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Tai Mitsuji Wins Bowdoin Prize

January 22, 2024
We would like to congratulate HAA Graduate Student Tai Mitsuji for winning the 2023–2024 Bowdoin prize.

Presenting unseen and unpublished light-sheet enhanced images from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Tai Mitsuji’s paper demonstrates how Édouard Manet’s double-sided drawing, Barricade (1871), produced a historical palimpsest and portrait of both political change and stasis at the end of the Second French Empire and beginning of the Third Republic. It argues that Manet’s composition was itself a barricade, providing structure for the artist during a period of collective political... Read more about Tai Mitsuji Wins Bowdoin Prize
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Jessica Yin, HAA Class of '01

August 7, 2023

Jessica Yin graduated in 2001 with a concentration in HAA, and now works as a senior architect at the architectural firm SCB. “I focused on Architectural History and Theory, with the intention to apply to graduate school for Architecture. Thanks in large part to the guidance of HAA's academic advisor at the time, I was able to chart out a course for fulfilling prerequisites for application (including coursework at the GSD), as well as meet with current architecture students and working design professionals to better understand the field and profession. This was...

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Molly (Dorkin) Taylor, HAA Class of '03

August 3, 2023

Molly (Dorkin) Taylor (HAA Class of '03) completed her AB in History of Art art Harvard University, and attended the Courtauld Institute where she received her MA with a focus in Italian Renaissance Art. Molly then spent several years as a Specialist in OId Master Paintings at Christie's in New York before returning to academia, earning her PhD in British 18th century art at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Since 2013, Molly has been Head of Research at Dickinson Gallery in London, a private treaty sales dealership specialising in art from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.

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