Tag: Winslow Homer

  • Nation & World

    American stories in watercolor

    Exhibit goes beyond idyllic landscapes to cramped apartment, 19th-century wardrobe malfunction, cancer-defying self-portraits.

    19 minutes
    "Cunard Street, Interior II" by Richard Foster Yarde.
  • Nation & World

    The artist as witness

    “Winslow Homer: Eyewitness,” currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums, traces how the artist’s experience as an observer tasked with accurately documenting the conflict helped shape his career and informed much of his later output.

    8 minutes
    Winslow Homer's Brush Harrow
  • Nation & World

    Summer in the city

    Get out your calendar and start planning — this summer brings music, comedy, plays, spoken word, movies, and more to the Boston area.

    14 minutes
    A visitor takes a photo of a painting on the wall at the Harvard Art Museum.
  • Nation & World

    Must-see guest for campus art lovers

    A portrait by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard helps highlight the loans that Harvard makes with other art institutions.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The magic and moonlight of Winslow Homer

    American artist Winslow Homer’s evocative oil painting “Summer Night,” depicting a scene along the Maine coast, is on loan to the Harvard Art Museums from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The local museums’ director Martha Tedeschi, a Homer scholar, discussed the artist and his work.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A generous vision for Harvard Art Museums

    Prior to arriving on campus as Harvard Art Museums director, Martha Tedeschi was the deputy director for art and research at the Art Institute of Chicago. She recently spoke with the Gazette about her new role.

    13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Winslow Homer’s Civil War

    Two Harvard experts moderate a gallery talk about Winslow Homer’s beginnings as a Civil War artist.

    4 minutes