Friday, June 20, 2025
Friday, June 20, 2025
About this Event
The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond celebrates a significant recent bequest to the Harvard Art Museums from passionate collectors Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon. The exhibition spotlights over 135 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by some of the most significant artists from the Renaissance to the 20th century, and offers visitors an intimate view into the highly personal yet inherently collaborative nature of art collecting.
The artists featured span six centuries and include virtuoso printmakers, from the pioneers of engraving such as Hans Sebald Beham, Martin Schongauer, and Albrecht Dürer to inventive painter-etchers like Salvator Rosa, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes; provocateurs of 19th-century painting such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne; groundbreaking sculptors like Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Henry Moore, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, David Smith, and Anthony Caro; trailblazers of abstraction like Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons; and stalwart Boston artists Marjorie Minkin and Peter Lipsitt.