Papers, 1903-2005.

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Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965. Papers, 1903-2005.

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Papers, 1903-2005.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424592354

Abstract

These papers of Fogg Art Museum associate director Paul J. Sachs document his administration of the museum, his teaching career at Harvard, and related professional activities. The papers consist primarily of correspondence and also include photographs, printed material, clippings, architectural drawings, reports, financial records, letters of introduction, insurance records, maps, funding appeals, minutes, memoranda, exhibition brochures, page proofs and press releases.

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99 files boxes + oversize materials.

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Harvard University Art Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 7450000

Harvard University Art Museum

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Koehler, Wilhelm Reinhold Walter, 1884-1959

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Koehler taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Reinhold Walter Koehler, 1934-1952 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973103 ...

Weber, Max, 1881-1961

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Artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Max Weber : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309727971 Max Weber (1881-1961) was a painter and sculptor in New York, N.Y. Weber was the National Chairman for the American Artists Congress in 1937. From the description of Max Weber papers, 1904-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821036 Painter; New York, N.Y. ...

Wildenstein, Felix, 1883-1952

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Williams, Hermann Warner, 1908-1974

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Malone, Dumas, 1892-1986

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American historian and editor. From the description of Address books [manuscript] ca. 1925-1934. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647963645 Historian, biographer, University of Virginia professor. From the description of Papers of Dumas Malone [manuscript], 1913-1986. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816236 Professor of History at the University of Virginia; Editor of the "Dictionary of American biography," and biographer of ...

Wolff, Kurt, 1887-1963

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Kurt Wolff had been Franz Werfel's publisher from 1912 to 1923. Helen Wolff (née Mosel) was Kurt's second wife. Helen and Kurt were good friends of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel. The Wolffs, together with their son, Christian, emigrated to the U.S. in 1940 or 1941. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, ca. 1941-1963. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864842 Kurt Wolff, publisher, was born in Germany; he established...

Vaillant, George Clapp, 1901-1945

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Smith, Frank C

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Frost, Henry Atherton, 1884-

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Offner, Richard, 1889-1965

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Sarton, May, 1912-1995

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...

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

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Erffa, Helmut von, 1900-1979

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Art historian. Taught art history at Rutgers University. From the description of Helmut von Erffa letters, 1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093779 ...

Straus, Irma N.

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Riefstahl, R. Meyer 1880-1936,

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Stillman, Charles Chauncey, d. 1926.

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Stillman graduated from Harvard in 1898. From the description of Notes in Fine Arts 4 : lectures by Prof. Norton, 1897-1898. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074193 From the description of Notes in Italian 4, 1897-1898. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074195 ...

Upjohn, Everard M. (Everard Miller), 1903-1978

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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 ...

McIlhenny, Henry P.

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Henry McIlhenny, art collector of Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Oral history interview with Henry Plumer McIlhenny, 1974 Oct. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397411 Henry McIlhenny (1910-1986) was an art collector, curator, and arts administrator from Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Oral history interview with Henry Plumer McIlhenny, 1974 Oct. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477506 Henry McIlhenny was on the board of the...

Sessions, Barbard.

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Pottinger, David T. (David Thomas), 1884-1958

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Pottinger earned his Harvard AB in 1906 and his Harvard AM in 1914. From the description of Papers and notes in courses in English, Economics and Fine Arts, 1902-1906. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074562 Pottinger graduated from Harvard in 1906 and served as Associate Director of Harvard University Press. From the description of Papers of David T. Pottinger, 1902-ca. 1908 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973156 Davi...

Lemann, Bernard, 1905-

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Bernard Lemann (1905- ) earned his Harvard AM 1931 and Harvard Ph.D. 1936. From the description of Student notes from fine arts courses, ca. 1930-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064757 Bernard Lemann was born Sept. 7, 1905, in Donaldsonville, La. His parents were Ferdinand Bernard Lemann (a merchant and sugar planter) and Mathile Madeleine Frank Lemann. He married Eleanor Jane Terhune in 1945; they had two children, John Ferdinand and Jeremy. Bernard Lemann...

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...

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...

Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970

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Classical archaeologist, architect, and art historian Myron Bement Smith (1897-1970) had a life-long devotion to West Asia, accumulating some 87,000 items now in the Archives documenting Islamic art and culture from Spain to India, with an emphasis on architecture. Established in 1948 to further an appreciation for Persian art and culture, nearly seventy-five percent of Smith's "Islamic Archives" consists of his own work; the remainder obtained from other sources. Smith's own negati...

