Two staff members from our Division of Academic and Public Programs discuss how the museums foster museum literacy and a ...

In a lavish room with ornate tapestries, a young woman with fair skin and long light brown hair lies against cushions on the floor, with only a silk sheet wrapped around her legs. A hookah and a fan ...

Hatoum, a Palestinian born in Beirut, uses everyday objects and personal artifacts to examine the effects of exile and alienation. For this work she collected strands of her own hair and painstakingly ...

A watercolor showing a man kneeling on a low dirt hill facing the viewer. His left hand is pressed to his chest with the right arm extended out towards the ground. He has long dark hair and is clad in ...

From a circular base, the pitcher expands in a bulb shape, to a narrow neck, which then expands again into a smaller bulb shape with a small opening at the top. An upward curving handle on one side is ...

Cézanne painted this landscape when he was working alongside Camille Pissarro in the Oise valley, north of Paris. Their work from this period shares many of the same features; the houses at the center ...

A terracotta sculpture that is made of three round forms pointing to the right shown on a faded grey background. The two bottom forms are flat on the surface, the top form sticks up a bit and is ...

A rectangular marble relief portrays Hermes striding to the right in profile with only his right arm in view holding the infant Dionysos in front of him. The infant is wrapped in an ample folded ...

A growing metropolis in the early 20th century, Berlin attracted diverse ethnic groups, particularly in the realms of art and theater. When he visited, Nolde avidly depicted scenes of modern urban ...

[Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011. The Harvard Art ...

A woman sits in a washroom with her left shoulder toward the viewer, face turned away. She wears a dark corset and billowy skirt with legs folded inward. She combs her hair with her right hand while ...