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Gallery Talk: Paper Monuments—Commemorating Pasts and Constructing Futures

Christian von Mechel, Swiss, after Johann August Nahl the elder, German, The Tomb of Madame Langhans, 1786. Engraving on cream laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall, R8579.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Thea Goldring, a Ph.D. candidate in the history of art and architecture at Harvard University and a graduate student intern in the Division of European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, will give this gallery talk.

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.