Gallery Talks Scheduled at University Art Museums

Gallery talks take place at the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum (both at 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge) and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (485 Broadway, Cambridge). All talks are free to the public with the price of Art Museums' admission ($5.00; $4.00 senior citizens; $3.00 non-Harvard students; free under 18, on Saturday mornings, and to Harvard affiliates). The Art Museums are open free to the public on Saturday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to 12: 00 p.m. Hearing assists are available for gallery talks; arrangements should be made beforehand by phoning (617) 495-8286. To request a sign language interpreter, the public should call (617) 495-2397 using Massachusetts Telephone Relay Service 1-800-439-2370 three weeks in advance of the gallery talk. Gallery talks through August 1998 include the following:

Saturday, May 9, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum

New installation tour: Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay

with Colette Czapski Hemingway, Andrew W. Mellon Intern, Department of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts.

Sunday, May 10, 2:00 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum

Exhibition tour: Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museumsæ with Anneliese Harding, Art Museums Docent.

Sunday, May 17, 2:00 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Thematic tour: "German Romantic Drawings in the Time of Goethe and Beethoven"

with Anneliese Harding, Art Museums Docent.

Sunday, May 24, 2:00 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe

with Patrick Murphy, M.A. candidate in art history, Tufts University.

Saturday, May 16, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum

Exhibition tour: Abstractionæwith Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art.

Saturday, May 23, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum

Permanent collection tour: "The Roots of Abstraction"æwith Lana Branton, Art Museums docent.

Saturday, May 30, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Princes, Poets and Paladins: Indian and Islamic Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan

with Rochelle Kessler, acting assistant curator, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art.

Saturday, June 6, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe

with Anneliese Harding, Art Museums docent.

Sunday, June 7, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum

Exhibition tour: The John Witt Randall Collection: Seeking the True and the Beautiful

with Sarah Vure, 1996-97 Lynn and Philip A. Straus Intern, Print Department, and curator of the exhibition.

Saturday, June 13, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum

Exhibition tour: Brice Marden: Work Booksæwith Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art.

Sunday, June 14, 2:00 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum

Exhibition tour: Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums

with Anneliese Harding, Art Museums docent.

Saturday, June 27, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Princes, Poets and Paladins: Indian and Islamic Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan

with Mary McWilliams, associate curator, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art.

Sunday, June 28, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum

Exhibition tour: Brice Marden: Work Books

with Christine Mehring, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Sunday, July 12, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum

Exhibition tour: Brice Marden: Work Booksæwith Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art.

Saturday, July 18, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Princes, Poets and Paladins: Indian and Islamic Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan

with Mary McWilliams, associate curator, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art.

Sunday, July 19, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum

Exhibition tour: Brice Marden: Work Books

with Christine Mehring, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Saturday, July 25, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Princes, Poets and Paladins: Indian and Islamic Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan

with David Roxburgh, assistant professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Sunday, July 26, 2:00 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Princes, Poets and Paladins: Indian and Islamic Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan

with David Roxburgh, assistant professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Saturday, August 1, 11:30 a.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum

Exhibition tour: German Marks: Postwar Drawings and Prints Donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum through the German Art Dealers Association

with Emilie Norris, assistant curator, Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Sunday, August 2, 2:00 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum

Exhibition tour: German Marks: Postwar Drawings and Prints Donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum through the German Art Dealers Association

with Emilie Norris, assistant curator, Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Saturday, August 8, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Princes, Poets and Paladins: Indian and Islamic Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan

with Rochelle Kessler, acting assistant curator, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art.

Saturday, August 29, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Exhibition tour: Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs

with Marjorie B. Cohn, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints.

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The Harvard University Art Museums' facilities are wheelchair accessible. For general information, please call (617) 495-9400. For press information or photographs, please contact Kate McShea Ewen at (617) 495-2397. For more information on events, please contact the Friends, Fellows, and Special Programs Office at (617) 495-4544. World Wide Web: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu.

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The Harvard University Art Museums comprise three museums (Busch-Reisinger Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum), all located on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA, at the intersection of Quincy Street and Broadway, adjacent to Harvard Yard. The Art Museums are open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., and Sunday 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed holidays. Admission is $5.00; $4.00 for senior citizens; $3.00 for students; free under 18 and on Saturday mornings. For special tour reservations, please call (617) 496-8576. General tours are offered Monday through Friday from September through June. The Fogg tour is at 11:00 a.m.; the Busch-Reisinger tour is at 1:00 p.m.; and the Sackler is at 2:00 p.m.

The Harvard University Art Museums is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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