Harvard Art Museums
Just steps away from Harvard Square, the Harvard Art Museums welcome visitors from around the corner and around the world! Enjoy the many amenities that greet you upon entering the museums' expansive and beautifully restored Calderwood Courtyard on the first floor. From there, grab a coffee or snack in Jenny's Cafe or browse the many unique ...
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1991.512 Chariot Vessel with Two Cups, Two Openwork Wheels, and Openwork, Flaring Base. 2008.19: Bridge & Metropolitan Tower, Cleveland, Ohio. 1979.328: Stele with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha. 1992.289: Seated Bodhisattva Târâ in her “Green Manifestation”. 1992.289 Seated Bodhisattva Târâ in her “Green Manifestation”.
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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 ...
Writing on the Wall | Index Magazine | Harvard Art Museums
It sounds pretty self-explanatory, but there are different terms used to refer to various sizes and formats of descriptive wall text. At the Harvard Art Museums, every object receives a tombstone. This macabre moniker is the traditional term used to refer to a bare-bones (ahem) label. The tombstone simply lists the object’s name and artist ...
Art Talk: Demonstrating Picasso’s Reduction Linocut Technique
Conservator and printmaker Christina Taylor demonstrates the reduction linocut printing technique pioneered by artist Pablo Picasso and master printer Hidalgo Arnéra to create the vibrant print Jacqueline with Glossy Hair (1962). Taking us into her printmaking studio, Taylor unveils the layers of creative revision, correction, and adjustment behind the finished print.
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3 days ago — 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Harvard Art Museums. 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. We invite our Partners to take part in a rich discussion about contemporary works by Latinx and Latin American artists in the collections. Katharina Sieverding, Deutschland wird deutscher XLI/92, 1992. Pigment transfer on metal in a steel frame.
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 ...
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 ...