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While some of the represented artists may not be familiar to most of the public, the exhibit offers viewers a broad introduction to the work of 17th century Dutch artists, and the various subjects they treat: landscapes, figure studies, architecture, Biblical subjects, quotidian scenes and natural history...
...always considered a kind of art apart, just as the Dutch republic was a kind of novel form of government and regarded with disdain by aristocratic and monarchical regimes. So in that sense, Dutch art was a kind of revolutionary, innovative art in the 17th century...
...year, and to whom the exhibit and associated catalogue are dedicated—and George S. Abrams ’54, who is also a Crimson editor. Over the course of 40 years of collecting, the Boston couple assembled the world’s most comprehensive private collection of 17th century Dutch drawings...
...wife and I started collecting in 1960, when we were in our twenties,” Abrams said. “We loved drawings and very early on we started concentrating on Dutch 17th century drawings. We really were collecting for ourselves and it was a little against the trend of collecting at the time. The real interest in drawings was in Italian and French. But we loved the Dutch area...
IMAGE AND EMPIRE: PICTURING INDIA DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. The exhibit features about 50 different works of art that capture different views of colonial India. The paintings, decorative objects, figurines, photographs and sketches not only document the colonial era (17th-20th centuries) in India, but also demonstrate the cross-pollination between British and Indian artistic traditions. See full story in the Feb. 7 Arts section. Through May 25. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free for Harvard ID holders, Cambridge Public Library card holders and to people under...