Harvard Gifted Munch Treasure Trove
February 5 2025
Picture: Harvard Art Museums
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Harvard Art Museums have announced that they have received a gift of 62 prints and 2 paintings by Edvard Munch from the collection of Philip A. ’37 and Lynn G. Straus. The works will feature in an upcoming exhibition which opens on 7th March 2025.
According to their website:
“It is hard to overestimate the significance of Munch’s painting ‘Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones).’ Capturing the tension between proximity and distance — spatial as well as emotional — the work addresses the universal theme of the human condition,” said Lynette Roth, the Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at the Harvard Art Museums. “The Strauses had generously loaned their painting for the inaugural installation of the renovated Harvard Art Museums building that opened in November 2014, and we are thrilled to be able to teach with and display it alongside the other significant paintings from their collection going forward.”
