Spotlight Tour: Visions of America, with Hannah Gadway ’25

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Harvard Art Museums

Free

A young woman in a black patterned dress stands by a mantle gesturing toward a painting that appears to be floating. In the painting, beams of heavenly light illuminate a lush valley nestled in a mountain range.

Hannah Gadway will explore how works of art have envisioned the past, present, and future of the United States.

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, October 13 11AM – 11:50AM

Additional information

The stops on the tour include Charles Willson Peale’s 1784 portrait of General George Washington awaiting the British surrender at Yorktown; Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” (1863), painted by Albert Bierstadt during the U.S. Civil War; and Jackson Pollock’s No. 2 (1950), an example of the artist’s iconic “drip” method, which garnered international attention in the years after World War II.

Free

A young woman in a black patterned dress stands by a mantle gesturing toward a painting that appears to be floating. In the painting, beams of heavenly light illuminate a lush valley nestled in a mountain range.

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Last updated October 9, 2024.