In this monthly gallery experience, the Clark invites visitors to look contemplatively as a way to engage with works of art from the museum’s collection.
With a gentle tone that encourages investigation and audience participation, the group explores one or two artworks with the help of a museum educator, working together to explore its meaning, find understanding, and raise questions. Distinct from a conventional gallery talk, Reflections provides an opportunity for close-looking and introspection, the museum says.
Yoshida Hiroshi’s Kagurazaka Street gleams on a wet night in an ukiyo-e woodblock print at the Clark Art Institute.
A woman rides side-saddle on a white horse along a ridge in Winslow Homer’s painting, The Bridle Path, White Mountains, at The Clark Art Institute. Press image courtesy of the museum
Kawase Hasui’s ‘Part of the Byōdō-in Temple at Uji’ holds a reflection in clear green jade-water in an ukiyo-e woodblock print in Japanese Impressions at the Clark Art Institute.
Analia Saban’s Teaching a Cow How to Draw, one of the six new works in the Clark Art Institute’s first outdoor sculpture show, Ground/Work, plays with the form of a split-rail fence.
Rembrandt van Rijn’s ‘Man Reading’ sits against the light. Image with permission from the Clark Art Institute.
Hashimoto Okiie, Young Girl with Iris, 1952. Image courtesy of the Clark Art Institute