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Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time [CANCELED]
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Photo: Rebecca Leopoldina Torres
Summer Spotlight Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham
Summer Spotlight Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, Reverse side of Two Lawyers, c. 1865. Oil on panel. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.186.
Gallery Talk: Marks, Stamps, and Tags—Visible Traces of Provenance in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition curator Casey Monahan will discuss the visible traces of ownership seen on works from the Solomon Collection, currently on view.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch as a Pilgrim, c. 1730. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.123.
Gallery Talk: Gray Area—Compassion and Companionship
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Dig deeper into the timeless tale of Saint Roch and his faithful dog.

After Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Why Born Enslaved!, original 1868, cast before 1972. Painted plaster. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.224.
Gallery Talk: Beneath the Surface of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved!
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a conversation about the restoration of a painted plaster version of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s sculpture Why Born Enslaved!

Film Screening: The Thief Collector
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street , Cambridge, MA
Please join us for a showing of the thrilling 2022 documentary The Thief Collector, about a 1985 art heist.

Matsumura Keibun 松村景文, Painted Lantern, first half 19th century. Wood frame; ink and color on silk. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, 2022.447.
Gallery Talk: Meaning Makers
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Yan Yang will discuss a new installation of East Asian art that focuses on symbolism and wordplay.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

László Moholy-Nagy, American, Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator), 1930. Aluminum, steel, nickel-plated brass, other metals, plastic, wood, and electric motor. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, BR56.5.
Gallery Talk: Activation of Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.

Edna Andrade, Octagon Study 78, 1970. Wax crayon over graphite on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Edna Wright Andrade Charitable Trust, 2025.161. © Estate of Edna Andrade, Courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Exhibition Tour: Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our exhibition Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static, led by Mitra Abbaspour, co-curator of the exhibition.

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Harvard Student After Hours
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Harvard students! Head to the museums to kick off the school year with art, fun, food, friends, and more.

Odilon Redon, Chimera, 1880–95. Charcoal and black crayon with smudging, scraping, and erasing on buff wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier, 2005.131.
Opening Lecture for Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black: Sticks, Stumps, and Fingers—Drawings Revealed
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
To celebrate our new exhibition, conservator Kimberly Schenck will give a talk on the abundant variety of black drawing media.

© Nic Lehoux
Art Study Center Seminar: Conversations on Conservation
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join members of the Straus Center team for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the techniques and materials used for treating works of art.

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Erwin Spuler, Untitled (As the Fire Fell from the Sky), c. 1945/6. Black chalk on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Busch-Reisinger Acquisition Fund, 2017.50.
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Crystalle Lacouture. Photo: Mel Taing; Odili Donald Odita. Photo: Emily Jayne Alexander; Dyani White Hawk. © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Geometry and Contemporary Art: Crystalle Lacouture, Odili Donald Odita, and Dyani White Hawk
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
Join artists Crystalle Lacouture, Odili Donald Odita, and Dyani White Hawk for an exploration of the role of geometry in their practices.

Edna Andrade, Untitled (Still Life 3), 1992. Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Edna Wright Andrade Charitable Trust, 2025.161. © Estate of Edna Andrade, Courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Exhibition Tour: Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our exhibition Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static, led by Madeline Murphy Turner, co-curator of the exhibition.

Lotte Laserstein, Triple Self-Portrait, c. 1928. Graphite on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Timotheus R. Pohl Acquisition Fund, 2025.113.
Gallery Talk: German Drawings from the Busch-Reisinger Museum in Sketch, Shade Smudge
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join curator Lynette Roth to discuss drawings from the Busch-Reisinger Museum that are on view in the exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard First-Year Fall Welcome
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Harvard first-year students are invited to an exclusive welcome event at the museums.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Edna Andrade, Untitled (Interchange Study), 1967. Metallic-colored pencil, graphite, and marker on white wove translucent paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Edna Wright Andrade Charitable Trust, 2025.158.4. © Estate of Edna Andrade, Courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Meet Me at the Museums: Sketching Understanding—Drawing as a Way of Thinking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Harvard philosophy lecturer Remei Capdevila Werning for a talk that explores how the act of drawing can be a powerful mode of thinking.

Exterior view, Adolphus Busch Hall, Busch-Reisinger Museum, undated. Photographs of the Harvard Art Museums (HC 22), folder 3.125. Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
A Stroll through History at the Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums
29 Kirkland Street and 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Curious about our historical spaces and hidden gems? Join us for a walking tour that includes three historical spaces at the museums.

Giulio Romano, Frieze of acanthus scroll with putti, animals, and birds, 16th century. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fogg Art Museum Richard Norton Memorial Fund, 1996.135.
Gallery Talk: Tracing Ownership through Collectors’ Marks
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Learn about the small stamps and inscriptions found on prints and drawings, called collectors’ marks.

