Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Join us for a look at our new exhibition, “Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black,” opening September 12, 2025.
This exhibition celebrates the act of drawing using familiar tools—charcoal, chalk, crayon, and graphite—through 120 captivating works, spanning from the 19th to 21st centuries.
Visitors will enjoy drawings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, John Singer Sargent, and Odilon Redon, alongside 20th- and 21st-century artists such as Piet Mondrian, Lyonel Feininger, Diego Rivera, Richard Serra, John Wilson, Isabella Quintanilla, and Toyin Ojih Odutola, all of whom push their use of drawing media in new directions.
Visitors are invited to sketch in the galleries, experiment with media in the Materials Lab and continue drawing through a series of Instagram tutorials.
https://harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/6465/sketch-shade-smudge-drawing-from-gray-to-black
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Support for this exhibition is provided by the Martha Tedeschi Exhibition Fund, made possible by the Lunder Foundation—Peter and Paula Lunder Family; the Alexander S., Robert L., and Bruce A. Beal Exhibition Fund; the Anthony and Celeste Meier Exhibitions Fund; the Rabb Family Exhibitions Fund; and the Annemarie Henle Pope Special Exhibitions Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund.
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