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Spotlight Tour: Food for Thought, with Hannah Gadway ’25

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Harvard Art Museums

A young woman gestures toward a painting floating just above a fireplace, while looking at the camera. The painting features strokes of green, blue, and yellow that saturate the top half and coalesce into the image of a lush grove.

Hannah Gadway will explore food-inspired works of art from the past to reflect on our attitudes about food today.

No application or registration needed.

Cost

This Event is free!

Please check in with museum staff at the Admissions 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

.: Sun, September 10 2023 2PM – 2:50PM.

Additional information

On this tour, Hannah Gadway ’25 will explore food-inspired works of art from the past to reflect on our attitudes about food today. Among the works discussed will be a gourd-shaped ewer made in Korea in the 12th century, The Breakfast Table (1883–84), an oil painting made in Paris by John Singer Sargent, and Pear Tree (1903), an oil painting made in Austria by Gustav Klimt.

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A young woman gestures toward a painting floating just above a fireplace, while looking at the camera. The painting features strokes of green, blue, and yellow that saturate the top half and coalesce into the image of a lush grove.

.: Sun, September 10 2023 2PM – 2:50PM.

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Harvard Art Museums

(617) 495-9400
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Last updated August 23, 2023.