Thoughts on Bates College Museum of Art Collection Christa Cornell, March 2022 The Bates College Museum of Art selected works by Thomas Cornell that capture his intellectual interests and the broad techniques and media he used over 43 of his 50 years as an artist....
Carl Little, Review in Art New England, January/February 2021; Exhibition at the Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, Bangor Maine Since his death at 75 in 2012, Thomas Cornell has not had the kind of retrospective attention he deserves as a brilliant printmaker...
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...
The Manead Etchings, by Rose Marie Frick, Frick Gallery, 1990 Thomas Cornell’s meditation on Dionysos reflects his concern for the relationship between humanity and nature, including a response to feminism. The maneads were associates of Dionysos, women who left their...
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...
Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, June 1, 2007 Although there is little here (the National Academy members’ exhibition) that will surprise you, some works gain interest when read against the grain. Paintings like Thomas Cornell’s …would register as quirky-cool...
