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth

September 27, 2014 - March 1, 2015, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Alison de Vere: Psyche and Eros

October 2, 2014 - February 22, 2015, Rotunda

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

November 6, 2014 - February 8, 2015, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Focus Gallery

Revealing Mediterranean Women

October 30, 2014 - January 18, 2015, Becker Gallery

Lovers and Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance

January 24, 2014 - January 4, 2015, Markell Gallery

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

August 8, 2013 - January 4, 2015, Bowdoin Gallery

Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective

June 28, 2014 - October 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

June 28, 2014 - September 14, 2014, Zuckert Seminar Room

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

July 10, 2014 - September 14, 2014, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

American Artists at Work, 1840-1950

January 30, 2014 - July 6, 2014, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Fifty Years Later: The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting - A Digital Exhibition

November 11, 2014 - July 6, 2014, Virtual Exhibition

Frontier Visions: The American West in Image and Myth

May 8, 2014 - June 8, 2014, Zuckert Seminar Room

Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography

February 27, 2014 - June 1, 2014, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Becker Gallery

Surrealism in Motion

February 27, 2014 - June 1, 2014, Media Gallery

The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections

November 7, 2013 - June 1, 2014, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Sequencing Objects: Two Films

November 7, 2013 - February 24, 2014, Media Gallery

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

October 31, 2013 - February 9, 2014, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

Alfred Cheney Johnston: Portrait of a Lost Photographer

December 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014, Becker Gallery

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

August 8, 2013 - January 8, 2014, Markell Gallery

Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists

September 27, 2013 - January 5, 2014, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery

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

October 24, 2013 - December 8, 2013, Becker Gallery

Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea

June 29, 2013 - October 13, 2013, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Prélude à la mer

September 5, 2013 - October 13, 2013, Media Gallery

Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Art

July 26, 2013 - September 15, 2013, Boyd Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Katherine Bradford ~AUGUST~

June 29, 2013 - September 1, 2013, Other

Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture

March 26, 2013 - July 14, 2013, Markell Gallery, Boyd Gallery, Walker Gallery, Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Bowdoin Gallery

Unity and Fragmentation: Selections from the Permanent Collection

March 29, 2013 - June 2, 2013, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Transformative Gestures: Paintings of the Renaissance

March 12, 2013 - June 2, 2013, Becker Gallery

Simply Divine: Gods and Demigods in the Ancient Mediterranean

March 8, 2013 - June 2, 2013, Center Gallery

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

April 4, 2013 - June 2, 2013, Focus Gallery

Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker

November 15, 2012 - March 24, 2013, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Real/Ideal: Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Painting

January 15, 2013 - March 10, 2013, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

The Fixed Image: History and Process in American Photography

January 18, 2013 - March 10, 2013, Becker Gallery

Fantastic Stories: The Supernatural in Nineteenth-century Japanese Prints

November 9, 2012 - March 3, 2013, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery

Simply Divine: Gods and Demigods in the Ancient Mediterranean

July 31, 2012 - February 27, 2013, Walker Gallery

In Dialogue: Art from Bowdoin and Colgate Collections

August 23, 2012 - February 26, 2013, Boyd Gallery

The Renaissance & The Revival of Classical Antiquity

August 1, 2012 - February 24, 2013, Markell Gallery

In a New Light: American and European Masters

August 28, 2012 - February 24, 2013, Bowdoin Gallery

The Renaissance & The Revival of Classical Antiquity

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

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

October 30, 2012 - January 16, 2013, Becker Gallery

Michelangelo: Art and Afterlife

December 6, 2012 - December 23, 2012, Zuckert Seminar Room

Making a Presence: F. Holland Day in Artistic Photography

September 6, 2012 - December 23, 2012, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

William Wegman: Hello Nature

July 13, 2012 - October 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

July 13, 2012 - September 16, 2012, Zuckert Seminar Room

Winslow Homer to Eva Hesse: Watercolors from the Bowdoin Collection

July 27, 2012 - August 26, 2012, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Lesley Vance

