Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Loosely painted image of an open-air train station. On the right, a parked train gives off an enormous plumb of white smoke, making the scene look as though it were full of clouds. A huddled mass of barely discernible people crowd around the train on both sides of the tracks. Blue, green, and gray tones dominate.

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877

Claude Monet

Painting of a mustached man with a wide-brimmed black hat and white flat collar seen from the waist up, turned to the viewer.

Portrait of an Artist, 1644

Follower of Frans Hals

Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.

At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–95

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Abstract painting with beige background, lines creating sharp angles, minimal color.

Excavation, 1950

Willem de Kooning

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Peeling Paint, Jerome, Arizona, 1949

Aaron Siskind

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Crucifixion, 1627

Francisco de Zurbarán

Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

Claude Monet

Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left. The background is a feathered swirl suggesting floral pattern in cool pale tones of gray, purple, pink, and blue.

Woman at Her Toilette, 1875–80

Berthe Morisot

A work made of oil on canvas.

Water Painting IX, 1974

Joseph Raffael

Painting of a small pond dense with pink water lilies, their roots visible through the water, a railed footbridge arching over the pond and lush, dark green folliage surrounding it.

Water Lily Pond, 1900

Claude Monet

A work made of etching, soft ground etching, aquatint, and drypoint on grayish-ivory wove paper.

Mary Cassatt in the Paintings Gallery at the Louvre, 1879–80

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of linen, single knots and extended threads; (pressure mounted into fan shape).

Painted Fan, 1981

Diane Itter

Painting of a cliff overlooking the sea. Two figures in long dresses, one with a parasol, stand on the cliff beneath blue sky.

Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882

Claude Monet

Painting of mother in blue, purple, and green-stripped dress washing child's feet.

The Child's Bath, 1893

Mary Cassatt

A work made of huanghuali wood.

Painting Table, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), late 17th/early 18th century

A work made of terracotta and pigmented slip.

Female Figure with Geometric Face and Body Paint, 200–100 BCE

Chupícuaro

A work made of pigment and gold on cotton.

Painted Banner (Thangka) with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru), 14th century

A work made of color lithograph on cream wove paper.

Uxbridge: Across the Colne to Beechy Bucks, April 20, 1922

Charles Paine

Loosely painted scene of a brown-haired girl in her nightgown standing in a dark room, gazing out a window into a brighter night, her face unseen and her hand drawing back the pale curtain. Light blues and pink whites dominate the girl and the window, while deep browns, blues, and greens color the darkened portions of her room.

The Girl by the Window, 1893

Edvard Munch

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright