Treasure

Two people moving large abstract painting with blue V-shaped design in museum courtyard.

A Harvard Art Museums Painting Gets a Bath

Water and sunlight help restore a modern American classic.

by Max J. Krupnick

Envelope of an old letter

A World War II Love Story From the Schlesinger Library Archives

A wartime life together—cut short

by Blythe Grossberg

Margaret Mee painting of yellow trumpet tree

Rainforest Flora Images by Margaret Mee

Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

Illuminated manuscript page

Rare Books at Risk

Consequences of book-breaking

by Diane E. Booton

A Hasty Pudding Theatricals poster from 1910 showing a debutante curtseying

Harvard Treasure: Hasty Pudding Posters

“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.

by Jonathan Shaw

A colorful Byzantine funerary tunic fragment depicts faces and vegetal patterns with a border of gemstones.

Byzantine Beauties

Textile treasures from Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

A Pocket Globe at the Harvard Archives

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet

Jenny F. so Reinterprets Harvard’S Winthrop Collection

A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection

by John S. Rosenberg

Clay—Modeling African Design Exhibit

Pliable arts from across the continent

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Calderwood Courtyard Centers Harvard Art Museums

A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard

by John S. Rosenberg

Joanna Southcott and “the Songs of Argus Zion”

…and a possible clue in the stacks

by Diane E. Booton