Spotlight Tour: Fabrics of Art, with Varya Lyapneva ’26
By Harvard Art Museums
Varya Lyapneva ’26 will explore the role of fabric in the history of painting and sculpture, looking closely at three works.
.: Sunday, March 31 11am – 11:50am.
Contact
No application or registration needed.
Free!
Please check in with museum staff at the Admissions desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.
Location
- In-person only.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
Maraykanka
Wheelchair accessible.
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Additional information
On this tour, Varya Lyapneva ’26 will explore the role of fabric in the history of painting and sculpture, looking closely at three works. They are Red and Pink (1925), a painting commissioned from Georgia O’Keeffe by the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company; Edgar Degas’s Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen (1880), a sculpture that radically incorporates diverse materials, including a real tulle skirt; and Mama Ocllo (1835–45), a painting from Spanish colonial Peru that depicts the mythic Inkan queen credited with teaching Inka women how to weave cloth.
Last updated March 20, 2024.
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