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Title	Walker Art Gallery
Alternate Title	Bowdoin College Art Gallery
View	The front elevation, side view, showing the loggia and stairs
Notes	cultural
Work Type	museum
Style/Period	Neoclassical Beaux-Arts
Creator Name	McKim, Mead, and White
Creator Nationality	American
School of Creator	Neoclassical
Date.Creator Birth	1879
Date.Creator Death	1910
Major Design Aspects	elegant symmetrical
Elements & Spatial Types	loggia dome lion
Climate Type	cold temperate
Country	United States
City	Brunswick
State/Province	Maine
Alternate Place Names	Bowdoin College
Architectural Material	stone, brick
Art Medium	bronze
Structural System	bearing masonry
Patron	Bowdoin College
Dates	1894
Century	19th century
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision Inc.
Subject Information	The Bowdoin College Museum of Art's permanent collection goes back to 1811, making it the earliest collegiate art collection in the United States. The bequest of James Bowdoin 3rd (1752-1811), who served as Thomas Jefferson's minister to France and Spain in the early 1800's (and for whose statesman father the college was named), bestowed 70 paintings and 141 drawings on this small but choice college. But it took almost another century before art crept into the Bowdoin curriculum, and the gift was fully appreciated. *** In the Walker Art Building opened on campus, given by two sisters, Harriet and Sophia Walker. Wishing to honor their uncle, Theophilus Wheeler Walker, a Boston businessman who had helped establish a modest at the college, they commissioned the prestigious firm of McKim, Mead & White to design the new building. The firm did a splendid, all-out Beaux-Arts job, including a copper dome and the placing of four murals by prominent artists of the period in the rotunda.'http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/images/gallery/walker/walker.shtml
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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