April 12, 2012 - July 2, 2012, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Telephones: by Christian Marclay

February 16, 2012 - June 24, 2012, Media Gallery

Marvin Bileck and Emily Nelligan: On Great Cranberry Island

January 1, 2012 - June 24, 2012, Becker Gallery

Carrie Mae Weems: The Maddening Crowd

May 25, 2012 - June 17, 2012, Other

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

February 16, 2012 - June 3, 2012, Boyd Gallery

Insight Out - Exploring Gifts of Art from Private Collectors

January 24, 2012 - April 29, 2012, Becker Gallery, Focus Gallery

Intimations of Independence: The First 100 Years of American Portraiture

January 26, 2012 - April 12, 2012, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Building a College Collection: Select Recent Acquisitions

February 9, 2012 - April 1, 2012, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

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

October 28, 2011 - February 5, 2012, Center Gallery

After Atget: Todd Webb Photographs New York and Paris

October 28, 2011 - January 29, 2012, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

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

September 1, 2011 - January 8, 2012, Boyd Gallery

Edward Hopper's Maine

July 15, 2011 - October 16, 2011, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Hopper's Contemporaries: Artists in New England

June 16, 2011 - September 11, 2011, Zuckert Seminar Room

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

January 26, 2010 - July 11, 2011, Center Gallery, Focus Gallery

Recent Acquisitions: A Selection

May 24, 2011 - July 3, 2011, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

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

February 17, 2011 - June 26, 2011, Halford Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Modernism at Bowdoin: American Paintings, 1900-1940

January 12, 2011 - June 26, 2011, Boyd Gallery

Displaying Devotion

February 17, 2011 - June 19, 2011, Becker Gallery, Focus Gallery

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

February 8, 2011 - May 15, 2011, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

James Joyce and/on Film

March 29, 2011 - April 17, 2011, Media Gallery

Beholding and Being Awake to Mindfulness

November 23, 2010 - February 6, 2011, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Sit Down! Chairs from Six Centuries

October 21, 2010 - January 16, 2011, Center Gallery, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Raymond Pettibon's "Repeater Pencil"

October 21, 2010 - January 16, 2011, Media Gallery

American and European Paintings and Sculpture - Selections

July 27, 2010 - January 9, 2011, Boyd Gallery

Moving the Image: Women and the Camera

October 26, 2010 - November 28, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

The Art of the Deal

September 15, 2010 - October 24, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

William Wegman: Made in Maine

July 28, 2010 - October 10, 2010, Media Gallery

Maine as Muse

July 16, 2010 - October 3, 2010, Focus Gallery

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

July 22, 2010 - October 3, 2010, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Scratching the Surface: Master Prints from the Charles Pendexter Gift

June 16, 2010 - September 12, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Colonial Portraits

June 3, 2010 - September 3, 2010, Zuckert Seminar Room

Contemporary Masters

June 16, 2010 - August 21, 2010, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Methods for Modernism

April 8, 2010 - July 11, 2010, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Bowdoin Gallery Reinstallation

December 3, 2009 - July 3, 2010, Bowdoin Gallery

Grounded: Two Centuries of American Landscapes

August 14, 2009 - June 20, 2010, Boyd Gallery

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

April 20, 2010 - June 13, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Absent the Center: Work by Danny Jauregui

March 2, 2010 - June 6, 2010, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Manufactured Landscapes

March 12, 2010 - April 7, 2010, Media Gallery

Basquiat/Warhol

January 19, 2010 - April 4, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

In Focus: Photographs from the Permanent Collection

January 19, 2010 - March 14, 2010, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

Twentieth-Century Art: Highlights from the Collection

December 22, 2009 - February 21, 2010, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

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

November 17, 2009 - February 14, 2010, Media Gallery

For all the Saints

November 10, 2009 - January 10, 2010, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Collages by Romare Bearden

October 1, 2009 - January 5, 2010, Focus Gallery

From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden

October 1, 2009 - January 3, 2010, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Center Gallery

Visual Conversations: A Study Gallery for Art History 100

September 15, 2009 - December 20, 2009, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Japan and the World

