Opium Pipe Image

Opium pipe, China, Qing dynasty to Republican period, inscribed with cyclical date corresponding to 1868 or 1928. Water buffalo horn, metal, and ceramic. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.55.6. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Creature Features

Micahelangelo's “Goldsmith’s Designs, Including Two Ideas for an Oil Lamp”

Michelangelo's "Goldsmith’s Designs, Including Two Ideas for an Oil Lamp"

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, Goldsmith’s Designs, Including Two Ideas for an Oil Lamp, 1521. Black chalk on beige antique laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser, 1932.152.

Van Gogh Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin

Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, 1888. Oil on canvas.

Cadmium Yellow, Light

Cadmium yellow and other sunny shades populate a portion of the Forbes pigment collection.

Ultramarine and Friends

Hues of blues and greens, pictured here at the Harvard Art Museums.

rowland-pdf

One of Rowland’s works currently on view at The Harvard Art Museums in Gallery 1120.

Cecil B. DeMille photo

Konrad Klapheck

Visiting artist Konrad Klapheck. Photo: Schippert+Martin Photography.

George Abrams

George S. Abrams, newly appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. Photo by Steve Gilbert.

Race Course at Longchamp

language of pop

Corita Kent works on prints and teaches for LIFE magazine.

language of pop

A piece of artwork on display at the Harvard Art Museums' exhibit "Corita Kent and the Language of Pop."

Narayan Khandekar

Narayan Khandekar has been named the new director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums, replacing Henry Lie, who retired this past December.