Symposium—Dutch Drawings on the Horizon: A Day of Talks in Honor of George S. Abrams

A Day of Talks in Honor of George S. Abrams

This symposium brings together international experts on 17th-century Dutch drawings in honor of George S. Abrams (Harvard College ’54, Harvard Law ’57). Mr. Abrams and his late wife, Maida, pioneered the collecting of Dutch drawings in the United States and have been a unifying force for study and scholarship in the field. Their generous gift of 110 works in 1999 transformed the Harvard Art Museums’ Dutch drawings collection into one of the most comprehensive in any U.S. museum. Speakers will use the vast breadth and depth of the Abrams Collection as a touchstone for discussing the exceptional draftsmanship of the Dutch Golden Age, from Goltzius to Rembrandt.

The symposium coincides with the installation The Art of Drawing in the Early Dutch Golden Age, 1590–1630: Selected Works from the Abrams Collection, on view at the Harvard Art Museums through January 14, 2018.

November 4, 2017
10am–4pm

Harvard Art Museums
Menschel Hall
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA

Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 9:30am. Free and open to the public. Limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.

Support for this program is provided by the Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Support Fund and the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, the latter of which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

Image: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, A Farm on the Amsteldijk(?), c. 1650–52. Brown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper. The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Maida Abrams, 2004.181.

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