Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, ME) : The front elevation, left niche, showing bronze sculpture
- Creator:
- McKim, Mead, and White, 1879-1910
- Published/Created:
- Brunswick, Maine, United States
1894 - Date Depicted:
- ca. 1990's
1850 AD - 1899 AD - Materials:
- brick
bronze
stone - Notes:
- The original collection of European paintings, Old Master drawings, and family portraits given by James Bowdoin III and his family in 1811 and 1826 was housed in a sequence of different campus locations until The Walker Art Building was completed in 1894. Included on the National Register of Historic Places, the handsome structure was given to the College by Harriet and Sophia Walker in honor of their uncle Theophilus Walker, a Boston entrepreneur and businessman. The Walker sisters were encyclopedic collectors and supporters of art education; they selected the renowned architect Charles Follen McKim whose firm McKim, Mead and White also designed the Boston Public Library, Morgan Library in New York, and the Brooklyn Museum, among many other important commissions. A landmark building in the history of museum architecture in the United States, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art is one of the few remaining structures in which the architectural and decorative ideals of the late nineteenth century are so fully realized.
- Variant Titles:
- Walker Art Building
- Topics:
- Architecture -- United States -- 19th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Renaissance Revival
- Culture:
- American
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-MM-WG-D2
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
exhibition buildings: art museums (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors; Art museums; Education construction buildings; exhibition buildings; museums; art museums On either side are bronze statues of Sophocles and Demosthenes, copies by Sabatino de Angelis, a nineteenth century Neopolitan sculptor of
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Module One
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
ca. 1990's - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10110593
- PID:
- digcoll:1834830