Archives of the Fogg Art Museum, 1895-1985 (inclusive).

Warburg, Felix Moritz, 1871-1937

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Felix M. Warburg was a prominent investment banker and philanthropist. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Warburg came to the United States in 1894. From 1896 he was with the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York. Warburg was an active supporter of various charities, including the New York Foundation, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee the Jewish Welfare Board, Institute of Musical Art, Teachers College, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Warburg founded the American Friends of the Hebre...

Harvard University Press

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Harvard University Press was established by the Harvard Corporation as a separate department of the University on January 13, 1913. It acted as both a printing and academic publishing organization until 1942, when the University Printing Office was re-established as a separate unit and Harvard University Press became responsible for only publishing activities. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in London, England. Every book published by the HUP must undergo review by an...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Art museum; Boston, Mass. From the description of Exhibition of water colors by American & European artists : February 26 to April 14, 1929 / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220207458 ...

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Greene, Belle da Costa, 1883-1950

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Belle da Costa Greene (December 13, 1883 – May 10, 1950) was the librarian to J. P. Morgan. After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian under his son, Jack Morgan. In 1924 the private collection was incorporated by the State of New York as a library for public uses, and the Board of Trustees appointed Greene first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Born Belle Marion Greener in Washington, D.C., Greene grew up there and in New York City. Her biographer Heidi Ardizzone lis...

Conant, Kenneth John, 1894-1984

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Kenneth John Conant (June 28, 1894 – March 3, 1984) was an American architectural historian and educator, who specialized in medieval architecture. Born in Neenah, Conant received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1915. He was considered the academic heir of Herbert Langford Warren, a teacher at Harvard, and through him, of the art historians Charles Eliot Norton and John Ruskin. He served in the 42nd Infantry Division of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I a...

Lehman, Arthur, 1873-1936

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Lehman, Arthur (01 June 1873–16 May 1936), investment banker, was born in New York City, the son of Mayer Lehman, a businessman, and Babette Newgass. Lehman’s father and two uncles in 1850 established Lehman Brothers, a merchandising business that later turned to banking. Lehman earned an A.B. from Harvard in 1894 and acquired business experience by working for four years at Lehman, Stern and Company in New Orleans....

Douglas, R. Langton (Robert Langton), 1864-1951

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Epithet: Director, National Gallery, Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x0002fa ...

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961

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Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland, on August 20, 1910. His father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, and his family moved to Michigan in 1921. After receiving a B.F.A. in Architecture from Yale University in 1934, Saarinen joined his father's firm (Saarinen, Saarinen and Swanson) and began work as an architect. After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen began to make a name for himself as an architect, started his own firm (Eero Saarinen and Associates), and established a reputation as ...

WASHBURN, GORDON BAILEY

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Frick, Helen.

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Huntington, Archer M. (Archer Milton), 1870-1955

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Hispanic scholar; philanthropist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [George] Kunz, President of the American Scenic and Historical Preservation Society (and expert on gems), 1915 May 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871082 Poet, editor, Hispanic scholar, art collector. From the description of Archer M. Huntington letter to John O'Hara Cosgrave [manuscript], 1910 August 31. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 754955300 ...

Post, Chandler Rathfon, 1881-1959

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Post graduated from Harvard in 1904 and taught fine arts and languages at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Chandler Post, ca. 1920-1940 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973155 ...

Birnboym, Marṭin

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Robinson, Frederick Bruce

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Perkins, F. Mason

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Wertheim, Maurice

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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

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Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, editor, and teacher. He was a professor of the history of fine arts at Harvard. Eliot Norton was his son. From the guide to the Charles Eliot Norton letters to Eliot Norton, 1867-1908., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author, editor, and educator. From the description of Letter to Edwin D. Mead [manuscript], 1881 May 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814472 ...

Blume, Peter F

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Norton, Richard, 1950-....

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Loeb, James, 1867-1933

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Webster, Herman A. (Herman Armour), 1878-1970

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Etcher, painter; Paris, France, New York, N.Y.; b. 1878; d. 1970; Webster and Flint were friends. From the description of Herman Armour Webster letters from William Flint, 1947-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 317592539 Etcher, painter; New York, N.Y. and Paris, France. From the description of Herman Armour Webster papers, 1900-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594438 ...

