Gallery Talk: Media as Muse in 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings

Date: 

Thursday, July 14, 2022, 12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Focusing on a small selection of drawings, conservator Penley Knipe will explore how Dutch artists of the 17th century creatively combined drawing media to dazzling effect in their pursuit of rendering local landscapes. Visitors will learn about well-known materials like charcoal and watercolor and lesser-known materials like gum arabic and “oatmeal” paper, as well as how the work of paper conservators advances research and scholarship.

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