Harvard Art Museums
WEBJust 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 ...
Browse Our Collections - Harvard Art Museums
WEBExplore 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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WEBThe 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 …
WEBMay 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.
Study of a Nude Child | Harvard Art Museums
WEB1943.765. Division. European and American Art. Contact. [email protected]. Permissions. THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes.
Harvard Art Museums Announce New Free Admission Policy for …
WEBJun 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.
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium - Harvard Art …
WEBJanuary 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 ...
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
WEBSep 16, 2022 · 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 ...
Understanding Paper: Structures, Watermarks, and a Conservator’s ...
WEBMay 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 ...
Understanding Ancient Chinese Vessels - Harvard Art Museums
WEBJun 29, 2016 · Earthenware. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Gift of Mrs. John Dane, 1941, 41–61–60/7161, 99320164, TL41522.9. Rarely seen prehistoric Chinese ceramic objects are now receiving plenty of attention as part of Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, an exhibition currently on …