Stout, George L. (George Leslie)

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George Leslie Stout (1897-1978) was an art consultant, conservator, and museum director from Menlo Park, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with George Leslie Stout, 1978 Mar. 10-21 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613315438 Art consultant, conservator, museum director (Menlo Park, Calif.); b. 1897; d. 1978. From the description of George Leslie Stout interviews, 1978 Mar. 10-Mar. 21 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Pach, Walter, 1883-1958

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Pach: Artist, critic, historian, writer, art consultant, curator; New York, N.Y. Instrumental in organizing the Armory Show, 1913. Winthrop: patron; New York, N.Y. His collection, left to Harvard University, included early American portraits, drawings by English and French artists, and Chinese sculpture. From the description of Walter Pach letter to Grenville Winthrop, 1933 Apr. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84852249 American artist and author. From the desc...

Mongan, Agnes

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Agnes Mongan, art historian, curator and director at Fogg Art Museum. From the description of Oral history interview with Agnes Mongan, 1979 June 19-Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657039442 From the description of Agnes Mongan interviews, 1979 June 19-Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397418 b. 1905, Somerville, Mass.; d. Sept. 15, 1996, Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum o...

Phillips, Duncan, 1886-1966

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Cook, Walter S.

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Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965

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Harvard Professor of Museology. From the description of Lecture notes and related manuscripts, 1926-1955. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80369439 Professor of fine arts. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Joseph Sachs : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726511 Paul Joseph Sachs, the first associate director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and a Harvard profes...

Slive, Seymour, 1920-....

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Goldman, Hetty, 1881-1972

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Barr, Alfred J.

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American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic & Historic Monuments in Europe.

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Pope, Arthur, 1880-

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Pope taught in the Fine Arts Dept., Harvard University, from 1906 to 1949 and served as Director of the Fogg Museum from 1946 to 1948. From the description of Papers of Arthur Pope, 1931-1970 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973265 Artist. Pope taught in the Fine Arts Dept., Harvard University, from 1906 to 1949 and served as Director of the Fogg Museum from 1946 to 1948. He was a student and colleague of Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935), who lectured on...

Offner, Richard, 1889-1965

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Kimball, Sydney Fiske, 1888-1955.

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Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943

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Lawyer and art connoisseur. Educated at Harvard (Class of 1886). Maintained residences in New York and Lenox, Mass. Made many gifts to the Fogg Art Museum during his lifetime, and left his entire collection to the Museum in 1943. From the description of Papers of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1885-1943 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 234360169 Grenville Lindall Winthrop, lawyer and art collector, was born in New York, N.Y. on February 11, 1864. He received ...

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930

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Moore taught at Harvard, 1871-1909, and was the director of the Fogg Art Museum, 1896-1909. From the description of Composition : concerning painting : manuscript, undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612867010 From the description of Romanesque architecture : manuscript, undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612867050 Artist, professor, architectural historian and first Director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Charles Herbert M...

Rosenwald, Lessing J. Lessing Julius 1891-1979

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Collector, patron. From the description of Lessing J. Rosenwald interview, 1970 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80812816 Background: Rosenwald acquired photographs of each woodcut in 21 copies of the Strassburg 1496 Terence (Goff T-94), compared them, and documented the variants. His article analysing the production of Grüninger's Terence was never completed. Rosenwald sought the advice of Rudolf Hirsch, whose three pages of comments accompany the material. ...

Agassiz, George R. (George Russell), 1862-1951

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Warburg, Paul.

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Held, Julius S. (Julius Samuel), 1905-2002

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The American art historian Julius Samuel Held (1905-2002) was renowned for his scholarship in 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, and an authority on the works of Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. Educated in pre-war Germany, Held emigrated in 1934 to the United States where he pursued an academic career at Barnard College, Columbia University. Held also lectured and taught at other colleges and art institutions in the United States. From the description o...

Dumbarton Oaks.

