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Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art
$45.00
Ellen Y. Tani with an essay by Amanda Cachia and contributions by Joseph Grigely, Shaun Leonardo, Tony Lewis, Nyeema Morgan and Gala Porras-Kim Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from March 1 through June 3, 2018. Featuring sculptural, sound-based, and language-based artworks...
Constructing Revolution Poster
$20.00
Poster announces the major exhibition Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars on view from September 23, 2017 through February 11, 2018 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The poster illustrates For the Proletarian Park of Culture and Leisure, 1932, by Vera Adamovna Gitsevich, Russian, 1897-1976, one of ...
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum 50th Anniversary Tote Bag
$19.67
Celebrate the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s 50th anniversary with this signature tote bag, made from 100% organic cotton. Rugged rope-and-grommet handles add a charming nautical touch. The museum’s logo is featured on the front of the tote in two shades of icy Arctic blue, along with the commemorative dates of 1967-2017. The tote expands 5.5 i...
The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe
$50.00
By Stephen Perkinson With contributions from Naomi Speakman, Katherine Baker, Elizabeth Morrison, and Emma Solberg. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 24 through November 26, 2017. We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic...
Why Draw? Poster
Why Draw? Poster
$20.00
Poster depicting Moosehorn, 1997, watercolor by Neil Welliver, announces the major exhibition Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College, on view from May 3 through September 3, 2017. Suitable for framing. 20 w x 30 h inches.
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College
$60.00
Presenting historic and contemporary selections from one of the nation’s oldest collections of drawings, this richly illustrated and highly engaging volume explores the significance and pleasures found in tracing movements of the hand on paper by asking the question “Why Draw?” An intimate art form, drawing offers a direct connection to one’s im...
Miss Rumphius Notecard Collection
$15.00
A selection of four details reproduced from Barbara Cooney’s original paintings for Miss Rumphius. Cooney spent summers in Maine beginning at a young age and moved here full-time in the 1980s. Awarded the Caldecott Medal twice for distinguished children’s books, Cooney received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College in 1996. She donated the pai...
This Is a Portrait if I Say So Poster
$20.00
Poster depicting Für K. v. F, lithograph, 1990, by Robert Indiana, announces the major summer exhibition for 2016 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Für K. v. is in the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, an anonymous gift and purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund. Suitable for framing. 20 w x 30 h inches.
This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today
$60.00
Anne Collins Goodyear, Jonathan Frederick Walz, and Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo, with a contribution by Dorinda Evans The sumptuously illustrated catalogue explores portraiture as a site of artistic experimentation, in works that shift the genre from one based on mimesis to one stressing symbolic associations between artists and subjects. Featur...
Peary & Henson Plush Doll Set
$35.00
An adorable set of unique plush soft sculpture dolls made exclusively for the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, featuring Arctic explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson. Suitable for ages 2 years and up. Take your dolls traveling and send pictures of them to the Museum staff for posting on the website! View the gallery.
Matthew Henson Doll
Matthew Henson Doll
$18.00
This unique soft sculpture doll features African-American Arctic explorer Matthew A. Henson, an indispensable member of Robert E. Peary’s Arctic expeditions. In 1909, Henson, Peary, and four Inuit were the first men to reach the North Pole. Initially, Henson was not recognized for his achievement. In the 1950s he received the accolades and meda...
Limited Edition Abelardo Morell Print
Limited Edition Abelardo Morell Print
$2,500.00
We are pleased to offer this limited edition photograph, entitled "Camera Obscura: The Campus Quad inside the Rotunda of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, July 30th, 2015," by esteemed photographer Abelardo Morell '71 H'97. Created in 2015, this image shows a projection of the Bowdoin quad cast onto a wall of the Museum of Art’s rotunda using ...
Poster for Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960
$20.00
Poster depicting the tempera painting Night Hauling by Andrew Wyeth announces the major summer exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Suitable for framing. 30 x 23-1/4 inches. Night Hauling is in the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, given in 1985 by Mrs. Ernestine K. Smith, in memory of her husband, Burwell B. Smith. R...
Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960
$60.00
Joachim Homann, with contributions from Linda Docherty, Avis Berman, Daniel Bosch, Alexandere Nemerov, and Helene Valance. Spanning a century from the introduction of electric light to the dawn of the Space Age, this first major survey of American night scenes by artists such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and Joseph Cornell p...
Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas
$29.95
Edited by Sarah J. Montross Overview From the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This...
Imagination Takes Shape: Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection
$30.00
By The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center In 2010 the exhibition Imagination Takes Shape: Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection introduced this remarkable collection to museum visitors, displaying a carefully selected sample of 86 of the approximately 600 works collected by the Tolls over nearly 50 years. This...
Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective Poster
$15.00
Designed by JRP | Ringier, Switzerland, with the approval of the artist, Richard Tuttle, this poster celebrates the major exhibition Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The exhibition is on view from June 28 through October 19, 2014. 20 x 30 inches.
Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective
$80.00
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 28 through October 19, 2014 Since the 1970s, in collaboration with renowned printers and publishers, Richard Tuttle has created a diverse printed oeuvre. In sensitively exploiting the unique possibilities of printmaki...
Maurice Prendergast Horizontal Poster
$20.00
A poster for the exhibition Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea, features the painting St. Malo, No. 2 and measures 30” x 23.25”
Maurice Prendergast Vertical Poster
$20.00
A poster for the exhibition Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art features the painting The Stony Beach, Ogunquit and measures 20” x 30”
Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea
$55.00
Joachim Homann, with contributions by Trevor J. Fairbrother, Joachim Homann, Nancy Mowll Mathews, Joseph J. Rishel, and Richard J.Wattenmaker. This selection of works in a variety of media focuses on Maurice Prendergast’s creative process as he imaginatively and innovatively captured the look and feel of coastlines from New England to France and...
William Wegman: Hello Nature Poster
$20.00
A poster for the exhibition, William Wegman: Hello Nature at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 2012 20” x 30”
Hello Nature - William Wegman Exhibition Catalogue
$34.95
Hello Nature How to Draw, Paint, Cook, and Find Your Way William Wegman, with contributions by Kevin Salatino, Padgett Powell, and Diana Tuite. This stunning book takes a fresh look at the work of renowned artist William Wegman. Best known for his photography and videos, particularly of his dogs, Wegman is also an accomplished painter, draf...
Adult's Arctic Museum Tee
Adult's Arctic Museum Tee
$18.00
Our popular Arctic Museum t-shirt features a serene sitting polar bear and reads "The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick Maine." 100% cotton.