Papers, 1867-2005.

Chiera, Edward, 1885-1933

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Edward Chiera (August 5, 1885 – June 20, 1933) was an archaeologist, Assyriologist, and scholar of religions and linguistics. Born in Rome, Italy, Chiera trained as a theologian at the Crozer Theological Seminary and completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He was faculty of the University of Pennsylvania until 1927, at which time he joined the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He conducted archaeological excavations in Nuzi (modern Iraq). A pre-eminent scholar o...

Warburg, Frieda Schiff, 1876-1958

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Frieda Schiff Warburg was born on February 3, 1876, in New York City, New York. A member of New York City's German Jewish elite, her father was a preeminent Jewish communal leader and head of the banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and her maternal grandfather was a founder of the banking firm. She had an opulent private education, although her formal education ended after she graduated from the Brearley School. Warburg was a philanthropist and patron of the arts. She was active in the Young Women...

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...

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The main building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a new art reference library, named the Thomas J. Watson Library, was designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford and Forbes in consultation with the Museum. Severud-Elstad-Krueger were the structural engineers; Krey and Hunt were the mechanical engineers. The Library formally opened Jan. 26, 1965. It occupies three floors: the two lower floors comprise s...

Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich, 1874-1948

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Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller (b. Abigail Greene Aldrich) was born on October 26, 1874, in Providence, Rhode Island, the fourth child of Abby Pearce Chapman and Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich. Her father served in the state House of Representatives, was Speaker of the House, and served as a U.S. Senator, including as chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Abby grew up in Providence and Warwick Neck in Rhode Island and in Washington, DC. Abby received her early education from Quaker governesses. At...

Sickman, L. C. S. (Laurence C. S.)

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Laurence Sickman began his long association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1931 as an advisor on Oriental art. He served as curator of Oriental art from 1935 to 1973. He was appointed vice-director of the Museum in 1947 and was promoted to director in 1953. He remained as director until he retired in 1977. From the description of Laurence Sickman papers, 1898-1989. (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 122561071 ...

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...

Worcester art museum

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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 ...

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

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The Peabody Museum, founded in 1866 by George Peabody, has sent over 800 expeditions to all parts of the world. These expeditions, together with gifts and purchases, have resulted in the amassing of a comprehensive collection of ethnological, archaeological and somatological materials. From the description of Records of the Museum, 1851-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972599 Built in 1876, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest museums devoted ...

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...

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986

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Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art.Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. By the time she graduated from high school in 1905, O’Keeffe had determined to make her way as an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. Th...

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...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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In 1921, the Pennsylvania Museum of Art (later renamed the Philadelphia Museum of Art) held a special loan exhibition of colonial silver, mostly American pieces, with some European ones. A catalog of the exhibit was published as Bulletin number 68 in June 1921. There are no clues as to who assembled this special volume. From the description of Bulletin - Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261233369 Art museum; Philadelphia, Pen...

Ayasofya Muzesi

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Bohn, J. Lloyd.

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Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 1880-

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Fewkes, Vladimir.

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Rübel Asiatic Art Research Bureau.

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Warren, Gretchen Osgood.

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Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943.

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Sir Aurel Stein was a Hungarian-born scholar and explorer of the Orient, chiefly in the service of the British Empire. On several archaeological expeditions to Central Asia, his findings and observations coupled with the hoards of documents and art objects he appropriated significantly enhanced Western understanding of the area. From the description of Aurel Stein letters to Mr. Colles, 1911. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51651718 ...

Duveen, Joseph Duveen, Baron, 1869-1939

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Newberry, John S. (John Stoughton), 1910-1964

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Goldschmidt, Adolph, 1863-1944

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Robinson, Edward, 1858-1931

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Jayne, Horace H. F. (Horace Howard Furness), 1898-1975

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Sir Leonard Woolley directed the excavations at Ur in southern Iraq from 1922 to 1934 for the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. As part of this involvement, the University of Pennsylvania Museum sent Leon Legrain, Curator of the Babylonian Section, as a cuneiformist during the 1924–1925 and 1925–1926 seasons. Most of the records of the Ur expedition are located at the British Museum. The Museum Archives hold only a few records. From the...

