EditorialFrom left: Nia Bowdoin, Conner Thompson and Taylor May work in the kitchen at Ingredion in Bridgewater, N.J., Aug. 23, 2022. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Nia Bowdoin, Conner Thompson and Taylor May work in the kitchen at Ingredion in Bridgewater, N.J., Aug. 23, 2022. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times)
EditorialAttributed to the Bowdoin Painter, Terracotta fragment of a kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup), Greek, Attic, Early Classical, Date 480470 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure or bilingual, Vases.
EditorialAttributed to the Bowdoin-Eye Painter, Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), Greek, Attic, Archaic, Date 520-510 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, Vases.
EditorialAttributed to the Bowdoin-Eye Painter, Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup), Greek, Attic, Archaic, Date 520-510 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, Vases.
EditorialGilbert Stuart, Portrait of Mrs. James Bowdoin III (n?e Sarah Bowdoin), ca. 1805, oil on canvas, 30 1/8 in. x 25 3/16 in. (76.52 cm x 63.98 cm), Gilbert Stuart likely painted this portrait of Sarah Bowdoin prior to her departure with her husband on his...
EditorialCharles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-M?min, Portrait of the Honorable Silas Lee, ca. 1799, graphite, white chalk and charcoal on pink laid paper, 21 1/2 in. x 15 in. (54.61 cm x 38.1 cm), Saint-Memin emigrated from Paris to escape the French Revolu...
EditorialElihu Vedder, Initial Study for Panel for Bowdoin College Museum Mural, ca. 1893, gouache, crayon, and gold on brown wove paper, 8 9/16 in. x 14 1/8 in. (21.75 cm x 35.88 cm).
EditorialEastman Johnson, Portrait of Charles Appleton Packard, 1856, charoal and pastel, with traces of graphite on brown wove paper, 24 1/2 in. x 18 7/16 in. (62.23 cm x 46.83 cm), A Maine native, Eastman Johnson excelled in portraiture. He left for Europe in...
EditorialLouis-L?opold Boilly, Portrait of Sarah Bowdoin, ca. 1806-1808, oil on canvas, 8 9/16 in. x 6 9/16 in. (21.75 cm x 16.67 cm), This winsome, wistful portrait of the wife of James Bowdoin III has an intriguing history. Painted while the Bowdoins were on ...
EditorialGiulio Romano, Two Women, 1492-1546, pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of black chalk on paper, 7 1/16 in. x 5 13/16 in. (18 cm. x 14.7 cm.), This large landscape from James Bowdoin III's collection reflects the artist's firsthand experience of the...
EditorialJohn Singleton Copley, Portrait of Thomas Flucker, ca. 1770-1771, oil on canvas, 28 1/16 in. x 24 1/4 in. (71.28 cm x 61.6 cm), This painting is considered the most physically and psychologically striking colonial portrait at Bowdoin, Thomas Flucker wa...
EditorialCharles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-M?min, Portrait of Mrs. Silas Lee (Temperance Hedge Lee), ca. 1799, charcoal, black crayon, traces of graphite on pink laid paper, 20 5/8 in. x 15 1/8 in. (52.39 cm x 38.42 cm), Saint-Memin emigrated from Paris ...
EditorialChristian Gullager, Portrait of Governor James Bowdoin II ('Version A'), ca. 1791, oil on panel, 10 13/16 in. x 8 5/8 in. (27.46 cm x 21.91 cm).
EditorialFrancesco Vanni, The Holy Family with Saint John (recto), 1584-1610, red chalk over black chalk on paper, 7 in. x 5 1/4 in. (17.78 cm. x 13.4 cm.), This double-sided drawing experiments with different compositions of one of the most beloved figurative ...
EditorialJohn Smibert, The Continence of Scipio, ca. 1719-1722, oil on canvas, 45 3/4 in. x 62 5/8 in. (116.21 cm x 159.07 cm), Smibert's painting is a copy of a 1640 painting by the revered French painter Nicolas Poussin. Its subject derives from Roman history...
EditorialChristian Gullager, Portrait of Governor James Bowdoin II ('Version B'), ca. 1791, oil on panel, 10 5/8 in. x 8 11/16 in. (26.99 cm x 22.07 cm).
EditorialUnknown Artist, Design for a Circular Dish, 1500-1600, pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper, 6 1/4 in. x 6 1/4 in. (15.88 cm. x 15.88 cm.), This sheet is one of three in James Bowdoin III's bequest that is inscribed with the name of John Smibert a...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 480 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground, 9 5/16 x 3 1/4 in. (23.7 x 8.3 cm), Vases, Dionysos (god of wine) with a satyr and goat. The decoration on the body is executed in a combina...
EditorialThe campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, on March 13, 2020, after the school moved to online classes for the rest of the semester. (Sarah Rice/The New York Times)
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 480 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground, 9 5/16 x 3 1/4 in. (23.7 x 8.3 cm), Vases, Dionysos (god of wine) with a satyr and goat. The decoration on the body is executed in a combina...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 480 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground, 9 5/16 x 3 1/4 in. (23.7 x 8.3 cm), Vases, Dionysos (god of wine) with a satyr and goat. The decoration on the body is executed in a combina...