Harvard Art Museums
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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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We’ve been named among the best college art museums in America! The Washington Post. Our new director, Sarah Ganz Blythe, recently spoke with host Jared Bowen on her vision for the museums. GBH / The Culture Show. Artist Wang Dongling recently performed a calligraphic work in the museums’ Calderwood Courtyard. The Harvard Gazette.
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.
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
See how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the Enlightenment era, encouraging individuals to follow their own reason when seeking to know more. What role did drawings and prints play during the Enlightenment era, from roughly 1720 to 1800? Dare to Know explores many nuances of this complex time—when political and cultural revolutions swept across Europe and ...
Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution - Harvard Art Museums
January 20, 2024–May 5, 2024 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums. 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 ...
Understanding Paper: Structures, Watermarks, and a Conservator’s ...
May 7, 2021 · There is more to paper than meets the eye. Paper conservation fellow Leonie Müller shares with Index readers the material qualities of paper and how its structures reveal the process of how it’s made.. As a paper conservator, I am fascinated by the structure of paper and how different it can look, feel, and even sound—it can be rough or smooth, glossy or matte; it can have varying shades ...
Floor Plan - Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums floor plan shows the layout of the museum and the location of galleries and pieces of the collection
Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection
Feb 14, 2020 · Painting Edo — the largest exhibition ever presented at the Harvard Art Museums — offers a window onto the supremely rich visual culture of Japan’s early modern era. Selected from the unparalleled collection of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, the more than 120 works in the exhibition connect visitors with a seminal moment in the history of Japan, as the country settled into an era of ...
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium - Harvard Art …
January 21, 2017–May 7, 2017 University Research Gallery, University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums. 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 ...