October 6, 2009 - November 8, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Light and Shadow: The Aesthetics of German Expressionism

September 1, 2009 - October 4, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

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

June 30, 2009 - September 29, 2009, Media Gallery

Prints/Drawings & Drawings/Prints, 1500-1800

August 4, 2009 - September 20, 2009, Halford Gallery

Winslow Homer: At the Water's Edge

June 9, 2009 - September 13, 2009, Focus Gallery

Face Forward: Portraits from the American Collection

April 17, 2009 - September 13, 2009, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Drawn to Illustration

June 30, 2009 - August 30, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

ling-wen tsai: liminal landscapes

June 30, 2009 - August 29, 2009, Zuckert Seminar Room

James Bowdoin III: Pursuing Style in the Age of Independence

September 9, 2008 - August 16, 2009, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

Rodin: The Knowledge of a Thousand Gestures

January 29, 2009 - August 2, 2009, Rotunda, Bowdoin Gallery

New York Cool

April 17, 2009 - July 19, 2009, Boyd Gallery, Halford Gallery

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

April 9, 2009 - June 28, 2009, Center Gallery

Songdelay

April 7, 2009 - June 28, 2009, Media Gallery

Paintings for "Miss Rumphius" by Barbara Cooney

June 5, 2009 - June 28, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Stephen Hannock

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

Curating Across the Disciplines: Intersections Between Math and Art

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

Ink Tales

February 3, 2009 - May 10, 2009, Focus Gallery

Curating Across the Disciplines: The Frontier

March 3, 2009 - April 26, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age

January 22, 2009 - April 5, 2009, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Moby Dick by Guy Ben-Ner

January 29, 2009 - April 5, 2009, Media Gallery

The Art of Instruction-The Site of Inspiration

January 6, 2009 - April 5, 2009, Center Gallery

American Spirit: Highlights from the Collection

June 11, 2008 - March 11, 2009, Boyd Gallery

Curating Across the Disciplines: Drawing a Crowd

January 20, 2009 - March 1, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

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

June 24, 2008 - January 25, 2009, Focus Gallery

Lewis deSoto's Paranirvana/Self-Portrait

June 26, 2008 - January 22, 2009, Rotunda

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

November 18, 2008 - January 18, 2009, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Errant Behaviors: A Projection and Sound Installation by Anne Wilson

August 16, 2008 - January 18, 2009, Media Gallery

Parterre: An Installation by Lauren Fensterstock

October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009, Halford Gallery

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

October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Competing Natures: Edward Burtynsky's Views of China

October 22, 2008 - December 23, 2008, Center Gallery

Genesis and Its Interpreters

August 7, 2008 - November 16, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Landscape Photography: Politics and Poetics

July 1, 2008 - October 19, 2008, Center Gallery

Passages

September 2, 2008 - October 5, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Mixed Menu: Selected Acquisitions Since 2005

August 8, 2008 - September 21, 2008, Halford Gallery

Great Graphics: Drawings Since 1970

August 8, 2008 - September 21, 2008, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Maine Shorts: Early Silent Films from Northeast Historic Films

June 10, 2008 - September 9, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage

March 27, 2008 - July 27, 2008, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford Gallery

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

March 18, 2008 - June 22, 2008, Focus Gallery

Moving Landcapes: Short Films by Larry Gottheim and JJ Murphy

April 15, 2008 - June 8, 2008, Media Gallery

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

April 29, 2008 - June 1, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Great Graphics II: Prints from 1970 to the Present

February 6, 2008 - June 1, 2008, Center Gallery

Between the Lines: Trends in Early Modern Printmaking

May 1, 2008 - June 1, 2008, Zuckert Seminar Room

Lawn Boy Meets Valley Girl: Gender in the Suburbs

January 22, 2008 - March 2, 2008, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Becoming a (Woman) Artist

October 14, 2007 - November 25, 2007, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery

Visit the Seaside: Art as Inspiration

October 14, 2007 - November 25, 2007, Virtual Exhibition

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