Harvard Art Museums's Books

Examines the three Harvard art museum collections providing an overview of the collection and discusses technical information and historical interpretation.

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from January 21 through May 7, 2017.

This superb book presents 100 notable examples from the Harvard Art Museums’ distinguished collection of Dutch, Flemish, and Netherlandish drawings from the 16th to 18th century. Featuring such masters as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Rembrandt van Rijn, the volume showcases beautiful color illustrations accompanied by insightful commentary on prevalent styles and techniques. Genres that define this artistic period—landscape, scenes of everyday life, portraiture, and still life—are explored in detail. The book also presents the results of new conservation and technical study, including infrared analysis and scientific examinations of drawing materials. This revelatory new research has allowed previously illegible underdrawings and inscriptions in many of the artworks to surface for the first time, shedding light on longstanding mysteries of production and provenance.

This handsome book is the first to appear in a series of three volumes that will catalogue Harvard University's distinguished collection of American paintings. It documents nearly 500 paintings, watercolors, pastels, and stained-glass windows--many of which have never been published before--by artists born between 1826 and 1856. The book features works by Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, John La Farge, John Singer Sargent, J. A. M. Whistler, and Sarah Wyman Whitman, along with numerous less-known but important artists. Entries that draw on new research and scholarship accompany the works. Included is an introduction by Theodore Stebbins, Jr., outlining Harvard's collecting history and an essay by Virginia Raguin introducing Harvard's Memorial Hall and its twenty-one masterworks in stained glass. Also included are eighty-three works by Charles Herbert Moore, artist, educator, and the Fogg Art Museum's first director.

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Sept. 6-Dec. 10, 2011, and the Block Museum of Art, Jan. 17-Apr. 8, 2012.

In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art accompanies an exhibition organized by the Harvard Art Museums and shown at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum January 31-June 1, 2013.

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Harvard's Art Museums

Drawing

Drawing

Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt

Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt

American Paintings at Harvard

American Paintings at Harvard

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

In Harmony

In Harmony

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