Krinkin, Lydia Nadajena.

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Burroughs, Bryson, 1869-1934

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Curator of Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the description of Autograph letters signed (6), dated : New York and North Haven, Maine, 1907-15, to [Harry Harkness] Flagler (including 2 to Anne [Flagler]), 1907 July 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674023 Museum curator, painter; New York, N.Y. Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909-1934. From the description of Bryson Burroughs papers, 1915-1922 and [u...

American Academy in Rome

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Art school; Rome, Italy. Organized in 1894 as the American School of Architecture in Rome. In 1897, it was dissolved and its assets turned over to the newly established American Adademy in Rome, not a traditional school, but a place where architects, painters, and sculptors could work in close association. After merging with the American School of Classical Studies (f. 1895) on the last day of 1912, the American Academy in Rome consisted of the School of Fine Arts and th...

Duveen Brothers

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The Duveen Brothers firm, notable art dealers with branches in London, Paris, and New York, were active in the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. Under the guidance of Joseph Duveen, and assisted by art experts, most notably Bernard Berenson, Duveen Brothers monopolized the American art market for five decades. Edward Fowles was president of the firm after Joseph Duveen's death, and served until 1964, when he sold Duveen stock and other property to Norton Simon. From the...

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...

Scott, Henry Edwards, 1900-

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Henry Edwards Scott Jr. was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 22, 1900 and died October 24, 1990 in Chilmark, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1922 with a degree in Engineering, and did graduate work in fine arts at Harvard from 1922-1924. From 1924-1926, Scott worked as a tutor for the Fine Arts Department, later becoming head tutor in Venetian Painting at Harvard. He eloped with Margaret (Peggy) Gustin in 1926, and went on to teach at many institutions, including...

Whittemore, Thomas, 1871-1950

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Ives, Herbert Eugene, 1882-1953

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Biographical Notes Frederic Eugene Ives 1856, Feb. 17 Born, Litchfield, Conn. 1866 Moved to Norfolk, Conn. 1868 Ended formal schooling 1868 ...

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...

Forbes, Margaret Laighton.

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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 ...

Durham, Charles W.

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Picture restorer. From the description of Letter signed : to Belle Greene, 1929 Nov. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270733828 ...

Harvard University. Germanic Museum

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Merritt was chairman of the department of music at the museum. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1944. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863418 ...

Kimball, Sydney Fiske, 1888-1955.

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Lake, Kirsopp, 1872-1946

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Lake taught early Christian literature and history at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Kirsopp Lake, 1913. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973087 Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946) was a British biblical and patristic scholar and textual critic. He was born in Southampton, England, and died in South Pasadena, California. He was ordained into the Church of England and was curate of St. Mary the Virgin (Oxford, England) from 1897 to 1904, and was then a professor o...

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 ...

Widener, Joseph E. (Joseph Early), 1872-1943

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Art collector and patron; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Joseph E. Widener letter, 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122396942 ...

Puyvelde, Leo van, 1882-1965

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Henríquez Ureña, Pedro, 1884-1946

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Byzantine institute of America

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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...

Rosenberg, Jakob, 1893-1980

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Jakob Rosenberg was curator of prints at the Fogg Art Museum. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1940-1970. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155899037 Rosenberg (1893-1980) taught fine arts at Harvard and was Curator of Print Department, Fogg Art Museum. From the description of Papers of Jakob Rosenberg, 1938-1978 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973331 German art historian primari...

American association of museums

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Abbott, Jeremiah, 1790-1879

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Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, 1879-

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American poet. From the description of Frederick Clapp papers, 1938-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872491 Frederick Mortimer Clapp was an American art historian, educator, and poet, and the first director of The Frick Collection from 1936 to 1951. He was born in New York City in 1879, and attended the City College of New York (1896-1899) and then Yale (1899-1902) receiving a B.A. and M.A. He taught at City College and the University of California extens...

Jacques Seligmann & co.

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Art gallery at 5th Avenue and 55th St., and 705 5th Ave., New York, N.Y. From the description of Jacques Seligmann & Co. exhibition catalogs, 1916-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122395108 Jacques Seligmann & Co. were international art galleries in New York City and Paris, France. Founded in 1880 in Paris, France and closed in 1978. The company's clients included most of the major American and European art collectors of the era, and the ...