Spencer, Eleanor P. (Eleanor Patterson)

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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 ...

HUYGHE, RENE

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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 ...

Vanderbilt, Paul

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Paul Vanderbilt (1905-1992) was a librarian and archivist from Madison and Middleton, Wis. From the description of Oral history interview with Paul Vanderbilt, 1964 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477553 Librarian, archivist; Madison and Middleton, Wisc. From the description of Paul Vanderbilt interview, 1964 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220197500 Paul Vanderbilt, Librarian, archivist of Madison and Middleton, Wisc. From...

Cunningham, Charles Crehore, 1910-1979

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Charles Crehore Cunningham (1910-1979) was a museum curator and lecturer, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute of Williamstown, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Charles Cunningham, 1977 Apr. 18-19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477483 In 1950 Sterling and Francine Clark chartered the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute as a home for their extensive art collection. Opened to the public in 1955, the Institute has built upon this extraord...

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...

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...

Harris, Paul S. (Paul Stewart), 1906-

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Curator, museum director, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky., 1946-1962; deputy director Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1962-1967; director of collections, Henry Ford Museum, Michigan, 1967-1971. From the description of Paul Stewart Harris papers, 1930-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122454308 ...

Hirsch, Robert von 1883-1977

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German collector (1883-1977). From the description of Autograph letter signed : Basel, to Edmund Schilling, former head of the Städelsches Kuntinstitut, Frankfurt, 1973 Jul. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270465873 ...

Sewall, John Ives

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Stora, Raphael.

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Washburn, Gordon B. (Gordon Bailey), 1904-

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Gordon Bailey Washburn (1904-1983) was an art museum director from New York, N.Y. Director of Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1931-1942. Director of Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1942-1949. Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Penn., 1950-1962. Director, Asia House Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1961-1974. From the description of Oral history interview with Gordon Bailey Washburn, 1970 Mar. 4-18 [sound recor...

Nielson, William Allan

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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...

D'Harnoncourt, René, 1901-1968

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Director of the Museum of Modern Art, 1949-1968. From the description of Rene d'Harnoncourt papers, 1924-1983, 1940-1968 (bulk). (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122530614 Museum director and authority on American Indian and Mexican arts and crafts. Born 1901 in Vienna, Austria; died 1968 in Long Island, New York. D'Harnoncourt lived in Mexico from 1925 to 1933 and worked as an artist before joining a Mexico City antiques firm in 1927. He compiled and lectu...

Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954

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Tozzer graduated from Harvard in 1900, and taught anthropology and archaeology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alfred Marston Tozzer, 1908-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973202 Alfred Marston Tozzer was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on July 4, 1877 to Samuel Clarence Tozzer and Caroline Blanchard (Marston) Tozzer. He grew up in Lynn and after graduating from high school attended Harvard College where he received degrees...

Wight, Frederick Stallknecht, 1902-1986

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Painter, author, gallery director, art administrator; Los Angeles, Calif. Died 1986 Was director of the University of California, Los Angeles art gallery, now called the Frederick S. Wight Galleries. From the description of Frederick Stallknecht Wight letters, 1954-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515599 ...

Straus, Herbert N.

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Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932

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Businessman and philanthropist. Born, Springfield, IL, 1862. President, Rosenwald and Weil, 1885-1906. Vice-president and treasurer, Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1910-1925; president and chairman of the board, 1925-1932. Founder, Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1917. Founder, Museum of Science and Industry, 1929. Trustee, University of Chicago, Tuskegee Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, Hull House, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Baron de Hirsch Fund. From the description of Papers, 1905-19...

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

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Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976

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Hudson D. Walker (1907-1976) was an art adminstrator and collector from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Hudson Dean Walker, 1971 Sept. 1-1972 Aug. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397625 Collector and administrator; New York, N.Y.; d. 1976. From the description of Hudson D. Walker papers, 1920-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83753904 Hudson Dean Walker (1907-1976) was an art administrator and collector from New...

Goldschmidt, Adolph, 1863-1944

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Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943

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Kramarsky, Siegfried.

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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...

Lawrence, Marion, 1901-....

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Sachs, Arthur.

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Pauli, Gustav, 1866-1938

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Epithet: of Dresden British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001300.0x000236 ...

