Word: grindlays
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...Grindlay, however, offers a slightly different take. “Do you change history or do you present it as it is and try to do better?” she says. “You try to right the balance...
...Grindlay praises Coit’s work, saying, “He throws his whole heart and soul into every commission...
...left in 1971 feeling a great disconnection from Harvard,” Coit says. “This [portraiture] has made me feel a lot more connected to the institution.” Grindlay focuses on this same power of connection. “For me these portraits are a special thing that makes history more real,” she says. “It can be a very effective connection. It can be used very successfully as a way of understanding the institution...
...With regard to the hidden history of women at Harvard, which stretches far past when they were first admitted to Harvard Yard in 1972, Grindlay notes that although only three of the more than two dozen portraits in the Faculty Room are of women, many of them have been painted by female artists...
...John Monro, will be unveiled at Phillip Brooks House on Oct. 16, and, on Nov. 10, a new portrait of President Drew Faust, also painted by Coit, will make its debut at the Schlessinger Library. “Drew hasn’t seen it yet,” Grindlay says. “It’s really great. It’s very, very successful...