Alexa McCarthy ’09 discusses blue paper in 16th and 17th century art – The Bowdoin Orient
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 21, 2023
Andrew YuanFEELING BLUE: Alexa McCarthy ’09 presents her research on blue paper in the art world.
On Monday afternoon, Alexa McCarthy ’09 returned to Bowdoin to speak about her research on handmade blue paper in the Baroque period in a talk sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA). Beginning in the mid-15th century in Amsterdam and Venice, artists began to produce drawings on paper dyed with indigo, introducing a new type of composition to the Baroque art world . . .