Wertheim, Maurice, 1886-1950

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Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996

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Educator, art critic, and professor of fine arts at Columbia University, 1928-1965, University Professor, 1965-1973, Prof. Schapiro (Columbia Univ BA, 1924; MA 1926, Ph.D., 1929) died in 1996. From the description of Meyer Schapiro Correspondence with Whittaker Chambers and James Thomas Farrell, 1923-1991. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 467178770 d. March 3, 1996. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged ...

D'Hendecourt, Bernard.

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Robinson, Frederick Bruce

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Sanborn, Cyrus Ashton Rollins, 1882-1970.

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Sachs, Meta.

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Minassian, Kirkor

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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...

Gnoli, Umberto, 1878-1947

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Wells, Edgar Huidekoper, 1875-1938,

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Edgar Huidekoper Wells, '97, was a long-time friend of the Harvard College Library and an active and loyal alumnus. He held various positions at Harvard, including instructor in English (1902-1906); curator of modern English literature in the library (1903-1913); and assistant dean (1905-1907). In the first World War he served first in the American Red Cross and then as an army officer attached to the U.S. Embassy in London. After the war he was instrumental in establishing the Lionel DeJersey H...

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...

Morley, Grace, 1900-1985

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Grace Morley, b. 1900; d. 1985, Museum director of Calif. Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1934-1958, and was involved in the establishment of the National Museum of India in New Delhi. From the description of Oral history interview with Grace Morley, 1982 Feb. 6-Mar. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395849 Museum director; Calif.; d. 1985. Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1934-1958, and was i...

Loeb, James, 1867-1933

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Whittemore, Thomas, 1871-1950

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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 ...

Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950

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Architect; Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Came to U.S. from Finland. Taught design at the University of Michigan and was president of Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the description of [Louis Sullivan and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue eulogy]. 1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122556982 ...

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...

Claflin, Agnes Rindge, 1900-1977

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Educator, collector, and director of Vassar Art Gallery. From the description of Agnes Rindge Claflin papers concerning Alexander Calder, 1936-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515393 Agnes Rindge Claflin (1900-1977) was an educator and collector, and director of Vassar Art Gallery. From the description of Agnes Rindge Claflin papers concerning Alexander Calder, 1936-circa 1970s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657037225 ...

Porter, Lucy Kingsley

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Warburg, Gerald Felix, 1902-1971.

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Ehrlich, Evelyn

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Nash, Ray, 1905-1982

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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. ...

Lieberman, William S. (William Slattery), 1924-2005

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William Lieberman, Northeastern University alumnus, attended the university between 1964 and 1968. He majored in biology and went to work in the field of transportation. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. He wrote Chapter 5, "The Winthrop Loop", in Robert C. Stanley's Narrow Gauge: The Story of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroads, (Cambridge, Mass.: Boston Railway Association, Inc., 1980), available in the Northeastern University library. From the description of Willi...

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 ...

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...

Howe, Thomas Carr, 1904-

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Museum director (San Francisco, Calif.). From the description of Thomas Carr Howe interviews, 1976 June 2-June 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220180760 Art consultant; San Francisco, Calif. Former director of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. From the description of Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502669 From the description of Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Gimpel, René

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Art dealer; Paris, France. Born October 4, 1881; died January 3, 1945. From the description of René Gimpel papers, 1897-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81903333 ...

Rosenberg, James N. (James Naumburg), 1874-

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Painter, patron, lawyer; New York, N.Y.; d. 1970. From the description of James N. Rosenberg papers, 1911-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77599940 ...

Dudley, Laura.

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Hauke, Cesar M. de (Cesar Mange), -1965

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Mather, Frank Jewett, 1868-1953

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Frank Jewett Mather was born on July 6,1868, in Deep River Connecticut. Mather attended Williams College for his undergraduate studies and then obtained a Ph.D. in English, Philology, and Literature from Johns Hopkins University. In college he developed a deep appreciation for art, and began to pursue his own creative career. From 1893 to 1900, Mather took a break from his painting to teach at Williams College. In 1901 he changed paths and entered the journalism world, working at The Nation and ...

Sayre, Eleanor A.

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Sayre, Eleanor A., 1916, Curator, art historian of Boston, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Eleanor Sayre, 1993 Apr. 19-1997 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220211014 ...

Mongan, Elizabeth.