Edna Andrade, Blue Flight, 1955. Watercolor and black ink on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Edna Wright Andrade Charitable Trust, 2025.142. © Estate of Edna Andrade, Courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Exhibition Tour: Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our exhibition Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static, led by Mitra Abbaspour, co-curator of the exhibition.

Leon Dabo, Beach Scene, October 9, 1931. Black crayon on cream tracing paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (through Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Rudkin), 1964.154.
Gallery Talk: Sketching Sensation
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join curator Horace Ballard for a talk on abstraction, atmosphere, and emotion in Leon Dabo’s drawing Beach Scene, made on this day in 1931.

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

William Michael Harnett, Profile Portrait of a Girl, 1881. Charcoal with touches of white chalk on buff wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, 1965.120.
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Théodore Géricault, Studies of a Cat, c. 1820–21. Graphite with touches of black chalk on tan wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.825.
Gallery Talk: Graphite Drawings and Preservation
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Conservation fellow Valeria Pesce will discuss the preservation considerations of graphite drawings in the exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge.

Georges Pierre Seurat, Woman Seated by an Easel, c. 1884–88. Conté crayon on beige wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.70.
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Charles Sheeler, Feline Felicity, 1934. Black crayon on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund, 1934.182.
Gallery Talk: Feline Felicity as Early American Modernism
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Curator Mitra Abbaspour will explore the avant-garde underpinnings of Charles Sheeler’s endearing drawing of a cat.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Edna Andrade, Octagon Study (B), 1970. Black ink, gray wash, metallic paint, and graphite on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Edna Wright Andrade Charitable Trust, 2025.160. © Estate of Edna Andrade, Courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Exhibition Tour: Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our exhibition Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static, led by Madeline Murphy Turner, co-curator of the exhibition.

Edna Andrade, Eight Studies Based on Navajo Designs—B (2 of 8), c. 1980. Colored pencil and graphite on cream wove translucent paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Edna Wright Andrade Charitable Trust, 2025.181. © Estate of Edna Andrade, Courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Meet Me at the Museums: Diné Weaving in Edna Andrade’s Eight Studies Based on Navajo Designs
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Stephanie Mach, curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, for a talk about Edna Andrade’s Navajo-inspired drawings.

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Max Beckmann, Seated Woman Shading Her Face, 1949. Charcoal and black chalk on off-white modern laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Rathbone, 1998.10.
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Gordon W. Gahan, American, Untitled [soldier with medical supplies on stretcher in front of helicopter examining water, Vietnam], 1967–68. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Robinson, 2007.184.1.158.
Museums Closed
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed for Veterans Day.

John Singer Sargent, Kneeling Male Nude with Drapery, c. 1890–1915. Charcoal with erasure and smudging on blue modern laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.9.6.
Gallery Talk: Drawing Materials and Techniques in Sketch, Shade, Smudge—A Conservator’s Perspective
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join conservator Abby Schleicher to discuss some of the drawing materials and techniques seen in works in the exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge.

Odilon Redon, Chimera, 1880–95. Charcoal on buff wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier, 2005.131.
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Engraved by William Home Lizars, British; colored by Robert Havell I, British; after John James Audubon, American, Great American Hen and Young, c. 1827. Hand-colored engraving and etching. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, M10308.
Museums Closed
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed for Thanksgiving.

Erwin Spuler, Untitled (As the Fire Fell from the Sky), c. 1945/6. Black chalk on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Busch-Reisinger Acquisition Fund, 2017.50.
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
Make your holiday season more festive at the Harvard Art Museums! Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, prizes, and more.

John Wilson, Violet, 1971. Charcoal and black and white crayon on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2024.151. © Estate of John Wilson.
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Fogg Interior Courtyard with Christmas Tree, 1962. Photographs of the Harvard Art Museums, 1927–2001 (HC 22), file 2.24 (6/9). Harvard Art Museums Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Museums Closed
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on Christmas Day.

Larry Fink, New Year’s Eve Party, American Legion, Bangor, January 1980, printed 1983. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous gift, 2013.105. © Larry Fink.
Museums Closed
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on New Year’s Day.

Edna Andrade, Pale Star, 1972. Acrylic on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Rosenblatt Fund for Post-War American Art, 2025.202. © Estate of Edna Andrade, Courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
Exhibition Tour: Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our exhibition Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static, led by Mitra Abbaspour, co-curator of the exhibition.

William Michael Harnett, Profile Portrait of a Girl, 1881. Charcoal with touches of white chalk on buff wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, 1965.120.
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!
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