Into the White — Heuer '94 Bowdoin Alumni Broadly defining “intellectuals” to encompass

Broadly defining “intellectuals” to encompass doctors

Alice will learn to drive

Michael Kolster

Photography: Smithsonian American Art Museum

The featured paintings

Into the White — Heuer '94 Bowdoin Alumni Broadly defining “intellectuals” to encompassBy Christopher Heuer, Class of 1994 European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally abstract, the far North a different kind of terra