Gallery Talk: Sketching Sensation

Schedule

Thu Oct 09 2025 at 12:30 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

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

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Join curator of American art Horace Ballard for a gallery rumination around ideas of abstraction, atmosphere, and emotion in Leon Dabo’s Beach Scene, a drawing made exactly 112 years ago today!
This talk is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black, on view from September 12, 2025 to January 18, 2026.
Led by:
Horace Ballard, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art, Division of European and American Art
Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the gallery talk. Space is limited, and talks are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States

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