Miles, Emily Winthrop

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Allerton, William S., 1925-

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Rubenstein, Lewis W. (Lewis William), 1908-

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Lewis Rubenstein is a painter, printmaker, and teacher at Vassar College. His wife Erica is an art historian, whose Ph.D. thesis at Harvard, Taxpayers Murals, related to New Deal murals. From the description of Lewis W. and Erica Beckh Rubenstein interview, 1993 Feb. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220206061 Rubentstein, Lewis W., 1905, Painter, printmaker, and teacher of Poughkeepsie, NY. Lewis Rubenstein is a painter, printmaker, and teacher at ...

Pennsylvania Museum of Art

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Loeser, Charles, Alexander

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American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas

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Graeff, Walter

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Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909

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American architect Russell Sturgis (1836-1909) was a leading figure in the development of architectural criticism at the turn of the 20th century. During his formative years in New York, Sturgis gained an appreciation for architectural history and modern design. An advocate of the American Pre-Raphaelites, Sturgis sought much inspiration in the written works of English architect and critic John Ruskin. Upon his return to New York after extensive travel abroad, Sturgis opened his own architectura...

Starr, Richard F. S. (Richard Francis Strong), 1900-

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Oppenheim, Max, Freiherr von, 1860-1946

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Addison Gallery of American Art.

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Scott & Fowles (Firm)

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Art gallery at 667, 590 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y. From the description of Scott & Fowles exhibition catalogs and invitation, [ca. 1915-1917]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502764 From the description of Scott & Fowles exhibition catalogs and invitation, [ca. 1915-1917]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821089 Commercial art gallery; New York, N.Y. Now defunct. Originally established around 1905. Closed ca. 1943. Fro...

Chapin, Cornelia, 1893-1972

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Sculptor. Chapin's work, notably stone models of birds and animals, was exhibited around the U.S. and in Paris beginning in 1930. She learned the art of direct carving from Mateo Hernandez in Paris in 1934, was the only foreign and female sculptor elected to the Societaire Salon d'Automne, Paris (1936), and was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Design in 1945. She won many awards and prizes for her sculpture in the 1930s and 1940s. From the description of Papers, 1877-1...

Gettens, Rutherford J. (Rutherford John)

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Wiles, Bertha Harris, 1896-

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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...

Harvard Society for Contemporary Art

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The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art was founded in February 1929 by three undergraduates: Lincoln Kirstein, Edward Warburg, and John Walker, with the aid of the Fogg Museum. The purpose of the Society was to hold exhibitions of "frankly debatable" contemporary art in various media. The Society presented some of the first exhibitions of contemporary art in the United States, including the first exhibition of art of the Bauhaus while that school was still active in Germany. The Society disban...

Carnegie corporation of New York

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The World Center for Women's Archives was created by Mary Ritter Beard in 1936 to collect material on women in the United States and abroad on the grounds that without documents women would continue to be excluded from written history. A secondary purpose was to encourage research an teaching on women's history. The WCWA was disolved in 1941 due to financial problems, and the outbreak of World War II; collections were distributed to Radcliffe and Smith Colleges, and other universities and librar...

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...

Bingham, Henry S.

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Maclagan, Eric Robert Dalrymple, 1879-1951

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Stradivarius Quartet

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The Stradivarius Quartet played on four Stradivarius instruments during the mid-late twentieth century. Two of its members were formerly members of the Flonzaley Quartet, a famed American music circle. These members are: Alfred Pochon, second violin, and Nicolas Moldavan, viola. The other two members are Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin, and Gerald Warburg, violoncello. ...

Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 1885-1940

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Swedish architect and teacher. From the description of Erik Gunnar Asplund architectural drawings and documents, ca. 1914-1940 [microform]. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 416095602 ...

Spiridon, Joseph ca. -1930

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M. Knoedler & Co

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Founded in 1848 as the New York branch of the French firm Goupil & Cie before the creation of most museums in the United States, the Knoedler Gallery was able to play a central role as a conduit for the masterworks that established American collections. The firm's archive traces the development of the once provincial American art market into one of the world's leading art centers and the formation of the private art collections that would ultimately establish many of the nation's leading art mus...

