Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Two rectangular canvases, one in yellow the other in grey, joined horizontally.

Rodeo, 1971

Brice Marden

Robe with vertical bands of yellow, blue, and red abstract designs.

Woman's Robe, 1840/60

Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Gustave Caillebotte

White sculpture of various sized rectangles stacked and interlocked with one another.

Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid, 1926

Georges Vantongerloo

Winter landscape painting with rocky stream lined by orange leafed trees.

Icebound, c. 1889

John Henry Twachtman

A textile featuring two pheasants in the upper portion facing one another, strands of golden beads held between them in their beaks, symmetrical garlands above and below them, a golden structure near the middle, and curled ribbons embroidered near the bottom.

The Pheasants from the "Verdures of the Vatican" Series, c. 1799

Jean-Demosthene Dugourc

Half circle of fabric, embroidered with Virgin Mary, saints, prophets, and plant motif.

Cope, 1490-1525, with later restoration

Blue and gray abstract painting with lines of yellow, white, and red crossing vertically.

The Beginning, 1946

Barnett Newman

Painting of a beach on a cloudy day with several sailboats on the water, a few rowboats on the shore, and two groupings of people on the sand.

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867

Claude Monet

Seated wooden Buddha statue with with forefinger touching thumb.

Seated Bodhisattva, 8th century

A three-part panel featuring a variety of scenes, vertically stacked and richly painted. The central panel features the Virgin Mary and and Child flanked by archangels Gabriel and Michael, twelve disciples below them in grid formation.

Triptych Icon, Late 17th century

Large painting on seven panels of dark landscape with small abstract shapes.

Untitled, 1928

Yves Tanguy

Multi-paneled painting depicting a watchtower, geese, and various beach items.

Watchtower with Geese (Hochsitz mit Gänsen), 1987/88

Sigmar Polke

Large panel of red fabric covered in repeating white floral pattern.

Mohnköpfe (Poppyheads) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1900

Koloman (Kolo) Moser

Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque, c. 1885

Paul Cezanne

The top half of a light-skinned man in overalls is attached laterally to a tree trunk, his legs and partial torso attached in the same way father up on the trunk. He holds one of his large ears and closes one eye.

Woodman (Waldarbeiter), 1969

Georg Baselitz

Black and white photograph of bicyclist on cobbled street, from top of curved staircase.

Hyères, France, 1932, printed 1930/39

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Multi-color pastel drawing of sharply distorted human figures.

Two Women's Torsos, 1952

Willem de Kooning

Black ink drawing of forested landscape, statue of woman holding child at pinnacle of mountain.

Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains, 1804

Caspar David Friedrich

Drawing of god, radiating light, reaching down from clouds, touching male figure.

The Creation of Adam, c. 1645/50

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione