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Exhibitions
Bristol: The Glad Hand, Verdict,
April 16, 1900, Senator Thomas
Platt, state Republican Party boss,
and Governor Roosevelt before
the Republican National Convention
Theodore Roosevelt Collection,
Harvard College Library
T.R. in Cartoon: The Verdict, 1898–1900
The Verdict was a Democratic weekly of cartoons and comment, published in New York City during the period coinciding with Theodore Roosevelt's Republican governorship of New York State.
Theodore Roosevelt Gallery, Pusey Library
Monday–Friday, 9 am–4:45 pm
For details contact Wallace Dailey at 617-384-7938
A political cartoon from the Hofer
Prize-winning collection of The Art
of War in Revolutionary America:
"Mr. Smith in the Character of Plum" .
2007-08 Winners of the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting and The Philip Hofer Prize for Art and Book Collecting
The Francophone Collection, Finding P.G. Wodehouse: Catalytic Legacies of My Grandfather's India, Representative Works in Science and the History of Science, The Art of War in Revolutionary America, and Figbash and Wild Things: The Illustrations of Edward St. John Gorey and Maurice Sendak. Samplings of the collections of these prize-winning entries, along with personal commentary, are on exhibit.
Hours
For details call Lynn Sayers at 617-495-245
From The Hidden Canyon: A River
Journey by John Blaustein
(Chronicle
Books, San Francisco, 1999)
Sublime Spectacle: Exploration and Geology in the Grand Canyon
While it can be appreciated solely for its natural beauty, the Grand Canyon is also one of the best places on earth to see a record of the earth’s geological past. This exhibit shows what the canyon consists of and how it was formed, and also discusses the exploration of the canyon by scientists in the 19th century. Clarence Dutton’s 1882 Atlas to Accompany the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District, one of the most beautiful works on the canyon, will be on display.
Cabot Science Library Exhibition Case, main floor
Hours
For details contact Reed Lowrie at 617-496-5534
Charles Eliot Norton, photograph
by
J. E. Purdy & Co, Boston, 1903.
At his death on October 21, 1908, Charles Eliot Norton was regarded by many as one of the most influential members of its faculty in the history of Harvard University. Edward W. Forbes, one of Norton’s students and later director of the Fogg Art Museum, wrote that “if you ask anyone who was at Harvard during these years — doctor, lawyer, scientist or businessman — from what courses he received the most, the answer would probably be, ‘From Professor Norton’s fine arts courses.’ Though there were loafers and athletes who took the courses because they were easy to pass, even for them I think it was a case of: ‘and those who came to scoff, remained to pray.’ William James wrote privately to his sister Alice that “the way that man gets his name stuck to every greatness is fabulous – Dante, Goethe, Carlyle, Ruskin, Fitzgerald, Chauncey Wright, and now Lowell! His name will dominate the literary history of this epoch.”
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library
Hours
For details contact Monique Duhaime at 617-495-2441
A New Sea Quadrant, invented, made
and sold by Geo. Adams (London, 1748).
Houghton Library, 90W-1.
To Promote, To Learn, To Teach, To Please: Scientific Images in Early Modern Books
Images in early modern European books of science (1500-1750) were shaped not only by the needs of scientific communication, they were also deeply influenced by economic, social, and cultural considerations. Through representative examples, this exhibition examines physical evidence both in the images themselves and in the books they illustrated. Men of science, as well as the craftsmen who made and printed the images, used the techniques available to them to produce illustrations that sought to satisfy two important sets of demands: the needs of scientific communication, and the desires of a potential audience of readers and purchasers.
The exhibition will include significant examples drawn from the collections of Houghton Library and Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. Curator of the exhibition is Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Assistant Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library
Hours
For details contact Caroline Duroselle-Melish at 617-495-2444
Fogg Art Museum. Library
Reading
Room, 1951.
September 15 – January 15, 2009
“An Invaluable Partner…” : Eighty Years of the Fine Arts Library
In preparation for the Fine Arts Library's relocation in 2009, during the renovation of the Fogg Art Museum, the library presents a visual history of the collection from its beginnings in the 1927 Fogg building, through integration with Widener collections in 1962 and expansion into Werner Otto Hall in 1991.
