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2 days ago · 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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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.
Harvard Art Museums
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.
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.
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 ...
Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade
Sep 15, 2023 · How did the sale of opium in China by Massachusetts merchants in the 19th century contribute to a growing appetite for Chinese art at Harvard at the start of the 20th century? Objects of Addiction explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. Opium and Chinese art, acquired through both legal and illicit means, had ...
Plan Your Visit - Harvard Art Museums
Admission is free to all visitors every day, made possible by a generous contribution from the Estate of David Rockefeller and support from the Office of the President at Harvard University. Explore over 50 galleries of art across three floors. Please check in at the Visitor Services desk upon arrival to allow us to share information about special exhibitions, gallery tours, programs, and ...
Home | AI Explorer | Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums is not alone in using AI to promote accessibility in art, other institutions are pursuing similar efforts. MoMA worked with the Google Arts and Culture Lab used artificial intelligence to connect older exhibit photos dating back to 1929 to their online collection, allowing greater public access to their exhibition history. ...
Understanding Ancient Chinese Vessels - Harvard Art Museums
Jun 29, 2016 · Rarely seen prehistoric Chinese ceramic objects are now receiving plenty of attention as part of Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, an exhibition currently on view in the Harvard Art Museums’ University Study Gallery.Comprised of about 60 objects, the exhibition complements a course taught by Rowan Flad, the John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology at Harvard University.