Records, 1896-[ongoing].

Brooklyn Museum. Office of the Director.

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Philip N. Youtz was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1895. He received a B.A. degree from Amherst College in 1918, where he had served as curator of the Mather Art Museum since 1916, and an M.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1919. During the early 1920s he taught and practiced architecture in China and from 1926-29 taught at Columbia University and Columbia Teacher's College and was in charge of adult education programs in fine arts at the People's Institute. In 1930, he was appoi...

Buechner, Thomas S., 1926-2010

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Thomas S. Buechner, was appointed the founding director of The Corning Museum of Glass in 1950, six months before its public opening. Trained as an artist and working at the time as an exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he moved to Corning, developed a world-class glass collection and library, and led the institution to its public opening on May 19, 1951. Buechner established the Museum's academic journals, New Glass Review and The Journal of Glass Studies (both still publish...

Brooklyn Museum Art School.

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The Brooklyn Museum Art School was founded in 1941 in Brooklyn, NY and closed in 1985. A non-degree-granting institution, its chief purpose was the training of professional artists, although it also offered classes for amateurs. At its peak in the 1950s, the school was run by artist Augustus Peck and benefited from the GI Bill; continual efforts to either become accredited or to merge with an existing degree-granting institution began during this period and remained a concern until the School's ...

Ferber, Linda S.

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Roberts, Isabel Spaulding, 1911-

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Laurance Page Roberts was born in Bala Cynwyd, PA, 1 October 1907. His grandfather, George Brook Roberts (1833-1897) had been President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and his father, George Brinton Roberts, a coal magnate. Laurance Roberts attended the Montgomery School in Philadelphia and St George's School in Rhode Island before entering Princeton in 1925. He graduated from Princeton University in 1929 (magna cum laude), a classmate and friend of John D. Rockefeller III (1906-1978). After a year...

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children's Museum

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Collecting area: Materials about the Brooklyn Children's Museum. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155458226 The origins of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences extend back to 1823, with the founding of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library. The Library, located at the corner of Cranberry and Henry Streets in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, was established for the education and cultural enrichment of young tr...

Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929

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Frederic A. (Augustus) Lucas (1852-1929) was a museum curator and adminstrator. He was born in Plymouth, MA on March 25, 1852. He received an honorary D.Sc. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1909. Lucas began his career at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, NY. There he practiced taxidermy, osteology and museum technique. He transferred to the U.S. National Museum in 1882 and remained there until 1904. From 1904-1911 he was curator-in-chief of the Museum of the Brooklyn...

Schenck, Edgar Craig, 1909-1959

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Edgar Craig Schenck became director of the Albright Art Gallery on September 1, 1949. He left office July 1, 1955. His five-year term as art director was a transitional period between the directorships of his predecessors, who struggled to achieve and maintain regional and national standards of excellence, and that of his successor, Gordon M. Smith, under whose leadership the Gallery achieved international recognition. Schenck was born in Hot Springs, North Carolina in 1909. He earned his MFA fr...

Pratt Institute

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October 2nd, which was Charles Pratt's birthday, was for many years celebrated as Founder's Day at the Institute. From the description of Founder's Day record group, 1888-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155455515 Art school; Brooklyn, New York. From the description of Pratt Institute exhibition catalogs, 1916-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577345 Pratt Institute was founded in 1887 by industrialist Charles Pratt. Pratt was owner of Charles ...

Cooney, John D. (John Ducey), 1905-1982

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Botwinick, Michael

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Youtz, Philip Newell, 1895-1972

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Architect, inventor and educator, director of the Brooklyn Museum, and dean of the College of Architecture and Design of University of Michigan. From the description of Philip Newell Youtz papers, 1920-1972. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418711 Architect, curator, educator. Curator of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art (1930-1932), director, Brooklyn Museum (1934-1938), director, Pacific Area at the Golden Gate International Exposition,...

Buck, Robert T.,

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Robert Treat Buck, Jr. joined the Albright-Knox Art Gallery as assistant director in 1970. On July 1, 1973, he succeeded retiring director Gordon M. Smith. Buck's directorship of the Albright-Knox lasted exactly 10 years. During this time, he strengthened the Gallery's education programs and oversaw the publication of a major collection catalogue, Painting and Sculpture, from Antiquity to 1942 (1979). His term also included a considerable expansion in Buffalo Fine Arts Academy (B.F....

Kan, Michael

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Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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Founded 1843, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was the umbrella organization for four major Brooklyn institutions: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Several smaller organizations were also under its jurisdiction. From the description of Records, 1843-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122529756 The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (BIAS) evolved from the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library Assoc...

Henricksen, Albert N., 1890-1970.

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Brooklyn Museum

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The origins of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences extend back to 1823, with the founding of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library. The Library, located at the corner of Cranberry and Henry Streets in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, was established for the education and cultural enrichment of young tradesmen. In 1841, the Library relocated to the building of the Brooklyn Lyceum, an organization devoted to intellectual pursuits in the arts and sciences, at the corner of Washington and C...

Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922

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Alfred G. Mayor was born in Frederick County, Maryland in 1868, the son of Alfred M. Mayor, noted physicist. At his father's wishes, he obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1889. After graduation, he became an assistant in physics, first at Clark University and then at the University of Kansas. But his real love was natural history and so after three years he entered Harvard to pursue his doctorate. He became associated with Alpheus...

Goodyear, W.H. (William Henry), 1846-1923

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William Henry Goodyear (1846-1923) was an art and architectural historian and the Brooklyn Museum of Art's first Curator of Fine Arts from 1899-1923, an appointment he accepted soon after serving as curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1881-1888). In addition to his responsibilities of developing and maintaining the fine arts collection at the Museum, Goodyear published extensively on art history and pursued research in architectural history. He developed a theory, based on direc...

Hooper, Franklin William, 1851-1914

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Fox, William Henry, 1858-1952

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Doll, Jacob, 1847-

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Roberts, Laurance P.

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Laurance Page Roberts was born in Bala Cynwyd, PA, 1 October 1907. His grandfather, George Brook Roberts (1833-1897) had been President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and his father, George Brinton Roberts, a coal magnate. Laurance Roberts attended the Montgomery School in Philadelphia and St George's School in Rhode Island before entering Princeton in 1925. He graduated from Princeton University in 1929 (magna cum laude), a classmate and friend of John D. Rockefeller III (1906-1978). After a year...

Morris, Edward.

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CAMERON, DUNCAN F.

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Nagel, Charles

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