Main Floor Exhibition Case, Fine Arts Library
Hours
For details contact Bob Sennett via e-mail or 617-496-1502
Jan Smit's Ware afbeeldinge na het
leven van het overstroomen der
revieren en het doorbreeken van
den dyck, one in a series of four maps
illustrating the flooding of the Rhine in
Gelderland during the winter of 1740-41.
September 24 – January 30, 2009
From the Amazon to the Volga: The Cartographic Representation of Rivers
For centuries cartographers have wrestled with the difficulties of depicting rivers, and in the process they have devised many ingenious ways of answering the challenge—from streambed profiles to bird’s eye views, ranging in format from portfolio atlases to strip maps, accordion books, and scrolls. This exhibit examines how mapmakers from the 15th century to the early 20th century sought to measure, track, and frame some of the major rivers of the world, including the Tigris and Euphrates, Amazon, Don, Danube, Nile, Congo, Rhine, Volga, and Mississippi.
Map Gallery Hall, Pusey Library
Hours
For details contact Joseph Garver at 617-495-2417
High spirits in the plaza at New Awatovi in 1939.
Photo by
Hattie Cosgrove. Peabody Museum 2004.1.123.1.45.
Awatovi was one of the first villages of the Hopi mesas in northeastern Arizona. In the early 1500s, it was somewhat isolated from European infringement but by the 1600s Spanish missionaries had brought new religion, regulations, and tactics of coercion and control. The Hopi response was mixed, even as the blended new ways with old, they maintained the old traditions in secrecy and at great personal risk. Finally in the fall of 1700, some Hopi chose to burn Awatovi, symbolically killing the village so that its people might move forward in a new place.
“Remembering Awatovi” goes behind the scenes of the last archaeological expedition of its kind at this ancient site. Part history of archaeology and part social history, the exhibit reveals what the archaeologists found in the village of Awatovi with its beautiful kiva murals and church, and how the archaeologists lived in “New Awatovi,” the camp they built for themselves beside the dig. The written and photographic records of “New Awatovi” add a new dimension to the discoveries of the dig itself.
Tozzer Library Gallery
Hours
For details contact Janet Steins at 617-495-2292
Theodore Roosevelt,
Yosemite 1903,
Theodore Roosevelt
Collection.
Through the Camera Lens: Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Photography
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's birth.
Pusey Library corridor, including the Theodore Roosevelt Gallery
Monday–Friday, 9 am–4:45 pm
For details contact Wallace Dailey at 617-384-7938
From January through May 2009, portions of the exhibition will remain on display in the Theodore Roosevelt Gallery.
RELATED EVENT:
Friday, October 3, 4:00 p.m., Sanders Theatre
Distance in His Eyes, a lecture by Ken Burns, Florentine Films, regarding the fall 2009 release of his new feature film on the U.S. national park system.
Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Roaming Caribou Do It: Migration in the Animal Kingdom
As children we learn that birds fly south for the winter, but few of us realize the scope and variety of migratory behaviors in animals. This exhibit will look at the migration of mammals, birds, and insects, with an emphasis on how human behavior and activity impacts the movement of animals through the environment.
Cabot Science Library Exhibition Case, main floor
Hours
For details contact Reed Lowrie at 617-496-5534
Immersed in a “Different Atmosphere”: Reflections on Yaddo
Created in 1900 by Spencer and Katrina Trask of Saratoga Springs, New York, Yaddo has provided a serene and sequestered retreat to over five thousand writers and artists. This exhibition focuses on the experiences of these creative visitors to Yaddo, including Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Wolfe, James Laughlin, and others.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library
Hours
For details contact Heather Cole at 617-495-2449
Portrait of Nadia Boulanger,
Radcliffe Archives.
Nadia Boulanger and Her American Composition Students
This exhibit focuses on Nadia Boulanger, one of the foremost composition teachers of the 20th century, especially her American ties and her influence on generations of American composers. The exhibit is scheduled to coincide with "Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000," an international conference to be held at Harvard October 30 through November 1, 2008.
