Exhibit: Victorian Visionary: John Ruskin and the Realization of the Ideal
Date and Time
January 14 - April 13, 2019
All day
Location
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Best known as an artist and art historian, John Ruskin (1819-1900) became an outspoken social critic of the Industrial Age and a champion of diverse progressive causes, ranging from affordable housing to land conservation. To mark the bicentenary of his birth, this exhibition explores Ruskin’s vision of a better world through original artwork, autograph letters, association copies, and illustrated books, in addition to other primary resources recently donated to Houghton Library by R. Dyke Benjamin, Harvard Class of 1959.