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Art Study Center Seminar: In the Flesh—The Artist’s Hand

Washington Allston, Study for Belshazzar’s Left Hand, for Belshazzar’s Feast, 1820–28. Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper. Loan from The Washington Allston Trust, 8.1955.208.

Seminar

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

This event is at capacity

Through a selection of works in different media from the European and American art collections of the Harvard Art Museums, this seminar will focus on the artist’s hand as a subject, a motif, and an agent of artistic creativity. Led by Ethan Lasser, head of the Division of European and American Art and the Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art, and Edouard Kopp, the Maida and George Abrams Associate Curator of Drawings.

The seminar will take place in the Art Study Center, Level 4.

Free admission, but capacity is limited to 15 and registration is recommended. To register, please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu.
 
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the program to allow sufficient time to sign in at the Art Study Center reception desk. Note that there is a wait list for this program; spots unclaimed by 11am will be released to those on the wait list. Please be prepared to present a photo ID.
 
Lockers are available on the Lower Level, Level 1, and Level 4 to check bags, coats, umbrellas, and any food or drink.