Gallery Talk: Sketching Sensation

Join curator of American art Horace Ballard for a gallery rumination around ideas of abstraction, atmosphere, and emotion in Leon Dabo’s Beach Scene, a drawing made exactly 112 years ago today!

This talk is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black, on view from September 12, 2025 to January 18, 2026.

Led by:
Horace Ballard, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator 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. Space is limited, and talks are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

You may also like the following events from Harvard Art Museums:

• This Thursday, 4th September, 12:30 pm, Gallery Talk: Activation of Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage in Cambridge
• This Saturday, 6th September, 12:00 pm, Exhibition Tour: Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static in Cambridge
• Next Thursday, 11th September, 06:00 pm, Opening Lecture for Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black in Cambridge

Also check out other Arts events in Cambridge, Fine Arts events in Cambridge, Exhibitions in Cambridge.