Published 09-26-2024 by Bowdoin College Museum of Art

More Than 230 Photographs Donated to Bowdoin College Museum of Art by David and Gail Mixer

A color photograph of a person with a red pepper sticking out of their mouth like a tongue

Jeanne Dunning, Untitled with Tongue (detail), 1990, laminated cibachrome and frame. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Gift of David and Gail Mixer. Courtesy of the artist. © Jeanne Dunning, 1990

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) has received a major gift of 238 works of global photography, from daguerreotypes to Polaroids to computer-generated prints, including examples by more than forty artists whose work was not previously represented in the BCMA’s collection. A gift of David and Gail Mixer, the collection focuses on artists, self-portraits or portraits of other artists, including works by Roni Horn, Duane Michals, Meret Oppenheim, Alexander Rodchenko, Karin Sander, Hannah Wilke, and more.

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