Past Exhibitions

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Past Exhibitions

American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum
April 8, 2006—June 25, 2006
Fogg Museum
This exhibition presents a survey of over 50 works drawn predominantly from the Fogg’s extraordinary collection of American art.
The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World
February 18, 2006—July 23, 2006
Arthur M. Sackler Museum

An exploration of the development of drawing as an independent artistic medium in Islamic art.

Frank Stella 1958
February 4, 2006—May 7, 2006
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
May 26, 2006—August 20, 2006
The Menil Collection, Houston
September 16, 2006—December 31, 2006
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus

Traveling Exhibition

This tightly focused exhibition investigates a single moment in the career of one of the nation’s most important postwar artists.

"To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap
December 17, 2005—March 12, 2006
Fogg Museum
This exhibition highlights the extraordinary generosity of Charles E. Dunlap, a Harvard graduate whose gifts and bequest of 18th- and early 19th-century drawings and paintings provided the Fogg Museum with some of its most celebrated works.
Quantum Grids: Sol LeWitt, Yayoi Kusama, and Cai Guo Qiang
October 15, 2005—April 16, 2006
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

Off-Site Exhibition

Quantum Grids takes the offer of two long-term loans by Sol LeWitt and Yayoi Kusama as an incentive to showcase a previously unexhibited painting by Cai Guo-Qiang and a newly acquired work by Fred Tomaselli.

Tempo! Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt
October 12, 2005—January 9, 2006
Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
March 11, 2006—May 21, 2006
Busch-Reisinger Museum
June 9, 2006—August 27, 2006
International Center of Photography, New York

Traveling Exhibition

This pioneering exhibition brings together for the first time all but a handful of Brandt’s visually dynamic and intriguing investigations of technology, gender roles, and entertainment culture.

Stratification: An Installation of Works since 1960
September 17, 2005—February 26, 2006
Busch-Reisinger Museum

Borrowing its title from one of the exhibited works, Stratification concentrates on seven key pieces from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s collection of contemporary art from German-speaking Europe.

Silver and Shawls: India, Europe, and the Colonial Art Market
August 27, 2005—January 29, 2006
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
This exhibition highlights the evolution of shawls and silver table wares produced in India during the colonial period, mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from The Carpenter Center Collection
August 6, 2005—October 30, 2005
Fogg Museum

This exhibition examines the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts’ photography collection of more than 28,000 prints, negatives, and related materials.

Degas at Harvard
August 1, 2005—November 27, 2005
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Works by the artist from across Harvard University’s collections, including those at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, and the Houghton Library, are united in order to examine and present this rich body of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs.

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