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Online Exhibitions & Research Presentations

"I Have a Son to Offer" - An Online Exhibition of American Civil War Artworks in Harvard Collections, in Honor of Drew Gilpin Faust

Social Museum Collection  This Web site provides a searchable database that makes available images and text information relating to more than 6000 Progressive Era photographs and graphical illustrations that survive from the collection of the Social Museum of Harvard University.

Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks - This site focuses on ten sketchbooks in the Fogg's collection, and and includes images of every page (front and back). It was mounted to accompany the exhibition Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks (August 1 – October 22, 2006).

The Boston Transit Collection at the Fogg Art Museum - The Boston Transit Collection is comprised of approximately 700 glass plate negatives and prints documenting the construction of the city's subway and elevated railway systems between 1895 and the beginning of World War II.

Degas at Harvard - This searchable web site is offered as an introduction to the holdings of works of art by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas in the collections of Harvard University. It also acts as a record of of the exhibition, Degas at Harvard, at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, August 1 ­ November 27, 2005.
Ben Shahn's self portrait Ben Shahn at Harvard A database of images and textual information relating to American artist Ben Shahn (1899-1969)
Sargent's Venice Sargent at Harvard A database of images and textual information relating to American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Provenance image Provenance Research - A report on the Museums' efforts to investigate the ownership histories of works in the collection, with a searchable list of objects that may have been in Europe between 1933 and 1945.

Closely Focused, Intensely Felt: Selections from the Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art

Calligraphy from the Islamic World

Where Traditions Meet: Painting in India from the 15th through the 17th Centuries

Extra Ordinary Every Day: The Bauhaus at the Busch-Reisinger
available until 31 December 2008
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Sargent Murals The Sargent Murals at the Boston Public Library
Collections Online Collections Online
Mondrian Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings
Dürer's imprint Dürer's Passions
Calligraphy Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanc1 Museum, Sabanc1 University, Istanbul
Grand Legacy A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire
Investgating the Renaissance Investigating the Renaissance
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