Opdycke, Leonard, 1895-1977

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Opdycke graduated from Harvard in 1917 and taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Leonard Opdycke, 1928-1961 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973259 ...

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924

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Jay Hambidge: mathematician, illustrator; Mary Hambidge: weaver, administrator. From the description of Jay and Mary Crovatt Hambidge papers, 1841-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552405 ...

Laurie, A. P. (Arthur Pillans), 1861-1949

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Epithet: of Loughton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x0000b0 ...

Museum of modern art New York, N.Y.

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Died 1989. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Titus, Roy V. : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83119924 Art museum; New York, N.Y. From the description of Museum of Modern Art first loan exhibition : November 8th to December 7, 1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557713 d. 2001. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Matisse, Maria-Gaetana : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unk...

Thacher, John

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Demus, Otto

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Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969

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Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919

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Charles Fairfax Murray, English artist and art connoisseur. From the guide to the Charles Fairfax Murray manuscript material : 1 item, 1879, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), was born in London but lived a significant portion of his adult life in Italy. He was an artist who did work for John Ruskin, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. Murray is sometimes iden...

White, William Augustus, 1843-1927

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White was the senior partner in a firm of New York City investment bankers, who began serious book collecting in 1885. He collected works by William Blake, Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights and created important collections of Shakespeare and Americana. From the description of Library accession books, manuscript, 1863-1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612236412 Epithet: of Brooklyn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Des...

Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott

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Architectural firm hired by New York Hospital. From the description of New York Hospital building specifications, 1929-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86158566 ...

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....

Marle, Raimond ˜vanœ 1888-1936

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Adolphus Busch Hall

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Warburg, Gerald Felix, 1902-1971.

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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...

Siple, Walter H.

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DeWild, A, Martin.

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Pelliott, Paul, 1878-1945.

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Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958

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Epithet: art historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x0002d7 Valentiner was a museum director, writer, and art historian. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany. Director, Detroit Institute of Art, 1924-1946, Director-Consultant, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1946-1954, Director, J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, Calif., 1954, Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1955-1958. Editor, Art ...

Norton, Edith.

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Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

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American ballet director, writer, and dance historian, 1907-1995. Lincoln Kirstein was born in Rochester, NY, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1930). He married Fidelma Cadmus, sister of artist, Paul Cadmus, in 1941 and served in the U.S. Army 1943-45. He co-founded School of American Ballet with George Balanchine and Edward M.M. Warburg in 1934. Participated in the founding and/or direction of American Ballet in 1935, Ballet Caravan 1936-41, Ballet Society in 1946, and became general direct...

Yamanaka Galleries (New York, N.Y.)

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

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Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968

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Swiss historian of art and architecture. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1964. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585402 ...

Loeb, James, 1867-1933

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Freedley, Durr, 1888-1938.

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Durr Friedley was a staff member of the Department of Decorative Arts of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1911 until 1917, serving as an assistant, Assistant Curator and Acting Curator. From the description of Durr Friedley records, 1906-1918 (1917-1918). (Metropolitan Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 537884026 ...

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...

Rockefeller Center.

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Holmes, C. J. (Charles John), 1868-1936

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Epithet: Admiral British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x00023a ...

LONGSTREET, GILBERT WENDEL

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Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933

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Arthur Kingsley Porter was an art historian and scholar of Romanesque architecture who taught at Harvard University. From the description of Study collection of Romanesque architecture and sculpture, with emphasis on France and Italy. 19--. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84440691 Porter taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Arthur Kingsley Porter, 1863-1957 (inclusive), 1863-1933 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat rec...

Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938

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American sculptor, 1863-1938, also art collector and dealer. Trained at Chicago Art Institute and L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Commissioned to do statues for the Capital in Harrisburg, Pa., a statue of Lincoln for Cincinnati, Ohio. He spent the last years of his life on a monument to peace entitled "Rainbow Arch" which was never realized. Barnard supported himself by selling Medieval art and artifacts. He built the "Cloisters" in New York City to house his personal collection and sold it in 1925 to...

Cloisters (Museum)

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Benesch, Otto, 1896-1964

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Warner, Roger S.

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Sachs, Arthur.

