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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.
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Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution - Harvard Art Museums
January 20, 2024–May 5, 2024 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums. 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 ...
Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
Sep 22, 2007 · Imagine a stroll through ancient Athens among colorful statues and brightly decorated temples—in contrast with the colorless stone ruins that survive today. This exhibition presents full-size copies of Greek and Roman sculpture whose painted decoration, faded over the millennia, has been painstakingly reconstructed. The color reconstructions—based on close examination and scientific ...
Writing on the Wall | Index Magazine | Harvard Art Museums
It sounds pretty self-explanatory, but there are different terms used to refer to various sizes and formats of descriptive wall text. At the Harvard Art Museums, every object receives a tombstone. This macabre moniker is the traditional term used to refer to a bare-bones (ahem) label. The tombstone simply lists the object’s name and artist ...
Art Talk: Demonstrating Picasso’s Reduction Linocut Technique
Conservator and printmaker Christina Taylor demonstrates the reduction linocut printing technique pioneered by artist Pablo Picasso and master printer Hidalgo Arnéra to create the vibrant print Jacqueline with Glossy Hair (1962). Taking us into her printmaking studio, Taylor unveils the layers of creative revision, correction, and adjustment behind the finished print.
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a computer sees art. Using artificial intelligence, the Harvard Art Museums has collected 53,386,516 machine-generated descriptions and tags covering 378,372 images of artworks. Ranging from object recognition to face analysis that predicts gender, age, and emotion, the data reveals how computers interpret paintings, photographs, and sculptures.
Finding Its Footing: The Puzzles of an Ancient Amphora
This drawing shows objects excavated from a Sabine tomb in the late 19th century, including the amphora. After Paola Santoro, ed., Civiltà arcaica dei Sabini nella valle del Tevere (1977). This 1896 drawing suggests that the foot was partly preserved when the amphora was excavated. A Twin and a Tomb.
Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums
Experience the Harvard Art Museums’ historical collections through fresh eyes in a one-of-a kind installation by contemporary American sculptor Arlene Shechet. By presenting her recent work alongside historical German, Japanese, and Chinese examples, sculptor Arlene Shechet encourages us to look anew at works of porcelain and other objects from the …
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light - Harvard Art …
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 the Harvard Art Museums’ deep and diverse holdings.