Harvard Art Museums

32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
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Opening September 12: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black. Discover how simple tools can be powerful vehicles for artistic expression. Enjoy drawings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, John Singer Sargent, and Odilon Redon, alongside 20th- and 21st-century artists such as Piet Mondrian, Lyonel Feininger, Diego Rivera, Richard Serra, John Wilson, Isabella Quintanilla, and Toyin Ojih Odutola, all of whom push their use of drawing media in new directions.

Georges Seurat, Woman Seated by an Easel, c. 1884–1888, Conté crayon on beige wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.70. At Harvard Art Museums.
Georges Seurat, Woman Seated by an Easel, c. 1884–1888, Conté crayon on beige wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.70. At Harvard Art Museums.