A somber monochrome watercolor of mayhem and dissent at sea. The depiction of a sinking raft, with one furled and one billowing sail, stretches from one side of the drawing to the other. Great, curved ...

Hans Silvius von Aulock, Istanbul; sold [through Christie's, New York, June 13, 2000, no.556] to Harvard University Art Museums. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this ...

A group of young men in their bathing suits are swimming in a body of water located in the foreground of the scene. On the right-hand side of the foreground, one man is pulling another out of the ...

Not a formal portrait, but a study of a generic type and emotional expression, this painting dates to a period shortly after the artist left his native Leiden and settled in Amsterdam. It shows the ...

"Untitled (Frontenac Hotel court, Lido Key, Florida) (Joseph Janney Steinmetz) , 4.2002.10454,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Jun 27, 2024, https://hvrd ...

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A mans head and neck are shown, and his neck ends at the base in an uneven way which seems broken. He has a square face, a narrow mouth with full lips, a wide flat nose, and narrow round eyes which ...

Ezzat-Malek Soudavar, Geneva, Switzerland (by 2014), by descent; to her son Abolala Soudavar, Houston, Texas (2014), loan; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015. Note: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar (1913-2014) formed ...

The objects in this case present different visions of the female body. Statuette or vessel, funerary offering or object of worship, decorative feature or conscious work of art, they would have ...

"Untitled (Woman with baby) (Alice Neel) , M22623,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Jul 01, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/250433.

One of a pair of chūban (medium-sized) sheets of minogami (mulberry bark paper) treated with persimmon juice and cut using the "kiribori" (drill-carving), "dōgubori" (punch-carving), and "tsukibori" ...

This subject’s furrowed brow and close-cropped hair, rendered with simple chisel marks, place this portrait in the third century, a time of prolonged political upheaval, when Roman emperors were ...