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Recent Gift of 15 Photos Allows MFA to Show Full Story of Ritts’ Career BOSTON, MA (March 13, 2015)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), flashes…
Massachusetts State House Time Capsule and Contents On View for One Month Only at MFA Boston
New Staff Highlight: Melissa deFriesse [[{"fid":"383896","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_title[und][0][value]":"Melissa…
New Exhibitions, Art in Bloom and an Array of Programs Highlight Vibrant Spring Calendar BOSTON, MA (March 20, 2014)—In celebration of the exhibition…
BOSTON, MA (December 26, 2013)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has acquired The Seven Last Words (1898) by F. Holland Day (1864–1933). Widely…
April 19 Free Day Includes To Boston With Love Installation, Quilts and Color Exhibition and America 4 Boston Prayer Canvas
JENNIFER SWOPE: I think of the color wheel as a model or a diagram of all the colors we can see. The color wheel is really well designed for teaching about color, because it breaks things down into primary and secondary colors, and really shows you how colors combine, or the basic colors, what we call the primary colors, which are red, yellow, and blue, are combined to make the secondary colors, which are green, orange, and purple.
GERALD ROY: A very important quilt in the exhibit is the Yellow and White Baskets. Through my years of teaching color, yellow has always been probably the most difficult, not the most important, but the most difficult color to use. And it’s because the light refractive quality of yellow is greater than any of the other colors in the color wheel. Yellow green, yellow orange, orange, have strong, strong refractive qualities. But yellow has the greatest.
Portraits by Van Dyck, Lely, Reynolds, Lawrence and Constable on View in MFA's European Galleries