#Harvard Art Museums

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Sarah Miriam Peale (1800-1885) "Still Life with Watermelon" (1822) Oil on panel Located in the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

#paintings #art #artwork #still life painting #fruit #sarah miriam peale #oil on panel #oil on wood panel #fine art #fogg museum #harvard art museums #museum #art gallery #american artist #woman artist #women artists #female artists #fruits #watermelon #melon #grapes #1822 #early 1800s #early 18th century

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#TwoForTuesday:

Pair of Jade Tigers

China, Zhou Dynasty, Warring States or Western Han period, 3rd century BCE

nephrite, L. 19.1 x H. 8.8 x T. 0.5 cm (7 1/2 x 3 7/16 x 3/16 in.)

on display at Harvard Art Museums 1943.50.469 A, B

#animals in art #museum visit #Two for Tuesday #tiger #pair #jade #nephrite #Chinese art #East Asian art #Asian art #ancient art #Harvard Art Museums

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Rabbit, Wave, and Full Moon, Kano Tsunenobu, ca. 1683

#Lunar New Year #Year of the Rabbit #art #art history #Asian art #Japan #Japanese art #Kano Tsunenobu #animals in art #rabbit #rabbits #Edo period #17th century art #album leaf #ink color and gold on silk #East Asia #East Asian art #Harvard Art Museums #Arthur M. Sackler Museum

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Opium pipe - China, Qing dynasty to Republican period, inscribed with cyclical date corresponding to 1868 or 1928. Water buffalo horn, metal, and ceramic. - Harvard Art Museums

It probably wasn't a bequest, it just kept turning up in the House Administrator's residence at Cabot House. 🔽

Cabot House (above) was built with money donated from Boston's most successful slave-trading, opium-smuggling family, the Cabots. Serously, the house is named in honor of Thomas and Virginia Cabot, benefactors of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. The Cabots were part of the Boston Brahmin, also known as the "first families of Boston".

Here's the Cabot family Coat of arms.

Perhaps the 3 fish represent the ways the family built their fortune at sea:

Slave-trading

Piracy

Opium smuggling

Opulence and Opium: The Legacy of Harvard's Drug Syndicate

Of all the families implicated in the drug trade, Bradley argues, the Cabot family was the most nefarious. The Cabots profited from the slave trade. They sent privateers to attack ships from imperial powers and sell their spoils. Finally, while operating in China, they caught wind of the lucrative opium export business. Elated, they brought the trade back to Boston. Within a few short decades, the Cabots had formed an empire, cementing their status as Boston’s elite, the Boston Brahmins. [...] these families had become deeply embedded in the Harvard hierarchy. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, members of these families were treasurers for Harvard, directors for the Harvard and the Massachusetts Bank, and even the president of Harvard College.

Cabot House's Coat of arms

Party-time at Cabot House! Harvard students and one of their professors, celebrating the football team's 18-0 victory over rival Dartmouth on November 12th 1910 in one of the Cabot house's dorm rooms.

I'm just kidding about that being a photograph of Harvard students, but they really did beat Dartmouth that year.

#pipe #opium #china #harvard #cabot #cabot family #ivy league opium dealers #qing dynasty #opium pipe #opulence and opium #dartmouth #football #ivy league #piracy #slavers #drug smuggling #harvard art museums

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The Cripple Portfolio, 1920– Heinrich Hoerle

Help the Cripples // Hallucinations

The Father // Friendly Dreams

The Tree of Longing // The Married Couple

The Unemployed Man // End of the Road

The Man with the Wooden Leg Dreams // The Breadwinner

#I can’t fit the whole series in one part hold on #the rest will follow shortly #Heinrich hoerle #harvard art museums #neue sachlichkeit #new objectivity

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A Filipino-American artist Pacita Abad (1946-2004) was born in Batanes, Philippines, and lived in Philippines until her parents urged her to leave Manila in 1970. As a law student, Abad had begun to organize demonstrations opposing the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Her organizing activities led her and her family in Manila to become targets of political violence. Abad took her parents’ advice and left Philippines. She enrolled at the University of San Francisco to study Asian history while supporting herself as a seamstress and a typist.

Abad became interested in art and eventually became a global artist. She has lived in many countries, including Bangladesh, Yemen, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia, incorporating many different techniques and styles she encountered in her travels into her artwork. Abad would sew, stitch, and collage objects such as stones, sequins, glass, buttons, shells, and mirrors onto painted canvas to create vibrantly colorful works.