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Red Cross

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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Austin, Arthur Everett, 1900-1957

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Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.; also known as Chick Austin; director of the Wadsworth Atheneum (1927-1944); first director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; he was instrumental in bringing the Asolo Theater, first constructed in 1798 in Asolo, Italy by Antonio Locatelli, to the museum. From the description of Chick Austin papers, 1955-1957. (Library of Congress / Nucmc). WorldCat record id: 639021595 ...

Yale University. Art Gallery.

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Zevallos, Fernando Ortiz de.

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Gnoli, Umberto, 1878-1947

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Mannes, Leopold

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Composed 1924-26. First performance Rochester, N.Y., 23 January 1928, Rochester Philharmonic, Howard Hanson conductor. Mannes won the Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship, 1925, for this and other works.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Suite for orchestra : "breve ma grave" / Leopold D. Mannes. 1924. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52907988 Leopold Mannes, born Dec. 26, 1899, New York, and died Aug. 11, 1964, Vineyard Haven, Mass. American ...

Brummer Gallery (New York, N.Y.)

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Art galleries at 43 E. 57th St., and 55 E. 57th St., New York, N.Y. From the description of Brummer Gallery exhibition catalogs, 1921-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122546147 ...

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 ...

Perkins, F. Mason

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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...

Iacovleff, Alexandre, 1887-1938

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Buck, Richard D.

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Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814

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Scientist and inventor; lived in New Hampshire; also known as Sir Benjamin Thompson Rumford. From the description of Family papers, 1747-1852. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963873 Rumford, an applied physicist and inventor, as well as a soldier of fortune, and philanthropist, was born in Massachusetts, but after siding with the British in the American Revolution, lived mostly in England, Bavaria, and France. He studied heat, gunpowder, coo...

Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935

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Ross earned his Harvard Ph.D. 1880. He was a lecturer on theory of design at Harvard from 1899 to 1909 and member of the Dept. of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1935. From the description of Biographical and general information relating to Denman Waldo Ross, ca. 1880-ca. 1935? (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064512 Teacher, artist and collector. Educated at Harvard (Ph.D., 1880). Lecturer on theory of design, Architectural School, Harvard from 1899 to 1909; Appointed mem...

Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967

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Society named after Horace Walpole (1717-1797), founded in 1910 to promote the study and appreciation of British art. From the description of Walpole Society papers, 1934-1967. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 550528065 Theodore Sizer was born on March 19, 1892 in New York City. He received a B.S. degree from Harvard in 1915. He worked in the import-export business from 1915 until 1922 and served as a first lieutenant in the Army in World War I. He was curator at the ...

Brown, John Nicholas, 1900-1979

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John Nicholas Brown (1900-1979) was born on February 21, 1900 in New York City as the only child of John Nicholas Brown (1861-1900) and Natalie Bayard Dresser Brown (1869-1950). When John Nicholas Brown was just two months old, his father contracted Typhoid fever and died suddenly on May 1, 1900. The tragic deaths of his father and later, his uncle, Harold Brown, left John Nicholas to become the sole heir to the family fortune at the tender age of three months and dubbe...

Nicolson, Benedict, 1914-....

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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...

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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There was only one individual to hold an exhibition design related curatorship at the Museum. This was D. Craig Craven. Craven joined the Museum staff in March 1964 as the exhibitions designer. The following year the position title was changed to assistant curator of exhibitions. In 1970 Craven was promoted to curator of exhibitions. He left the Museum in 1973, after a short stint as the adjunct curator of exhibitions. From the description of Curator of Exhibitions records, 1967-1972...

Bell, Hamilton, 1857-1929

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Schmidt-Degener, F. (Frederik), 1881-1941

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Lyman Allyn Museum

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Norton, Sara, 1864-1922.

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Kelekian, Dikran G., 1868-1951

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Pabst, Gustav, Jr.

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Hahn, Andrée.

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Offner, Richard, 1889-1965

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Wells, Cady, 1904-1954

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Painter; Santa Fe, N.M. From the description of Cady Wells papers, 1913-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82223563 Wells was a noted artist who spent most of his career in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From the description of Cady Wells collection, 1940-1970. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37497630 Henry Cady Wells was born November 15, 1904 into a wealthy family in Massachusetts. He received a private education, was artistic...

