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Student Guide Tour: The Blue Tour, with Adam Sella

Four people stand around a large painting in a thick gold frame hanging on the wall in a gallery. The work, painted in various shades of blue, depicts a woman seated, dressed in flowing clothing, and holding a small child. To the right, on the wall, is a partial view of another thick gold frame.
Photo: Tim Correira Photography

Tour

Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour!

Adam Sella ’22 explores the color blue in three works of art: Utagawa Hiroshige’s print Yamato Province: Yoshino, a Thousand Cherry Trees at One Glance, Pablo Picasso’s Mother and Child from his Blue Period, and Josef Albers’s painting Homage to the Square: Against Deep Blue. Taking our Forbes Pigment Collection as a springboard, the tour considers blue’s foundation in pigments and optics as well as its power to stir up associations and emotions.

This free tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the following link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91568497856 (no pre-registration required).

The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each Student Guide and offer a unique, thematic view into the collections.

This program is supported by the Ho Family Student Guide Fund.

For instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom, click here; for general questions about Student Guide Tours, email am_register@harvard.edu.