WINTER/SPRING 1998-1999 GALLERY TALKS AT HARVARD ART MUSEUMS

Released: November 30, 1998

Gallery talks take place at the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum (both at 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge) and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (485 Broadway, Cambridge). All talks are free to the public with the price of Art Museums' admission ($5.00; $4.00 senior citizens; $3.00 non-Harvard students; free under 18, on Wednesdays, Saturday mornings, and to Harvard affiliates). Hearing assists are available for gallery talks; arrangements should be made beforehand by phoning (617) 495-8286. To request a sign language interpreter, the public should call (617) 495-2397 using Massachusetts Telephone Relay Service 1-800-439-2370 three weeks in advance of the gallery talk. Gallery talks through April 1999 include the following:

Saturday, December 5, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Prints and Privileges: Regulating the Printed Image in Sixteenth-Century Italy
with Irene Cervantes, concentrator in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard class of '99 and participant in the curator Lisa Pon's Junior Tutorial linked with the exhibition.

Saturday December 5, 2:00 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Exhibition tour: A Laboratory of Modernity: Image and Society in the Weimar Republic
with Sarah Miller, Werner and Maren Otto Curatorial Intern, Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Sunday, December 6, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings
with Edward Saywell, John S. Newberry Research Assistant, Department of Drawings and exhibition curator.

Saturday, December 12, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Prints and Privileges: Regulating the Printed Image in Sixteenth-Century Italy
with Alexis Goodman, concentrator in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard class of '99 and participant in the curator Lisa Pon's Junior Tutorial linked with the exhibition.

Saturday, December 12, 2:00 p.m. Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Mastery and Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Jeffrey E. Horvitz Research Curator, Department of Drawings.

Sunday, December 13, 2:00 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Symbol and Substance: The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes
with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator of Japanese art.

Sunday, December 20, 2:00 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Exhibition tour: A Laboratory of Modernity: Image and Society in the Weimar Republic
with Tawney Becker, curatorial assistant, Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Saturday, January 9, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Mastery and Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
James Harper, 1998-1999 Lynn and Philip A. Straus Intern, Department of Drawings.

Sunday, January 10, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art, and Jacqueline van Rhyn, curatorial assistant, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Saturday, January 23, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Mastery and Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Ann Leonard, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, and graduate student assistant, Department of Drawings.

Saturday, January 23, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interactions
Deborah Martin Kao, Charles C. Cunningham Sr. Associate Curotor of Photographs.

Saturday, January 30, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Divinely Inspired: Images of Mystics and Mendicants
Rochelle Kessler, assistant curator of Islamic and later Indian art.

Saturday, February 6, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum
Permanent collection tour: "Pre-Raphaelite Paintings in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum"
Sarah Kianovsky, assistant curator, Department of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts.

Saturday, February 6, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interactions
Jenna Webster, research assistant, Department of Photographs.

Saturday, February 20, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: American Paintings after 1950
Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art, and Jacqueline van Rhyn, curatorial assistant, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Saturday, February 20, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interactions
Deborah Martin Kao, Charles C. Cunningham Sr. Associate Curotor of Photographs.

Saturday, February 27, 11:30 a.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Exhibition tour: Wols Photographs
Graham Bader, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Sunday, February 28, 2:00 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Divinely Inspired: Images of Mystics and Mendicants
Rochelle Kessler, assistant curator of Islamic and later Indian art.

Saturday, March 6, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interactions
Jenna Webster, reserach assistant, Department of Photographs.

Sunday, March 7, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: American Paintings after 1950
Lana Branton, Art Museums docent.

Saturday, March 13, 11:30 a.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Exhibition tour: Wols Photographs
Christine Mehring, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Sunday, March 14, 1:30 p.m., Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street
Permanent collection tour: "A Return Visit to the Medieval Halls and Sculptures of the Old Busch-Reisinger Museum"
Anneliese Harding, Art Museums docent.

Sunday, March 14, 2:00 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Exhibition tour: Wols Photographs
Christine Mehring, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Saturday, March 20, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interactions
Deborah Martin Kao, Charles C. Cunningham Sr. Associate Curator of Photographs.

Sunday, March 28, 2:00 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955
Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art, and Linda Norden, Barbara Lee Associate Curator of Contemporary Art.

Saturday, April 3, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interactions
Jenna Webster, research assistant, Department of Photographs.

Saturday, April 10, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum
Exhibition tour: American Paintings after 1950
Lana Branton, Art Museums docent.

Sunday, April 11, 1:30 p.m., Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street
Permanent collection tour: "A Return Visit to the Medieval Halls and Sculptures of the Old Busch-Reisinger Museum"
Anneliese Harding, Art Museums docent.

Saturday, April 17, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955
Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art, and Christine Mehring, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Sunday, April 18, 2:00 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Exhibition tour: Wols Photographs
Graham Bader, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Saturday, April 24, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Exhibition tour: Courts and Countryside: Islamic Painting of the Fourteeth to the Seventeenth Century Mary Anderson McWilliams, associate curator of Islamic and later Indian Art.

Sunday, April 25, 2:00 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Permanent collection tour: "Hidden Beauties: Revisiting the Pre-Raphaelites"
Gail Weinberg, independent scholar.

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The Harvard University Art Museums comprise three museums (Busch-Reisinger Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum), all located on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA, at the intersection of Quincy Street and Broadway, adjacent to Harvard Yard. The Art Museums are open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., and Sunday 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed holidays. Admission is $5.00; $4.00 for senior citizens; $3.00 for students; free under 18 and to all on Saturday mornings and all day on Wednesdays. For special tour reservations, please call (617) 496-8576. General tours are offered Monday through Friday from September through June; Wednesdays only in July and August. The Fogg tour is at 11:00 a.m.; the Busch-Reisinger tour is at 1:00 p.m.; and the Sackler is at 2:00 p.m. The Harvard University Art Museums is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.