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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Brunswick, Maine, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1894 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMcKim, Mead, and Whiteen_US
dc.date1894en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-10T17:52:34Z
dc.date.available2013-04-10T17:52:34Z
dc.date.issued1894en_US
dc.identifier205319en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 914en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/112945
dc.descriptionThe front elevation, left niche, detail showing the bracket; 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. Source: Bowdoin College [website]; http://www.bowdoin.edu (accessed 2/11/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; brick; bronzeen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectArt museumsen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectRenaissance Revivalen_US
dc.titleBowdoin College Museum of Arten_US
dc.title.alternativeWalker Art Buildingen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-MM-WG-C4en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeart museumen_US
dc.contributor.displayMcKim, Mead, and White (American architectural firm, 1879-1910)en_US


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