Female Head in Profile 19th-20th century

Editor: This is Denman Waldo Ross's "Female Head in Profile," held here at the Harvard Art Museums. It's a small, delicate drawing. It looks so serene, almost like a Renaissance study. What do you make of it? Curator: It whispers, doesn't it? The delicacy invites us closer, into her private world. Notice how the soft graphite suggests form rather than dictating it. Feels like a memory, or a half-formed thought, doesn't it? Editor: It does! Almost like she could disappear any moment. Curator: Exactly! And in that fleeting quality, perhaps, lies its enduring power. It reminds us that beauty often resides in the ephemeral, the ungraspable. Editor: I'll remember that. Thanks! Curator: My pleasure. Art is life and life is art, let's keep appreciating them both.