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Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss donated their home Dumbarton Oaks and its library and collections to Harvard University in 1940 to serve as a research center in Byzantine studies. In 1969, upon the death of Mildred Bliss, her Garden Library collection of rare and modern materials was willed to Harvard, to become a part of the over-all institution of Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University. From the description of Garden Library collection, ca. 1500-1900 (inclusive...

Lehman, Robert W.

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Thacher, John

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Coolidge, John, 1913-1995

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Coolidge earned his Harvard AB in 1935. He was the director of the Fogg Art Museum from 1948-1968. From the description of Notes in Fine Arts 1c and 1d, 1931-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075975 From the description of Notes in History 1, 1931-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075976 Coolidge, John, 1913, Educator and director of the Fogg Art Museum, 1948-1968. From the description of Oral history interview with John C...

Norton, Elizabeth G.

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Norton was the daughter of Charles Eliot Norton. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1940. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 182787395 ...

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer, founder of the Photo-Secession Group, gallery owner, and editor and publisher of photography magazines, most notably, Camera Work. Frank Hermann was an American painter, who spent most of his career in Germany, where he associated with several avant-garde art groups. Childhood friends, Stieglitz and Herrmann were schoolmates, spent time together when Stieglitz was in Europe, and visited each other in the United States when Herrmann returned in 1919....

Norton, Sara, 1864-1922.

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Macleish, Archibald

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...

Constable, W. G. 1887-

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Schroeder, Eric

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Schroeder, an English-born author, was the Keeper of Islamic Art at the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. From the description of Papers, 1948-1969. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122412034 From the guide to the Eric Schroeder papers, 1948-1969., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eric Schroeder (1904-1971) was Keeper of Islamic Art at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (1938-1970). From the description of Pa...

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

Robbins, Daniel.

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Assistant curator of the Guggenheim Museum. From the description of Correspondence with Edward F. Fry, 1964-1969. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 212906070 Daniel J. Robbins was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1932. He attended the University of Chicago as an undergraduate, receiving an A.B. in 1951 at age 19. Robbins then attended Yale University, where he received an M.A. in Art History in 1955. He taught at Indiana University for one a...

Abbott, Jeremiah, 1790-1879

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Sachs, Arthur.

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Warner, Langdon, 1881-1955

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Warner graduated from Harvard in 1903 and taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Langdon Warner, 1926-1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069994 These rubbings were presented to Harvard by scholars and collectors Langdon Warner, Lawrence Sickman, Hamilton Bell, Adrian Rübel, and others. Langdon Warner collected many rubbings in north and northwest China during two Fogg Museum-sponsored expeditions in 1923-1924 and 1925, and he donated ot...

Mower, Martin.

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Pope, Arthur Upham, 1881-1969

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Epithet: American orientalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x00028e Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969) was an American authority on Persian art and antiquities. During the 1920s and 1930s, he organized international exhibitions of Persian art; advised museums, dealers and purchasers of Iranian art objects; edited the multi-volume Survey of Persian Art (published in 1938); and conducted archaeological exped...

Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924

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American collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Fenway Court," to an unidentified recipient, [1908?] Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269568468 Art collector and patron; Mrs. Jack Gardner. From the description of Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection, [18--]-[19--]. (University of Mobile Library). WorldCat record id: 70925322 Art historian, critic, collector, and teacher; Flo...

Kuhn, Charles L. (Charles Louis), 1901-

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Charles Louis Kuhn (1901-1985) earned his Harvard Ph.D. 1929. He taught at Harvard from 1931-1968. From 1930-1968 he was Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum (which was the Germanic Museum from 1901-1950); he served as chair of the Dept. of Fine Arts from 1949-1953. Kuhn's World War II military service involved an assignment to rescue art in Europe. From the description of Papers of Charles Louis Kuhn, 1927-1986. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77065955 Charles S....

Bartlett, Frederick C.

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Siple, Walter H.

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Loeser, Charles, Alexander

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Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948

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American art critic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [New York], 10 Apirl 1940 and 22 March 1942, to Harry [Harkness Flagler], 1940 Apr. 10 and 22 March 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564650 Royal Cortissoz (1869-1968), respected American art critic, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He trained as an architect, spending six years working at the firm of McKim, Mead, and White before embarking on his journalism career. Cortissoz served as the art...

