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40 Works for 40 Years: Celebrating the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum

October 16, 2023
Index Magazine

40 Works for 40 Years: Celebrating the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum

This colorful painting shows various shapes—some are white with black and red squiggly lines, and a few are in varying shades of solid blue, yellow, or red—against a largely white background. At the top of the painting is a band of beige and a thin line of aqua blue. A band of bluish-gray is at the bottom.
Willi Baumeister, German, Growth of the Crystals II, 1947/52. Oil with resin and putty on hardboard. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Partial gift of Felicitas Baumeister and Jochen Gutbrod and purchase through the generosity of the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2016.211. © Willi Baumeister/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Germany.

The Harvard Art Museums are grateful for the ongoing dedicated support of the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, who since 1983 have made possible many of the Busch-Reisinger’s curatorial fellowships, publications, public programs, and major acquisitions. We are delighted to present a selection of 40 works from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s collection that reflect 40 years of meaningful, generous support.

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