Faceless portraits come to the Bowdoin Museum

Dont look for any faces in the exhibition This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. The show is named after Robert Rauschenbergs work This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so (1961), which is simply a telegram that declares its title. Although each of the around 60 works in the Bowdoin exhibition represents a specific individual, it does not include traditional portraiture, says Anne Collins Goodyear, the