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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).”
Late-night Harvard Square favorite Pinocchio’s Pizza.
Finding your bike is easy when it’s red. A street off Brattle Square is nearly all gray.
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.
Lecture Hall A. Stop for red.
