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  • Digital Publication

RISD STEAM/Discovery Through Juxtaposition

  • Article

The Dramatic Effects of Subtlety

A Fifteenth-Century Virgin and Child
Drawing depicting a young child lying on a bed, the eyes and chin with deep shadows and relies on the brightness of the paper to emphasize the nose and brow. The effect of lamplight is suggested by the color of the paper as revealed through black veils of charcoal.
  • Article

American Drawings and Watercolors / Eastman Johnson's Child in Bed

Fashionable dress women walks her dog in Boston Public Garden
  • Article

American Drawings and Watercolors / Childe Hassam's Woman and Mastiff in the Boston Public Garden and Diamond Cove, Appledore

  • Article

Wood in the Middle Ages

A young girl in a red scarf over a blue dress gazes through a window out into a snowy scene.
  • Article

A Snowy Day in Paris

  • Books

Selection VII

American Painting from the Museum's Collection, c.1800-1930

Wood Sculptures at RISD

Excavating the Storage Room
College Faculty Teaching

During the Fall of 2015, Brown’s graduate students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture undertook an investigation of the wood sculptures in the RISD Museum collections.

Wood in the Middle Ages

College Student Voices

During the Fall of 2015, Sheila Bonde’s graduate students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University undertook an investigation of the wood sculptures in the RISD Museum collections. This multi-author paper includes some of their findings.

Object Lessons

Curator Portfolio

Object Lessons is an ongoing video series on the RISD Museum website that focuses on works in the collection and offers new perspectives.