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Gallery Talk—Blue Women: To Draw or Not to Draw Dutch Female Nudes from Life?

Name: Gallery Talk—Blue Women: To Draw or Not to Draw Dutch Female Nudes from Life?
Start: 2023-05-18T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-05-18T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Harvard Art Museums

May 18, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Free

Join curatorial fellow Talitha Maria G. Schepers for an interactive talk that explores why 17th-century Dutch artists decided to draw female nudes from life, the conventions they broke while doing so, and why they used blue paper. The talk will focus on a recent installation of Dutch drawings in the 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Art Gallery (2300).

Details

Date:: May 18, 2023
Time:: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Cost:: Free
Event Category:: Event
Website:: https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/gallery-talk-blue-women-to-draw-or-not-to-draw-dutch-female-nudes-from-life?utm_source=artamerica&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=gallery+talk_blue+women&utm_id=Gallery+Talk%E2%80%94Blue+Women%3A+To+Draw+or+Not+to+Draw+Dutch+Female+Nudes+from+Life%3F

Organizer

: Harvard Art Museums
Email: john_connolly@harvard.edu
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Other

Curators: Talitha Maria G. Schepers, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art
Artwork Medium: Drawing

Venue

: Harvard Art Museums
: 32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 + Google Map
Phone: 6174959400