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Jean Vallon

Jean Vallon
Facilities Coordinator
Facilities Planning and Management, Harvard Art Museums

A solemn young girl with black beadscarf and plain long red dress holds a baby looking to the right with a distressed expression as they ride in an open truck, a yellow mattress and white bag of belongings behind them in the truck. A road and a row of white and light red one story houses are in the background.

Journey

Acrylic on coated paper

Painted from a news photo of young refugees during the US conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

A dark grey silhouette of a flying swallow flies past a row of simple dark grey cedar trees which form a sort of border across the lower left third of the page.

Border Crossing

Pencil on paper

This was inspired by a wish that people could cross back and forth across borders as simply as migrating birds.

Contact Information

jean_vallon@harvard.edu

School/Unit

Harvard Allied Institutions, Affiliates, and Agencies