Wheatland, Richard, 1872-1944.

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Lee of Fareham, Viscount (Arthur Hamilton Lee), 1868-1947

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Born, Bridport, 1868; educated at Cheltenham College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; joined the Royal Artillery 1888; served in China, earning high commendation from the War Office, 1889-1890; Professor of Strategy and Tactics, Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada, 1893-1898; organised Military Survey of the Canadian Frontier, 1894-1896; appointed British military attach with the US Army during the Spanish-American war, 1898; honorary member of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and became a close...

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 ...

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Hanfmann, George M. A. (George Maxim Anossov), 1911-1986

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Professor Hanfmann (1911-1986) taught Classical art and Archaeology at Harvard, where he was also curator of Classical art in the Fogg Museum and field director of the Harvard-Cornell archaeological expedition to Sardis. From the description of Papers of George M. A. Hanfmann, 1927-1985 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76974730 ...

Demotte, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)

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Sommer, Clemens Ernst Joseph Adolph, 1891-

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Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969

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Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison), 1906-1978

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Philanthropist. From the description of Reminiscences of John Davison Rockefeller 3d : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724157 From the description of Reminiscences of John Davison Rockefeller 3d : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723979 ...

Fitzgerald, Anne, 1902-

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Goldman, Hetty, 1881-1972

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Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981

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Art Historian and first director of the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. papers, 1927-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516895 Correspondence and biographical material collected by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (1902-1981) on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). From the description of Barr/Feininger material, 1927-1944, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122531411 Museum director, curator, and critic; New York, N.Y. ...

Durand-Ruel Galleries New York, N.Y.

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Art gallery; 389 Fifth Ave. and 12 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. From the description of Durand-Ruel Galleries exhibition catalogs, [ca. 1915]-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515485 ...

Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957

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Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1952. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122646617 Museum director, Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, N.Y. From the description of Francis Henry Taylor papers, 1950-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515565 Gallery at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. From the description of Correspondence with Cha...

Graphische Sammlung Albertina.

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Pfeiffer, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1892-1958

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Robert Henry Pfeiffer ( 1892-1958 ) was born in Bologna, Italy . He received his MA and PhD from Harvard University . He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1916 and held a pastorate in Sanborn, New York, from 1916 to 1919 . In 1922, he was hired as a professor at Harvard University and he was appointed Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages in 1953 . He also served as a professor at Boston University's School of Theology . He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in anthropo...

Edgell, George Harold, 1887-1954

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Edgell (1887-1954) graduated from Harvard in 1909 and taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Harold Edgell, 1929-1935 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973020 ...

Durlacher Bros. (New York, N.Y.)

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Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943

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Laurence Binyon was an English writer. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. From the description of Laurence Binyon fonds. [1941]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660202804 Binyon was born Aug. 10, 1869 in Lancaster, England; British Museum official for 40 years, as well as art historian, critic, translator, playwright, and poet; author of numerous works on art, including Painting in the Fa...

Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866-

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Daughters of Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), editor, literary scholar, and professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sara edited a published edition of her father's letters. From the description of Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive), 1880-1946 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612364861 From the guide to the Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive), 1880-1946 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard Coll...

Baum, Julius, 1882-1959

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Friedländer, Max J., 1867-1958

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German art historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Amsterdam, to Edmund Schilling, [1953 Feb. 16]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270752355 Max Jakob Friedländer was a German art historian and museum director, perhaps best known for the eleven-volume Die altniederländische Maleri. He studied in Munich, Florence, and Leipzig, and began a long association with the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, in 1896. Widely respected as an author, col...

Paine, Robert Treat, 1861-1943.

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Gimpel & Wildenstein Gallery (New York, N.Y.)

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Warner, Lorraine d'O. (Lorraine d'Orémieulx), 1887-1965.

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Dudley, Laura.

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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...

Coolidge, Charles Allerton.

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Coolidge (Harvard, A.B., 1917) was a member of the Harvard Corporation, 1935- From the description of Papers of Charles Allerton Coolidge, 1942-1965 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973243 ...

