Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation) Tree of Life
Photograph of Islamic and Indian Gallery, 2008, featuring "Tree of Life" exhibition on back wall.
This installation celebrates the lively and creative manner in which traditionally trained Indian artists approached the depiction of vegetal imagery in a variety of media. Centered upon an 18th-century painted textile featuring the tree of life as its subject, this installation features examples ranging from luxurious metal works to export art and Company painting. The Tree of Life is the first installation in our ongoing Perspectives series, which invites artists and scholars from a variety of fields to respond to Islamic and Indian works in the Harvard Art Museum collections.
Organized by Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., former curator emeritus of Islamic and later Indian art, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum.