Splashes of eye-catching color brighten campus scenes
Rose Lincoln
Harvard Staff Photographer
2 min read
Harvard and crimson are synonymous. But all over campus and in nearby Harvard Square, brighter shades of red abound, too, in a Science Center mural, at bike racks and in traffic, on art museum walls, and in tourists’ garb.
Cherry red couches — and a suspended whale skeleton — invite conversation in the Northwest building basement. Seven years of Housing Day T-shirts at Adams House favor red.
Finding your bike is easy when it’s red. A street off Brattle Square is nearly all gray.
Red shapes punctuate Constantino Nivola’s 1954 landscape mural “Olivetti Showroom Wall Relief” in the Science Center.
A gilded eagle perched in the organ loft of Memorial Church reflects tones from the red carpet. Shafts of sunlight illuminate prayer books at Memorial Church.