Meeks, Everett V. (Everett Victor), 1879-1954

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Rowland, Benjamin, 1904-1972

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Rowland graduated from Harvard in 1928 and taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Rowland, 1950-1953 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973166 Educator, watercolorist, paper cut-out and wax paper transfer artist. From the description of Benjamin Rowland papers, 1923-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515032 ...

Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1869-1943.

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Walker, John, 1906 Dec. 24-

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Pope, Arthur Upham, 1881-1959.

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Robinson, Frederick Bruce

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Smith, Hammond

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David, Percival, Sir, 1892-1964

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Lochoff, Nicholas, 1872-1948

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Mather, Frank Jewett, 1878-1953.

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Sirén, Osvald 1879-1966

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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...

Newton, Roger Hale

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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 ...

Venturi, Adolfo, 1856-1941

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Warburg, Edward M.M.

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Art collectors and patrons; New York, N.Y. Edward died 1992. From the description of Edward M.M. and Mary Whelan Warburg papers, 1931-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515675 Warburg was the son of Felix M. Warburg (1871-1937) and the chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee; he writes on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal. From the description of Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1940. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 15...

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...

Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943

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Epithet: of MS Facsimile Suppl. II British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000172 American financier. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Mrs. Ackermann, 1918 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874981 ...

Dossena, Alceo, -1937

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Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943

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Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) were Italian immigrants who were tried and executed for robbery and murder of payroll guards Frederick Albert Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Sacco and Vanzetti quickly became one of America's most complicated and notorious political trials. They were found guilty on July 14, 1921, but the legal struggle to save them extended until 1927. By April 9, 1927, all appeals in the Massachu...

Ames, Winslow.

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Museum director, art and architecture historian, collector, connoisseur of drawings; b. 1907; d. 1990. From the description of Winslow Ames papers, 1787-1989 (bulk 1960-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82500935 Museum director, art historian, collector, conoisseur of drawings and authority on Victorian art, born 1907. From the description of Winslow Ames interviews, 1987 Apr. 29-1987 June 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220182165 Winslow Ames, b. ...

Ehrich, Robert W.

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Pratt, Harriet Barnes.

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Lyon, R. Arcadius.

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Norton, Richard, 1872-1918

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Richard Norton (b. February 9, 1872, Dresden, Germany-d. August 2, 1918, Paris, France), archaeologist and art scholar, was the organizer and head of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, also known as the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, which served on the front in France in World War I from 1914 until it was taken over by the American Army in 1917. He was the son of Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard and Susan Sedgewick Norton. He graduated from Harvard in 1892, and was director ...

Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984

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Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959

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Forbes was an American business and government executive. He served as governor-general of the Philippines, 1909-1913, and ambasador to Japan, 1930-1932. From the description of W. Cameron (William Cameron) Forbes images of the Philippines, 1907-1946. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612734531 From the guide to the W. Cameron (William Cameron) Forbes images of the Philippines, 1907-1946., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Busin...

Courtauld Institute of Art.

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Sayre, EleanorA.

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Thompson, Daniel V. (Daniel Varney), 1902-1980

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Art historian, conservator, chemist engineer; d. 1980. Studied techniques of medieval, Renaissance painting. Professor at Courtald Institute, London, 1938-1947. From the description of Daniel Varney Thompson interviews, 1974 Sept. 25-1976 Nov. 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220244371 Art historian, conservator, chemist engineer; d. 1980. Studied techniques of medieval, Renaissance painting. Professor at C...

Henry Reinhardt & Son.

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Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937

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John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) was born in Richford, New York to William Avery Rockefeller and Eliza Davison. In 1853, he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio where he studied bookkeeping. With partner Maurice B. Clark, Rockefeller built an oil refinery in 1863 and bought out his partner two years later. In 1864, he married Laura Celestia “Cettie” Spelman, with whom he had four children. Two years later, Rockefeller joined his brother William to establish Rockefeller, Andrews, & Flagler, wh...

Wetzel, Hervey E.

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Wetzel earned his Harvard AB in 1911, and attended graduate school 1913-1916. From the description of Notes on Arabic manuscripts, February 11, 1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075195 ...

Birnbaum, Martin, 1878-1943.

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Scheyer, Galka E.

