Martica Sawin, Essay for Gallery Exhibition, August 2013 Before his death last December Thomas Cornell had completed fifty years as a faculty member in the Bowdoin College Art Department. He arrived at Bowdoin in 1962 with a reputation based on his prodigious skill as...
Daniel Kany, Maine Sunday Telegram, September 15, 2013 These prints are postcards from the edge — like artifacts from expeditions into the unmappable id or broken shards of our collective memories. What makes this work so instantly compelling is the sheer...
Valuing Nature: The Imperative of Being, 2002 The inquiry, “Valuing Nature,” was first prompted by critique of an attempt to assess the natural world’s economic value. Later the inquiry was broadened so that “Valuing Nature” could be viewed from a variety of...
Venetian Painting as an Incarnation of Joyous Humanism and Secular Spirituality The Venetian Religious Paintings of Dionysos and Eros at the National Gallery of Art These are “terrible” times and it would be beautiful and even “spiritually” therapeutic for the New...
Poussin: Organic Classicism Foreword Now, in 2008, the Metropolitan Museum has decided to celebrate Poussin and Nature. The following article from fourteen years ago has some relevance to both this exhibition and our current understanding of how we evaluate nature....