Richard F. French Gallery, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Fanny Mason Peabody Music Building
Hours
For details contact Sarah Adams at 617-496-3359
Continuing Exhibitions
Mercator Globes
Exhibition includes Gerard Mercator's terrestrial (1541) and celestial (1551) globes that reflect new discoveries in world geography and cosmography as well as new techniques in charting, printing, and globe making. Only 22 matched pairs survive, Harvard's being the only matched pair in America.
Mercator Case, Map Gallery Hall
Hours
For details call the Map Collection at 617-495-2417
Lectures
Friday, October 3, 4:00 p.m.
Ken Burns. Photo credit: Cable Risdon,
courtesy of Florentine Films
Distance in His Eyes
A lecture by Ken Burns, Florentine Films, regarding the fall 2009 release of his new feature film on the U.S. national park system.
Sanders Theatre
For details contact Wallace Dailey at 617-384-7938
91st George Parker Winship Lecture
Details to be announced
Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture
Details to be announced
Chamber Music at Houghton Library
Thursday, October 23, 8:00 p.m.
Richard Stoltzman, Clarinet
Yehudi Wyner, Piano
Yehudi Wyner (b. 1929), Commedia for Clarinet and Piano
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1
J. S. Bach (1685-1750), Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 (Sonata No. 2 for Viola da Gamba and Keyboard)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Sonatina in D major, D. 384, Op. Post. 137, No. 1 (Sonatina No. 1 for Violin and Piano)
Thursday, December 4, 8:00 p.m.
Chiara String Quartet
Rebecca Fischer, Violin
Julie Yoon, Violin
Jonah Sirota, Viola
Gregory Beaver, Violoncello
W. A. Mozart (1765-1791), String Quartet No. 18 in A Major, Op. 10, No. 5, K. 464
Elliott Carter (b. 1908), String Quartet No. 4
W. A. Mozart, String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 6, K. 465
Tuesday, February 24, 8:00 p.m.
Members of Sprezzatura
Vocal and instrumental ensemble
Michael Barrett, Director
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Selections from Kleine Geistliche Konzerte
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Trio Cavatina
Harumi Rhodes, Violin
Dan McDonough, Violoncello (Guest Artist)
Ieva Jokubaviciute, Piano
W. A. Mozart (1765-1791), Piano Trio in B-flat Major, K. 502
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 110
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Verano Portena, Primavera Portena
Paul Schoenfield (b. 1947), Café Music
All programs are tentative and subject to change.
All concerts take place in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
Subscription information is mailed about September 1.
Single tickets go on sale at the Harvard Box Office about October 1.
Single ticket orders may be placed online at The Harvard Box Office, online (http://boxoffice.harvard.edu/), by telephone (617-496-2222),
or in person (Holyoke Center Arcade, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue). Last season was sold out by subscription, so very few single tickets were available.
Parking arrangements may be made directly with the Harvard Parking Services Office, online (http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/parking),
by telephone (617-495-3772), or by e-mail (parking@harvard.edu).
For further information, please contact the Harvard Theatre Collection
by telephone at 617-495-2445 or by e-mail at htc@harvard.edu.
Films
Yi Yi, by Edward Yang.
Pictured: Jonathan Chang
September 13 – 21
The Taiwan Stories of Edward Yang and Wu Nien-jen
Edward Yang and Wu Nien-jen are two of the leading figures in the New Taiwan Cinema. The HFA will screen the works of both, with a special in person appearance by Wu Nien-jen.
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
For details contact Brooke Holgerson at 617-496-3211
Lucrecia Martel, La Maestra
The HFA is pleased to welcome Lucrecia Martel to its theater for
screenings of her Salta Trilogy: La Cienega, The Holy Girl, and her
newest film, The Headless Woman.
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
For details contact Brooke Holgerson at 617-496-3211
The Harvard Film Archive offers an ongoing public film program.
For details see the Monthly
Calendar available on the HFA Web site.
