Collection of Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University


The oldest of Harvard’s three museums, the Fogg Museum, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts opened to the public in 1896.  The Museum is known for its holdings of Western paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints and drawings from the Middle Ages through present.  Strengths of the collection include Italian Renaissance, British Pre-Raphaelite, and French art from the nineteenth century along with nineteenth and 20th century American paintings and drawings.  The Wertheim Collection is one of the finest collections of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces and sculptures and includes works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent Van Gogh.


1882 Orphan Man in Sunday Clothes with Eye Bandage, Head Drawing Orphan-Man-in-Sunday-Clothes-with-Eye-Bandage,-Head
1886 Three Pairs of Shoes Painting Three-Pairs-of-Shoes
1888 Portrait of Patience Escalier Drawing Portrait-of-Patience-Escalier
1888 Harvest in Provence, at the Left Montmajour Watercolor Harvest-in-Provence,-at-the-Left-Montmajour
1888 Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) Painting Self-Portrait-(Dedicated-to-Paul-Gauguin)





Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
"I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true."