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...While three prominent portraits of Harvard women have been added to the room, the space is dominated by a superb portrait of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, painted by John Singer Sargent. Lowell, who served as president of Harvard for 24 years, is now infamous for his bigoted attitudes toward African-Americans, Jews, homosexuals, and other minorities. “In the stories of racial minorities of all kinds, ethnic minorities, Harvard has a history of overt discrimination,” Ulrich says...
...next portrait in the Minority Portrait Project portrays former dean 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...
...Though Harvard’s portraits are often embroiled in debates over gender and race, the collection also represents a continuous history of American portraiture and contains some stunning examples of the genre. There is, for instance, the exquisite portrait of John Quincy Adams that sits near the tray disposal in Adams dining hall. It is a work by Gilbert Stuart, perhaps the most famous American portrait artist, and was finished by Thomas Scully. Grindlay calls it “a very major work of American art.” Another Singer Sargent, of Charles W. Eliot, rests in Eliot...
...This is something the Minority Portrait Initiative is trying to change. “The first time we unveiled one of the new portraits, I could tell the students were very moved by seeing this,” she adds. “In terms of how students see themselves and see themselves fitting in, the portraits play a major role...
...were so beautiful you “cried and laughed and raged.” What were some of these books? Were those sources of inspiration for your own writing? MR: There were a few books that made me do all three—for example, “Portrait of a Lady.” Reading Henry James always makes me so upset. I love Henry James, but at the same time you want to take his characters by the shoulders and shake them and say, “Wake up!” THC: Is there anything that...