Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
When:
Saturday, Aug 30, 2025 10:00a -
Sunday, Jan 04, 2026 5:00p
Saturday, Aug 30, 2025 10:00a -
Sunday, Jan 04, 2026 5:00p
Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, Photoworthy, University
Event website:
https://bit.ly/3Gy0a02
Celebrate a 20th-century artist whose innovative abstract drawings and paintings continue to inspire.
Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static offers a new look at the practice of acclaimed artist and educator Edna Andrade (1917–2008). Presenting a selection of drawings recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums by the artist’s estate, this exhibition emphasizes the central role of drawing as well as interdisciplinary exploration in her art and in modernist movements of the 20th century.
Andrade is best known for her geometric compositions, which were inspired by her interest in studying structures in nature, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, and art history. She carried this same set of wide-ranging inspirations and inquiry to her teaching. Her classroom bridged her own traditional artistic training of drawing from observation and the principles of the Bauhaus school that transformed U.S. arts curricula after faculty émigrés took up leadership positions in art and architecture programs, such as Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Andrade taught courses on color and design at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and was part of an intellectual salon called Form Forum, which brought mathematicians, artists, architects, and philosophers together in an exchange of ideas. Presented on a university campus, the exhibition explores the way that Andrade used drawing as a process of experimentation, channeling her own multifaceted approach to art and design.
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