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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.
Exhibitions - Harvard Art Museums
Current A Colloquium in the Visual Arts. August 31, 2024–January 5, 2025 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums The Harvard course A Colloquium in the Visual Arts (Humanities 20) is an introduction to the study of the humanities through major works of art and architecture from around the world: everything from ancient Greek vases and Japanese woodblock prints …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Nayikas : Love’s Beauty and Perils - Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums are fortunate to house luminous portraits of the Hindu heroines known as nayikas.Each figure’s attributes and emotions correspond to those of her absent lover, or nayaka (hero).Painted in the intricate Kangra style traditional to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, the works date to the 18th and 19th centuries.
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light - Harvard Art …
May 16, 2023 · A celebration of the diverse world of American watercolors from the late 19th through the 20th century, featuring works from the Harvard Art Museums’ collections. Edited by Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart Publication date: May 16, 2023 ISBN: 9780300269703 184 pages, 9.5 × 11 in. 154 color