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A selection of highlights from recent additions to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's collections, 2018-2020.

Showing 1 to 25 of 31 Records

Thomas, Mickalene

Tell Me What You're Thinking

2016
chromogenic print on paper
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2018.8
 
Yifei, Chen

Going Home (Suzhou)

1986
oil on canvas
Gift of Irving Isaacson in memory of Judith Magyar Isaacson
2018.9
 
Chin, Mel

Caged Corn

1992-2014
mixed media with hybrid cadmium accumulated dwarf corn (harvest sample 1991) on Redwood, galvanized steel
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.70.a-.b
 
Weems, Carrie Mae

American Icons: Untitled (Salt and Pepper Shakers)

1988-1989
silver gelatin print on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.378
 
Lissitzky, El

Proun 2B

1921
lithograph on velin paper
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2018.18
 
Horna, Kati

Untitled, from "Oda a la Necrofilia"

1962
vintage silver print on paper
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2019.29.2
 
Frazier, LaToya Ruby

Grandma Ruby and J.C. in Her Kitchen 2006

2006
gelatin silver print on paper
Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund
2019.3
 
Youmbi, Hervé

Two Faced (Double Visage), Faces of Mask (Visages de Masques) series

2015-2017
mixed media (plastic, animal fur, hair, cowrie shells, beads), paper, shipping crate, photograph, film
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2019.26.a.-.d
 
Gutierrez, Martine

Demons, Tlazoteotl 'Eater of Filth,' p92 from Indigenous Woman

2018
C-print mounted on Sintra, hand-painted artist frame
Museum Purchase, Greenacres Acquisition Fund
2019.43
 
Driskell, David C.

Masking Myself

1972
ink and marker on paper
Museum Purchase, Barbara Cooney Porter Fund
2019.23
 
O'Sullivan, Timothy H.

Ancient Ruins in the Canon de Chelle, New Mexico

1873
albumen print from wet collodion negative on original lithographed Wheeler Survey mount
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2019.29.3
 
The Master of the Von Groote

A Triptych: The Adoration of the Magi, The Nativity at Night, with the Annunciation to the Shepherds, and The Flight into Egypt

ca. 1515-1520
oil on panel, in an engaged frame
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund, Jane H. and Charles E. Parker, Jr. Art Acquisition Fund and Laura T. and John H. Halford, Jr. Art Acquisition Fund
2018.25
 
Frankenthaler, Helen

Monotype IV

1991
monotype from aluminum on paper
Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
2019.28.8
 
Lovell, Whitfield

Kin XLVI (Follie)

2011
Conte crayon drawing on paper, 3-D shooting gallery target
Museum Purchase, Greenacres Acquisition Fund and Collectors Collaborative
2019.44
 
Marcel Duchamp, Henri Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood

The Blind Man, No. 2

May 1917
publication
Museum Purchase in collaboration with the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives: Barbara Cooney Porter Fund, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund, Bowdoin College Museum of Art; The Philip Conway Beam Endowment Fund, Bowdoin College Museum of Art; and The Stones-Pickard Special Editions Book Fund, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library
2019.49.2
 
Artist Unidentified

Apulian Fish Plate

ca. 360 - 350 BCE
terracotta
Museum Purchase, Adela Wood Smith Trust
2018.1
 
Jaar, Alfredo

Angel

2007
c-print on mounted on plexiglas
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.178
 
Simpson, Lorna

Cloudscape

2004
single-channel video installation, black and white, sound, looped
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund in partnership with the New Media Arts Consortium, a collaboration of the art museums at Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Colby College, Middlebury College, Mount Holyoke College, and Skidmore College
2019.20
 
Iturbide, Graciela

Cementerio, Juchitán, Oaxaca

1988
gelatin silver print on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.166
 
Andrews, Benny

Mrs. Viola Andrews - My Mother

1974
oil with fabric collage on canvas
Gift of halley k harrisburg (’90) and Michael Rosenfeld
2018.39
 
Pousette-Dart, Richard

Untitled (Ramapo Freeze)

1976
graphite on paper
Gift of the Richard Pousette-Dart Estate
2018.44
 
Pindell, Howardena

Video Drawings: Tennis

1975
chromogenic print on paper
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2018.7
 
Spero, Nancy

El Salvador

1986
handprinting and printed collage on paper
Museum Purchase with Funds Donated Anonymously
2019.2
 
Molijn, Pieter de

Houses on a Village Street

n.d.
black chalk and gray wash within pen and black ink framing lines on paper
Museum Purchase with Funds contributed by George and Elaine Keyes and anonymously
2019.6
 
Gross, Mimi

Portrait of Yvonne Jacquette Burckhardt

1962-1963
oil crayon on paper
Museum Purchase, Greenacres Acquisition Fund
2019.16
 
Showing 1 to 25 of 31 Records