CAMBRIDGE, MA.- An exhibition featuring 76 Indian, Persian, and Turkish drawings from the collection of Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum will be on view at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum from March 19 through June 12, 2005.

From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection is one of a few major exhibitions ever to focus exclusively upon drawings from South Asia and the Middle East, a rich but understudied field of both Indian and Islamic art. The exhibition features works distinguished by their beauty and historical significance, and furthers the Harvard University Art Museums' commitment to providing scholars and visitors with opportunities to study and enjoy exceptional works of art.

From Mind, Heart, and Hand also celebrates the life and legacy of Stuart Cary Welch, a groundbreaking scholar and distinguished collector of Islamic and Indian art. A former curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, Welch taught Islamic and Indian art at Harvard and developed a collection considered to be one of the finest of its kind in private hands. Welch has made several major gifts of works of art from these regions to the Harvard University Art Museums' collection in recent years, securing its position as one of the primary repositories of Islamic and Indian drawings and paintings in the world.