Gallery Talk: On Location: Drawing the Outdoors

Schedule

Tue Sep 22 2026 at 02:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC-04:00
Location

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 | Cambridge, MA

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Fee: This is a free event.
Accessibility accommodations: If you would like to request accommodations for your visit, please contact Visitor Services at [email protected] or 617-495-9400. For more details about accommodations at the museums, please see the Accessibility page.
Join former curatorial fellow Susanne Bartels for a gallery talk exploring the special exhibition On Location: Drawing the Outdoors. The talk will examine how 19th-century artists—such as Jean-François Millet, Vincent van Gogh, and Édouard Manet—responded to the far-reaching transformations of industrialization and urbanization reshaping both the land and those who inhabited it. Works on paper, including drawings and watercolors, reveal how artists captured an era in which the landscape was at once a site of hard physical toil and a destination for fashionable escape.
Led by:
Susanne Bartels, former Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow (2024–26), Division of European and American Art
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States

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