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Art collector, dealer; b. 1889; d. 1945; Los Angeles, Calif. Scheyer worked to introduce the art of the Blue Four (Blaue Vier), Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Alexei Jawlensky, to American collectors. From the description of Galka Scheyer papers, 1917-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118568 ...

Priest, Alan, 1898-1969

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Goldman, Henry, 1857-1937

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Guiffrey, Jean-Jacques

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Burroughs, Alan, 1897-1965

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Alan Burroughs was a pioneer in the technique of x-raying paintings. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1922-1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155900368 ...

Farnsworth, Marie

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Platt, Dan Fellows, 1873-1938

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Dan Fellows Platt was a member of the Princeton Class of 1895, became an archaeologist, collector and critic of Italian art, was a former mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, and chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University. From the description of Platt albums, 1910-1938. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 191686592 Art collector and author; Englewood, N.J. From the description of Dan Fellows Pla...

Berenson Library

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Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983

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Kenneth Clark was an art historian and a patron of the arts. He was born in London, and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained a second class in modern history. In the autumn of 1925, art historian Bernard Berenson asked him to assist him in the revision of his corpus of Florentine drawings. In 1929 he was offered the task of cataloguing Leonardo da Vinci's drawings held at Windsor Castle. In 1931 he was appointed keeper of the Department of Fine Art at the Ashmolean...

Constable, W. G. (William George), 1887-1976

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W.G. Constable (1887-1976) was an art historian and curator from Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with W.G. Constable, 1972 July -1973 June [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394203 Art historian, curator; Cambridge, Mass. Died 1976. From the description of Oral history interview with W.G. Constable, 1972 July -1973 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291584 Art historian, curator; Boston, Massachusett...

Porter, Lucy Kingsley

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Rosenberg, James Naumburg, 1874-1970

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Lucas, E. Louise (Edna Louise), 1899-

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Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945

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Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945), American poet and collector of Japanese prints. His works include Sonnets of a Portrait Painter(1914), Chats on Japanese Prints (1915), Out of Silence and Other Poems (1924), and Mrs. Morton of Mexico, (1939), a novel. From the description of Arthur Davison Ficke Papers 1865-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702134010 Ficke (Harvard, A.B., 1904) served as Curator of Japanese Prints at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. From the d...

Demotte, G. J., d. 1924.

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Vernon, Ambrose White, 1870-1951

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Winlock, Herbert E., 1884-1950

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Epithet: Egyptologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0001a3 Epithet: of the Metropolitan Museum, New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x00017f ...

Holt, George P.

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Mortier, Édouard Napoléon César Edmond, duc de Trevise, 1912-1946.

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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...

Wolfinsohn, Wolfe.

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Plotz, Harry, 1890-1947

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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 ...

Musée du Louvre.

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Berliner, Rudolf, 1886-1967

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Galerie Durand-Ruel

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Witt, Robert Clermont, Sir, 1872-1952

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Epithet: President of the National Art-Collections Fund British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x0001d5 Epithet: of Add MS 48930 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x000060 ...

Harvard University. Portrait Collection

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Murray, John Edward

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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...

Kress, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1863-1955

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Greene, Jerome D. (Jerome Davis), 1874-1955

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Greene graduated from Harvard in 1896, was Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Corporation and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Jerome D. Greene, 1894-ca. 1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973049 ...

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). ...

Gilman, Margaret, 1883-1969.

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Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962

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Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962, Harvard AB 1900) and his wife, Mildred Barnes Bliss (1875-1969) were prominent art collectors and the founders of Dumbarton Oaks, an estate which they developed and conveyed in 1940 to Harvard University as the Center for Byzantine Studies, a research center and museum. Robert Woods Bliss served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1903-1933. He was Minister to Sweden from 1923-1927 and Ambassador to Argentina from 1927-1933. From t...

American federation of arts

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The American Federation of Arts was a non-profit education association that sponsored group and one-man shows as well as lecture tours to promote the arts in America. The correspondence with A.F.A. staff Leila Mechlin, Horace Jayne and Burton Cummings deals primarily with exhibitions of the work of Federico Castellón, Misch Kohn and Mauricio Lasansky. Also mentioned is a lecture tour on prints made by Elmer Adler. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1953...