October 2018
In conjunction with Harriet’s Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professorship at New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, she presented a lecture entitled “The Medium is the Message: The Rise of Drawing in 19th Century France.”
August 2018
Harriet’s expertise informed the attribution of a sketchbook to Toulouse-Lautrec in “Fake or Fortune,” a BBC One television series.
May 2017
Harriet was invited to present the 2017 Distinguished Scholars Lecture for the Association of Print Scholars. Her talk was entitled “There’s More to the Story: Integrating Paul Gauguin’s Artistic Practice into an Exhibition Narrative.”
April 2016
“Traced, Transferred and Transformed Imagery in Paul Gauguin’s Graphic Works,” was a talk given at the Symposium and Scholar’s Day A New Lens on 19th-Century Art, co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Northwestern University Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU ACCESS).
In anticipation of Art Institute’s 2017 exhibition Paul Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, Harriet undertook in-depth research into the artist’s methods and materials. In this video, she explains and demonstrates how Gauguin’s innovations led to the production of a series of monotypes from the same matrix, each different from the other.
Harriet and her colleagues, Mary Broadway and Christina Taylor, demonstrate Gauguin’s transfer drawing, wood-block printing and monotype techniques. The videos were shown in the exhibition side-by-side with the artworks they reference and proved to be very popular with museum visitors.
