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Teaching gallery installations feature a select group of objects from the Harvard Art Museums’ collections that accompany undergraduate courses in Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture. Coordinated by Amy Brauer, Diane Heath Beever Curator of the Collection, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums.

The Past and the Present: British Art of the 19th Century
September 3–November 20, 2010
November 26, 2010–January 8, 2011
Floor 4
An image that represents a scene from the historical or mythological past is always more about the present in which it was made than about the past. The implications of this statement are explored in this installation that draws on the Harvard Art Museums’ impressive collection of works by 19th-century British artists such as William Blake, J. M. W. Turner, Frederic Leighton, and William Morris, and includes Pre-Raphaelites such as Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The two rotations complement a course being offered by David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University College London, and a 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard.

Related Event: British Art at Harvard. Gallery talk, October 21, 2010.

The Western Tradition: Art since the Renaissance
September 10–October 9, 2010
October 15–November 6, 2010
November 12, 2010–January 15, 2011
Floor 4
This popular course is taught by Professor Henri Zerner and other members of the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Three rotations of objects throughout the semester bring together diverse media and unusual groupings, including works that are seldom on display. The first rotation focuses on painting techniques and pictorial space; the second on sculpture, printmaking, and artistic process; and the third on photography and abstraction.

The installation is made possible by funding from the Gurel Student Exhibition Fund.