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Having returned from a European tour with stops at the British Museum and the Institut Netherlands in Paris, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection is making its next stop at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum...
...Abrams began their relationship with Harvard and the Fogg Museum more than 25 years...
...wife and I continued to collect in that area and periodically make gifts to Harvard to try to strengthen the Dutch drawing area in the Fogg collection,” said Mr. Abrams. “We always thought it was rather special to be able to hold wonderful works of art in your hands and be able to look at them intimately. We thought that students doing that would get a pleasure that they can’t normally...
Sixteen of the drawings currently on display have been permanently donated to the Fogg museum, part of a total donation of 110 works donated by the Abrams in 1999. Many of the rest, according to Robinson, are on long-term loan to the Fogg, and remain accessible even when not on display...
Walking from the Fogg along Quincy Street, look left at the narrow vertical windows along the curved bay of the second-floor sculpture studio. These windows are called ondulatoires, and have an almost religious feel to them; Le Corbusier used them in a monastery near Lyon, France. Standing at the top of the ramp, look up at the brises soleils, angled baffles intended to obscure direct sun while admitting natural light into the building. Le Corbusier was extremely concerned with the path of the sun and studied its angles at different times of day to great length. As a result...