Join us in person for a close look at the special exhibition White Shadows, with curator Lynette Roth and curatorial assistant Bridget Hinz.
Cornelis Vroom, Dutch, Landscape with a Road and a Fence, 1631. Brown ink over graphite on off-white antique laid paper. The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Robert M. Light, 2020.209.
Join exhibition curators Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson for an in-depth tour of Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape.
One of the Ten Kings of Hell, China, Ming dynasty, 15th–16th century. Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Claudia Brown and Emily Rabiner in memory of Donald N. Rabiner and in honor of Robert D. Mowry, 2002.57.
This talk examines how gender and otherness are represented in a 15th- to 16th-century Chinese painting that presents visions of the afterlife.
Lambert Doomer, Dutch, View of Rouen with Mont Sainte-Catherine, early 1670s. Brown ink, brown and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, and touches of white chalk. The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Harvard Class of 1954, 2011.516.
In this talk, two curators discuss what a 120-year-old Zeiss photographic laboratory microscope can tell us about science and art making.
Ella J.C. Hurd, American, Osmunda cinnamomea (Cinnamon fern), c. 1890–1900. Cyanotype. Courtesy of the Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, TL42353.2.
