Student tour guide, Eve Crompton, talks about the Picasso’s “Mother and Child,” a piece from the artist’s blue period, and provides some compelling background on how Picasso came to create this work. “Mother and Child” is on view at the Harvard Art Museums. Eve Crompton is a Ho Family Student Guide. Admission to the Harvard Art Museums is free every day (Tuesday through Sunday).
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish, "Mother and Child" (Maternité), 1901. Painting: Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.57. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. hvrd.art/o/299993
Speaker: Eve Crompton, Ho Family Student Guide. Harvard College, Class of 2024.
The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each Student Guide and offer a unique, thematic view into the collections.
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