Morey, Charles Rufus, 1877-1955

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Morey was an American art historian and chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University (1924-1945). From the description of Charles Rufus Morey papers, 1900-1954 (bulk 1924-1945) (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 177441878 ...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Rockefeller Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation was established in May 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, by act of the New York State Legislature, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world". From its earliest years, several separate organizations and divisions have carried on the Foundation's work in carefully selected fields. In 1913, the International Health Board (originally the International Health Commission) was formed in order to extend the work of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradi...

Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972

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Franklin Watkins (1894-1972) was a painter from Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Oral history interview with Franklin Watkins, 1971 Aug. 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596773 Painter; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Franklin C. Watkins papers, 1909-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80156589 From the description of Franklin Watkins interview, 1971 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195954 ...

Coletti, Joseph.

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Dale, Chester, 1883-1962

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Chester Dale (1883-1962) was an art collector in New York, N.Y. Dale collected 19th and 20th century art works. From the description of Chester Dale papers, 1897-1971 (bulk 1950-1968). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122454232 Chester Dale (1883-1962) was an art collector in New York, N.Y. Dale collected 19th and 20th century art works. From the description of Chester Dale papers concerning George Bellows, 1919-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat re...

Norton, Grace, 1834-1926

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Grace Norton (1834-1926) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Andrew Norton and Catherine Eliot Norton, and the sister of American author and Harvard professor, Charles Eliot Norton. She was privately educated in Cambridge, and developed a great love for the literature of France, especially that of the French essayist, Montaigne. Norton became a Montaigne expert, translating, writing, and lecturing on his works, as well as those of other French authors. Many of her articles appe...

Rogers, Meyric R. (Meyric Reynold), 1893-1972

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Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961

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American author who wrote about woodcuts and about the history of books. From the description of Letter, 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122480247 From the guide to the William Mills Ivins letter, 1925, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) William Mills Ivins, graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law School, Curator of Prints and Acting Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recipient of an honorary degree from Yale in 1946, author of How Prints Loo...

Francis, Harry S.

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Duell, Prentice, 1894-1960.

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Architect, archaeologist. Educated at Harvard (MAR, 1924). Field director of Sakkarah Expedition in Egypt (1930-1936). Research fellow at Fogg Art Museum, Harvard (1939-1960). From the description of Papers of Prentice Van Walbeck Duell, 1894-1960 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 229474739 Sources: Harvard Alumni Directory, Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue, and NCAB 44:226-7 (1962). ...

Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978

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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist, educator and public servant. Conant taught chemistry at Harvard from 1917-1933; he served as Harvard's president from 1933-1953. He was the national director of defense research from 1941-1945, and was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb. He continued as President of Harvard until 1953, at which time he was made United States High Commissioner for Germany. When allied military occupation of Germany ended in 1955, Conant became the U.S. A...

Gilman, Margaret, 1883-1969.

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Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969

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Relation of Alexander Forbes (1882-1965). From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1959. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 176629718 Forbes graduated from Harvard in 1895. From the description of Notes in Zoology 1, 1893. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073959 From the description of Notes and midyear thesis in Philosophy 9, 1894-1895. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074017 From t...

Paff, Adam E.

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Gettens, Rutherford J. (Rutherford John)

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Fogg Art Museum.

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The Index of American Design was a project of the research division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration which produced approximately 20,000 reproductions (photographs and original drawings) and classifications of a wide variety of American art, paintings, sculptures, handicrafts, and folk art. From the description of Records relating to Index of American Design Exhibition, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122404372 Founded in 1891, through the...

McIlhenny, Henry R.

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Canady, John.

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Duveen, Joseph Duveen, Baron, 1869-1939

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Allerton, William S., 1925-

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Sarton, George, 1884-1956

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Historian of science, George Alfred Leon Sarton was born on August 31, 1884, in Ghent, Belgium. He studied the natural sciences at the University of Ghent, and received his D.Sc. in 1911. Escaping to England before World War I, Sarton then came to the United States in 1915. After spending some time in lecturing positions, Sarton came to Harvard University in 1920, was made a full professor there in 1940 and retired in 1951 when he was made professor emeritus. He was founder of th...