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A red cap, T-shirt, and pair of shoes brighten the steps of Widener Library.
Photos by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
Harvard and crimson are synonymous. But all over campus and in nearby Harvard Square, brighter shades of red abound, too, in a Science Center mural, at bike racks and in traffic, on art museum walls, and in tourists’ garb.
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Blanche-Marie Blanc’s dress pops from Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1870 portrait at Harvard Art Museums. Glossy folded sheet aluminum lines a wall at the art museum, part of Charlotte Posenenske’s “Relief (Series B).”
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Late-night Harvard Square favorite Pinocchio’s Pizza.
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Finding your bike is easy when it’s red. A street off Brattle Square is nearly all gray.
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A gilded eagle perched in the organ loft of Memorial Church reflects tones from the red carpet. Shafts of sunlight illuminate prayer books at Memorial Church.
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Lecture Hall A. Stop for red.