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Article: Museum accessions.(Theophilus Wheeler Walker building)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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In 1891 Harriet and Sophia Walker commissioned Charles Follen McKim of the noted New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White to design a building to be used exclusively for the display and study of art at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Encyclopedic collectors and supporters of art education, the sisters named the building in honor of their uncle Theophilus Wheeler Walker, a successful Massachusetts merchant and entrepreneur and a first cousin of Bowdoin's fourth president, Leonard Woods. Inspired by Renaissance architecture, the building incorporated a loggia modeled on the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence and a dramatic central rotunda, the walls of which ...
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