Tag: Vincent van Gogh

  • Nation & World

    Looking back on 2017–18

    The Harvard Gazette takes a look back on 2017–18.

    22 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A different side of van Gogh

    The 1890 Vincent van Gogh work “Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after Millet)” is currently on loan to Harvard Art Museums.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Drawing wisdom from drawings

    A new exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums offers up a diverse sampling of the museums’ rich collection of drawings, while highlighting the creativity of Harvard’s classrooms.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Finding beauty in the bizarre

    The Harvard Art Museums exhibit “Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910,” on view through Aug. 14, borrows its name from the 1857 collection of symbolist poems about decadence and eroticism by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It also captures the essence of an artistic movement that sought to render the invisible visible through the use…

    3 minutes
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    A wall of color, a window to the past

    Curious visitors who turn left off the Harvard Art Museums’ elevators on the building’s fourth floor are greeted by the Forbes Pigment Collection, a floor-to-ceiling wall of color compiled from about 1910 to 1944 by the former director of the Fogg Museum.

    6 minutes