Fortunate for those who can visit Harvard, Abad’s work is now being shown as a part of “Future Minded: New Works in the Collection” at the Harvard Art Museums, which is free to the public.

Image 1: Pacita Abad featured in the publication, Obsession

Image 2: “The Great Barrier Reef,” 1991. Mixed media. Currently being exhibited at the Harvard Art Museums.

Obsession Pacita Abad; [catalogue edited by Jack Garrity; with essays by Ian Findlay-Brown and Ruben Defeo]. [Singapore : Pacita Abad Foundation], c2004. English HOLLIS number: 990107751490203941

#WomensHistoryMonth #PacitaAbad #FilipinoAmericanArtist #WomenArtist #HarvardFineArtsLibrary #Fineartslibrary #Harvard #HarvardLibrary #harvard art museums

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Typewriter (1955). Konrad Klapheck.

#konrad klapheck #art #painting #german art #1950s #seen in person #harvard art museums #inventur

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Albert Joseph Moore (British, 1841 - 1893) Companions • c. 1885 • Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

#albert joseph moore #art #painting #fine art #art history #women in paintings #19th century art #british painter #harvard art museums #paintings of women #academic painting #academic art #figurative painting

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

Hyperallergic: The Charges Against a Notorious Suspected Smuggler of Indian Artifacts, August 19, 2019

Hyperallergic: US Authorities Seized 13 Looted Asian Artifacts From Yale University, April 6, 2022

Hyperallergic: Disgraced Art Dealer Subhash Kapoor Hit With 10-Year Prison Sentence, November 3, 2022

Hyperallergic: Looted Antiquities Seized by DA Belonged to Met Trustee, December 2, 2022

Hyperallergic: 1,000+ Objects at The Met Linked to Antiquities Smugglers, March 20, 2023

#India Pride Project #Metropolitan Museum of Art #Yale University Art Gallery #museums #repatriation #shelby white #Subhash Kapoor #smuggling #art #art history #art world #archaeology #Hyperallergic #Denver Art Museum #Harvard Art Museums #Norton Simon Museum #Los Angeles County Museum of Art #National Gallery of Australia #Honolulu Art Museum #Toledo Museum of Art #Thomas Hoving #International Consortium of Investigative Journalists #news

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‘details‘, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA .. by my friend Carter Wentworth, @carterwentworth and @lakeseasky ..

#Harvard Art Museums #Cambridge MA #details #ripplefactor #rpf2

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) "The Pre-Arranged Flight" (c. 1772-1773) Oil on canvas Rococo Located in the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

#paintings #art #artwork #genre painting #genre scene #jean honoré fragonard #jean honore fragonard #oil on canvas #fine art #rococo #harvard art museums #museum #art gallery #french artist #female portrait #portrait of a woman #clothing #clothes #white dress #dresses #1770s #late 1700s #late 18th century

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#MetalMonday:

Lamp in the form of a bird, 12th c.

Persian, Iran, Khorasan province, Seljuk-Atabeg period

Quaternary alloy, cast & incised, with turquoise inlay

13.34 x 19.05 x 19.05 cm (5 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

On display at Harvard Art Museums

#animals in art #museum visit #birds in art #bird #lamp #metalwork #Persian art #Islamic art #medieval art #Harvard Art Museums #Metal Monday

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Birch Tree in a Landscape, Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1899

#art #art history #Paula Modersohn-Becker #female artists #landscape #landscape painting #trees #birches #Expressionism #Expressionist art #German Expressionism #German art #19th century art #oil on board #Harvard Art Museums #Busch-Reisinger Museum

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Gunta Stölzl, Tapestry, (cotton, wool, and linen fibers), 1922-1923 [Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA. © ARS, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn]

Digital Exhibition: Artisanal Modernism and the Labor of Women (Professor Maria Gough, Spring 2022), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2022

#textile #design #art #school #exhibition #gunta stölzl #maria gough #harvard art museums #busch reisinger museum #1920s #2020s

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Karma: Innocent Action, by Diana St Ruth

The more we contemplate life, the more we realise just how mysterious it is. 'Karma: Innocent Action', by Diana St Ruth

It is our basic attitude which relates to how we deal with life. If we think we can have anything we want and do anything we want, then we will probably live in a state of perpetual frustration and disappointment because most of what we want doesn’t come to us, or comes in a way we hadn’t bargained for. Many of us do eventually notice this. As we get older, we generally get the message that life…

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#Harvard Art Museums #Karma

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#harvard #harvard art museums #cambridge #massachusetts #boston art museums #boston #art #art museum #art museums #museums #cezanne #sargent #renoir