Gallery Talk: Returning Their Gaze—Portraits of American Women

Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning about a few of the 19th-century American women whose portraits are displayed in the Harvard Art Museums galleries. This talk by graduate curatorial intern Saffron Hooper Sener will explore Portrait of a Young Woman in White by Julien Hudson, Woman with Spectacles by William Matthew Prior, Portrait of a Young Woman by Joshua Johnson, and Harriet Leavens by Ammi Phillips.

Led by:Saffron Hooper Sener, Graduate Curatorial Intern of American Art, Division of European and American Art

Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the gallery talk. Talks are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.