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Explore our collections: approximately 250,000 objects from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums. The vast collection contains objects spanning from c. 7000 BCE to 2014.
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Jan 17, 2011 · The Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
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Jan 25, 2025 · The Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light - Harvard Art …
May 20, 2023 · Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create marvelously diverse works over more than a century. Into the Light presents 100 compelling and rarely seen watercolors by well-known and historically underrepresented American artists selected from the Harvard Art Museums’ deep and diverse holdings.
Homage to the Square: Against Deep Blue | Harvard Art Museums
These two works (BR67.2 and BR63.28) from Albers’s series Homage to the Square exemplify his idea of art as a type of research. For each, Albers used the same basic format of nested squares, rendered in different media and sizes, to test various color combinations. He considered the series, which he returned to throughout his career, as a …
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium - Harvard Art …
Jan 21, 2017 · Drawing became modern in the 18th century, when it left the confines of the artist’s studio to enter an expanded field of discourse, culture, politics, and social life. This transformation is most evident in France, where drawing was significantly, and influentially, repositioned and reconceptualized. This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing from the 18th ...
Harvard Art Museums Announce New Free Admission Policy for …
Jun 23, 2023 · The Harvard Art Museums today announce a new free admission policy for all visitors, effective immediately. The new policy represents a significant expansion of free access to the museums’ collections, exhibitions, and research for public audiences.
Portrait of a Young Woman | Harvard Art Museums
This work exemplifies both portrait conventions and fashions of 1790s France. It displays the characteristics of Jacques-Louis David’s famous portraits of the decade: the sitter’s head is turned to confront the viewer, and the subject is presented in relief against an empty background. Her white muslin dress, a model inspired by antiquity, was ubiquitous in women’s wardrobes of the ...
Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution - Harvard Art Museums
Jan 20, 2024 · Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica was commissioned by the Spanish government for the 1937 Paris World’s Fair. It was exhibited in Josep Lluís Sert’s Spanish Pavilion, alongside Joan Miró’s The Reaper and other works. Completed in early summer 1937, the massive 11 × 25 foot painting addresses the devastating Fascist-era aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937.
George Washington (1732-1799) - Harvard Art Museums
George Washington (1732-1799) - Harvard Art Museums ... Vaughan Type