Spotlight Tour: Child’s Play, with Ricardo Fernandes Garcia ’27

When:
Saturday, Sep 05, 2026 2:00p -
2:50p

Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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Admission:
FREE

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Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, History, Photoworthy

Event website:
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How to join: Check in at the Visitor Services desk; space is limited. 

Fee: This is a free event. 

Accessibility accommodations: If you would like to request accommodations for your visit, please contact Visitor Services at [email protected] or 617-495-9400. For more details about accommodations at the museums, please see the Accessibility page.


On this tour, Ricardo Fernandes Garcia ’27 will explore how representations of innocence have enabled artists to address conflict and war. The stops on the tour are Winslow Homer’s The Brush Harrow (1865), which depicts a scene from childhood; George Grosz’s Nutcracker(1931), which features a group of toys; and Joseph Cornell’s Midnight Carrousel (1954), which suggests the imagination at work.


Spotlight Tours are designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines. Each tour is focused on objects chosen by the student and provides visitors a unique, thematic view into the collections. Tours typically feature three works of art, embrace a conversational format, and last about 45 minutes. Open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm.

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