Landscape with Tower 19th-20th century

Curator: Denman Waldo Ross's "Landscape with Tower," a delicate pencil drawing, resides here at the Harvard Art Museums. Editor: My first thought? Ethereal. It's so faint, like a memory sketched onto the page. Curator: Precisely. The lightness evokes a sense of transience, perhaps mirroring the fleeting nature of observation and experience within the depicted landscape. Editor: I’m feeling it speaks to power structures, right? The tower dominates, but it's softened by the hazy lines, almost apologetic. Curator: That’s interesting! I see that, and considering the historical context of towers as symbols of authority, the softened lines could suggest a questioning, or maybe a reimagining, of hierarchical power. Editor: A landscape holding its breath... Curator: Yes, a landscape open to interpretation. Editor: It seems like we both found something a little different in this landscape.