Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 7, 2003|Volume 32, Number 10

"Bologna Street Scene" (1998) by Harry Wasserman.

Koerner Center to showcase
emeritus faculty member's works

The Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty will host its first art exhibit this month, featuring watercolors by Harry Wasserman, professor emeritus of chemistry.

"Harry Wasserman: Watercolor Landscapes" will run through Dec. 5 at the center, which is located on the second floor of 149 Elm St. An opening reception will take place 5-7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10, at the center. The public is invited to attend.

Wasserman received early training in art in Boston at the New England School of Art, at the Copley Society, and privately with Boston painter and sculptor John Wilson. He studied watercolor techniques at the Vermont Studio Center, but is for the most part a self-taught painter.

Throughout his scientific career in teaching and research in the Yale chemistry department, Wasserman has remained active in the field of art. His watercolor and ink landscapes have illustrated the catalog covers and posters of Yale's Summer and Special Student Programs, and his paintings have been exhibited in shows sponsored by the New Haven Foundation, the Artists Signature Gallery, the Starlight Festival of Music, the Washington, Connecticut Art Association, the New Haven Graduate Club and in the Sandpiper Gallery in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Wasserman's work is held in the collections of the Graduate Club of New Haven, People's Bank of New Haven, Yale and Elsevier Science Ltd. in Oxford, England. The Barnes & Noble/Yale Bookstore in New Haven has recently incorporated a 65-foot-long mural in the ceiling façade above the store's café that reproduces Wasserman's impressionistic watercolor landscapes of Yale and New Haven.

The exhibit will be open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-noon and 2-5 p.m. For further information, call (203) 432-8227.

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