This Week
This painting depicts three different full-length views of a Black woman standing with her arms relaxed at her side. She wears hoop earrings, wire-rimmed glasses, and a long, white gown with a slit and a halter neck. Positioned against a matte white background, she stands as if seen, from left to right, in profile, from the front, and from behind.

The date June 19 marks Juneteenth, the day celebrated across the United States as the end of chattel slavery in this country. This anniversary calls on us all to remember, learn, and reflect. It also encourages us to connect with one another about how the arts can help address continued racial inequality.

We are especially grateful to our Student Guides for their creativity and commitment in furthering these conversations while the museums have been closed during the pandemic. We invite you to check out their online tour this Saturday, which will explore the profound effect that Charles White had on his students David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall, and how the artists’ processes speak to larger social and political justice issues.

All virtual events are free and open to everyone. We look forward to seeing you online!

This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home:
This lithograph in black ink on cream paper presents a vertically aligned portrait of a young Black woman, showing her face framed by chin-length hair, her neck, and her upper shoulders. Her eyes are wide open. Her face appears illuminated by bright light from above.

In honor of Juneteenth, Harvard students and staff discuss a selection of  compelling images by Black artists. 
In this photomontage, Cecilia Zhou and Maeve Miller are smiling and standing superimposed over a gray-tinted image of the Calderwood Courtyard in the Harvard Art Museums. They are both pointing at three artworks suspended between them.

ONLINE TOUR

Charles White

Take an online tour with Maeve Miller and Cecilia Zhou on Saturday, June 19 and explore how Charles White’s example as a Black artist influenced David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall. 
A painting of a man in an orange suit, with a cat and a window in the background.

ART TALK

New Frames

Register today for this online Art Talk on Tuesday, June 29 and join curator Lynette Roth as she takes you behind the scenes of a recent project to reframe paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s collection.
In this photomontage, a smiling young woman in a blue dress appears to hold a bronze rectangular Chinese ritual food vessel, consisting of four legs and two handles. It is highly decorated on the outside and has a greenish color.

ONLINE TOUR

World in a Vessel

On Thursday, June 24, find out how three vessels bring us into the worlds that created them, focusing on a ritual food vessel made in China in the 11th or 10th century BCE; a stoneware storage jar by David Drake, an enslaved Black man in antebellum South Carolina; and a Bauhaus teapot designed by Wilhelm Wagenfeld in Germany in 1924–25.
Two smiling people sit on grass, with leaves and flowers worked into their hair.

ONLINE EVENT

Welcoming Summer

On Sunday, June 20, our friends at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture invite you to a virtual, bilingual (English-Spanish) Summer Solstice Celebration! The event features Harvard Art Museums’ very own photographer and master gardener Mary Kocol, who will explore the art of making botanical sun prints.
In this photomontage, Cecilia Zhou is smiling and is seated on a couch and leaning against a stone wall. Her right hand points up to a painting depicting a scene with several half-dressed figures and a sleepy cherub in a landscape setting.

ONLINE TOUR

LOL

Mark your calendar for the final Student Guide Tour of the season, on Saturday, June 26! Cecilia Zhou will recover the humor in a few serious works of art that may make you laugh out loud, including the 1640s painting The Drunken Silenus; the 18th-century scroll painting Puppies with Hotei and Jittoku; and a selection of prints based on 1930s photomontages by John Heartfield.

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Images: Header: Barkley L. Hendricks, American, October’s Gone . . . Goodnight, 1973. Oil and acrylic on linen canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, 2010.2. © Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; The Power of Portraits: Elizabeth Catlett, American and Mexican, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1948. Lithograph on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2006.76. © 2021 Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y.






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