Spotlight Tour: Beneath the Armor, with Andy Kim ’25

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Harvard Art Museums

A smiling young man wearing glasses and a dark T-shirt stands on a bridge. He holds his arm out as if to support a Greek vase. The vase is decorated with horses and men in armor carrying shields.

Andy Kim will explore the human stories behind three works featuring soldiers, inspired by his own military service.

No application or registration needed.

Cost

This Event is free!

Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

Location

  • In-person only.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

Dates and Times

Sunday, September 29, 2PM – 2:50PM

Additional information

The tour will move from a scene of a warrior’s farewell to a scene of battle to a scene that indicates a homecoming. Kim will spotlight Hydria (water jar): Warrior’s farewell (Greek, c. 550–540 BCE), Charles Wilson Peale’s portrait of General George Washington at Yorktown, Pennsylvania (1784), and Robert Smullyan Sloan’s 1945 painting of a Black soldier.


 

A smiling young man wearing glasses and a dark T-shirt stands on a bridge. He holds his arm out as if to support a Greek vase. The vase is decorated with horses and men in armor carrying shields.
Sunday, September 29, 2PM – 2:50PM
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