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Elizabeth Mongan (1909-2002) was the sister of Agnes Mongan (1905-1996), curator and director of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. From the description of Oral history interview with Elizabeth Mongan, 1979 Sept. 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80974409 From the description of Oral history interview with Elizabeth Mongan, 1979 Sept. 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744434673 ...

Parker, K.T. (Karl Theodore), 1895-1992

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Nock, Arthur Darby, 1902-1963

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Epithet: of Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x0002af ...

Paige, David Abbey, 1901-1978

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Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979

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Writer, critic; New Canaan, Connecticut. Died 1979. From the description of James Thrall Soby interview, 1970 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190225 Author, art critic, editor, collector, patron, connoisseur, and MoMA director and trustee. From the description of James Thrall Soby papers, 1930-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122484551 James Thrall Soby (1906-1979) was a writer and critic from New Canaan, Conn. From the descript...

Perry, Ralph Barton, 1876-1957

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Perry graduated from Harvard in 1897 and taught philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Ralph Barton Perry, 1891-1957 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973152 Perry received his A.M. in 1897 and his Ph.D in 1899 from Harvard, and taught philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Public opinion and the Civil War : paper for History 20e, 1896-1898. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074149 ...

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...

Lilienfeld, Karl, 1885-

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Blum, André, 1881-1963

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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 ...

Finley, David E. (David Edward)

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Museum director and lawyer. From the description of Papers of David E. Finley, 1921-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069121 Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. From the description of Correspondence to Paul Philippe Cret, 1945. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63645383 Born 1890, York, South Carolina; 1922-27, Member, War Loan Staff, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury; 1927-32, Special assistant to Secretary o...

Rae, Edwin Carter.

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Neumeyer, Alfred, 1901-1973

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Venturi, Lionello, 1885-1961

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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...

Hatch, John Davis

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John Hatch, 1907-1996, art historian, collector, art consultant and museum director. From the description of Oral history interview with John Davis Hatch, 1979 Aug. 30-1980 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397339 John Davis Hatch was an art historian, collector, art consultant and museum director in 1930s to 1950. Born 1907. Died May 30, 1996. From the description of John Davis Hatch collection on panoramas, circa 1814-1977. (National Gallery of Art Libr...

Raemisch, Waldemar, 1888-1955.

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Mallon, Paul

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Whiting, F. A. (Frederick Allen), 1873-1959

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Museum director, art administrator; Cleveland, Ohio and Boston, Massachusetts. First director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1912-1930. From the description of Frederic Allen Whiting papers, 1916-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565817 ...

Standen, Edith Appleton

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Curator; Metropolitan Museum of Art. Born 1905, Halifax, Nova Scotia. From the description of Oral history interview with Edith A. Standen, 1994 Jan. 6-Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78748260 ...

Parsons, Harold Woodbury -1967

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Straus, Jesse Isidor, 1872-1936

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Swarzenski, Hanns, 1903-1985

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Art historian; West Germany. From the description of Hanns Swarzenski essay, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557176 ...

Paff, Adam Edwin Merriman, 1891-

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Focillon, Henri, 1881-1943

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A French art historian who taught in Europe and the United States, Focillon was an authority on the art of the Middle Ages, particularly the Romanesque period. From the description of Henri Focillon letter, 1923 Jan. 4. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70831318 ...

Wildenstein, Georges.

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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 ...

Friend, Albert Mathias, jr.

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Kevorkian, Harout

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Neilson, Katharine Bishop

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Lee, Rensselaer W. (Rensselaer Wright), 1898-1984

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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 ...

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 ...

Levi, Doro, 1898-1991

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Smith, Robert C. (Robert Chester), 1912-1976

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Robert C. Smith was a professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in the 18th century art of Portugal and Brazil. He was the author of numerous books and articles on different aspects of this subject. From the description of Research notes and photographs, 1969-1971. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122394122 ...

Beam, Philip C.

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Philip C. Beam (1910-2005) was an art historian from Brunswick, Me. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip C. Beam, 1984 June 18-Sept. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477473 Philip Beam was Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Bowdoin College. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1956. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155900128 Art historian, educator; Brunswick, Maine. Born 1910. ...

Mayer, Gustav, 1956-

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Wittman, Otto, 1911-2001.

