Bowdoin College has been educating leaders for America and the world since the dawn of the American republic. Founded in 1794, Bowdoin is a highly selective college of approximately 1,750 students of distinction from across America and around the world.
Bowdoin’s curriculum offers a bold blueprint for liberal education designed to inspire you to become a world citizen and leader with acute sensitivity to the social and natural worlds.
Odilon Redon, The Tree, lithograph, 1892, gift of David P. Becker, '70
The Pierce Art Library opened in 1975 when the new Visual Arts Center was completed, and collections of books and an extensive picture file that had previously been housed in the Art Museum, formed the core of the early collection. Learn more »