Harvard's Fogg Museum of Art

Harvard is a well-funded educational establishment with a mission not only to display art but to teach it. The Fogg Museum of Art is the oldest on the American Continent and it rewards the visitor in many ways … both architecturally on the inner side and artistically in its fine collection. The center is an Italian palazzo surrounded by two levels of galleries. The Fogg is the center of three other galleries, including the integral Busch-Reisinger gallery of modern art and the Sackler, next door. There is no restaurant … this is an educational establishment … so plan on an hour or so and visit the Sackler museum of Roman and Greek art next door to complete the morning. Lunch in Harvard Square should complete the experience. Click on the thumbnails for larger pictures.

Watercolour of a Pheasant's tail feather

 

	Claude Monet has been defined by his innumerable paintings of lilies in his garden and their depiction on coffee cups, mouse pads, and scarves, He painted with much more variety that simple lilies or Rouen Cathedral would suggest. Here are three subjects usually not recognizable as Monet's.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres is well represented at the Fogg by paintings and studies of the human form. One not shown is the 'Grande Odalisque'.
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Vincent Van Gogh is represented in the Fogg by a number of paintings … two shown here … one being painted when Van Gogh stayed with mining families in Flanders early in his career. The self portrait seems to show uyet another painter who didn't like himself.
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Paul Cezanne who proclaimed that he was a painter of apples.	Rembrandt van Rijn	Edgar Degas and his dancing studio	Edvard Munch in New York
This will provide a little of the variety that you will find in the Fogg Museum of Art