Spotlight Tour: Portraiture by 19th-Century Black American Artists, with Sophia Scott ’25

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Harvard Art Museums

Free

In this photomontage, a young dark-skinned woman in profile and a white marble bust of a man with curly locks of hair and a beard seem to look at each other.

Sophia Scott will explore how portraits, often of white subjects, were a site of struggle and invention for 19th-century Black artists.

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, February 2 2PM – 2:50PM

Additional information

On this tour, Sophia Scott ’25 will examine the contributions of Black artists whose labor and skill were central to shaping American art, even as the artists themselves remained excluded from many of its spaces. We will look at how these artists navigated the constraints of their time by creating portraits, often of white subjects. These works invite us to reconsider whose stories are seen and valued.

Free

In this photomontage, a young dark-skinned woman in profile and a white marble bust of a man with curly locks of hair and a beard seem to look at each other.

Sunday, February 2 2PM – 2:50PM

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Harvard Art Museums

(617) 495-9400

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Last updated January 15, 2025.