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Aubert, Marcel, 1884-1962

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Epithet: MD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001187.0x0003b4 Epithet: of Marseilles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001187.0x0003b5 Epithet: Professor of French British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001187.0x0003b6 ...

Ede, H.S. (Harold Stanley), 1895-1990

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McAndrew, John

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Professor of art and architecture. Born 1904 in New York, NY; died 1978 in Venice, Italy. Graduated from Harvard University in 1924, received a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1940, and studied architecture in Europe and Mexico. Positions held: intructor at Vassar College; professor at Wellesley College; curator of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Art at the New York Museum of Modern Art; coordinator of inter-American affairs in Mexico during World War II; director of ...

Perkins, F. Mason

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Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930

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Kuno Francke (1855-1930) taught German and was curator of the Germanic Museum at Harvard. He received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1912. From the description of Papers of Kuno Francke, ca. 1890-1930 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069241 From the description of The new Germanic museum : manuscript prepared for Harvard Graduate's Magazine, 1911. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064181 Kuno Francke was a German-born U.S. histo...

Joachim, Harold, 1909-1983

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Robinson, Edward, 1858-1931

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Loveman, Amy

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Amy Loveman was born in New York City in 1881. She graduated from Barnard College in 1901. Loveman was the first editor of the Barnard Bulletin. She was one of the founding editors of the "Saturday Review of Literature", established in 1924. When the Book-of-the-Month Club was established in 1926, Loveman was chairperson of the reading department and in 1951 became editor. She received the Columbia University Medal of Excellence in 1945 and the Constance Lindsay Skinner Award in 1946. In 1956, f...

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 ...

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...

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

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Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948

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Henry Watson Kent served as the first professional librarian of the Grolier Club from 1903 to 1906 and originated its classification scheme. He continued to serve the Club during the following decades through its Library, Publications and House committees, and its Council. From 1906 until his retirement in 1940 Kent was Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. From the description of What I am pleased to call my education : typescript, 1948 / by Henry Watson Kent...

Wethey, Harold E. (Harold Edwin), 1902-1984

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Saltonstall, Nathaniel, 1903-1968.

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Paine, Robert Treat, 1900-1965

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Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972

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Landau, Nicolas E.

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Milliken, William Mathewson, 1889-1978

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Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1930-1958). From the description of Papers, ca. 1885-1978. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18242561 William Milliken (1889-1978) was a museum director from Cleveland, Ohio. He was the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930-1958. From the description of Oral history interview with William Milliken, 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...

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...

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....

Matisse, Pierre, 1900-1989

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Drey, A. S.

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Wiles, Bertha Harris, 1896-

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Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) George ...

Walker, John, 1906-1995

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Jackson, William A. (William Alexander), 1905-1964

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Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard University.. From the description of William A. Jackson diplomas and certificates, 1927-1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 663976597 Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard. From the description of William A. Jackson letters to Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldC...

Guérin, Marcel, 1873-1948

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Marcel Guérin was a French art critic who wrote about modern painting, including the works of Manet and Gaugin. From the description of Marcel Guérin letter, Paris, to Monsieur, and clipping, 1945 June 15 and 1946 March 9. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 40750103 ...

Grace, Frederick R. (Frederick Randolph), 1909-1942

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Michalski, Ernst.

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Hamill, Alfred E. (Alfred Ernest), 1884-1953

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Chicago businessman and book collector. Alfred Ernest Hamill, a Chicago investment banker, was the founder of the Centaurs Press in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was a trustee of the Newberry Library, serving as President of the Trustees from 1930 until his death in 1953. A distinguished collector, he bequeathed his calligraphy collection and his gypsy lore materials to the Newberry, and established the Alfred E. Hamill Fund for the purchase of rare books and manuscripts. ...

Sirén, Osvald 1879-1966

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Gobin, Maurice.

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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

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English museum director, art historian and collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge to Hugh W. Davies, 1911 Jan. 05. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899880 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hammersmith, to Mackenzie Bell, 1896 Nov. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899382 From the description of Autograph letter signed (retained copy) : Cambridge, to Lord Henry Bentinck, 1909 Feb. 17. (Unknown). ...

Roosval, Johnny, 1879-

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Magurn, Ruth Saunders.

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Ruth Saunders Magurn was an art museum curator. She was born on February 17, 1908 to George Henry and Grace Eliza (Dingwell) Magurn, in Boston, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. at Barnard College in 1929 and an A.M. at Radcliffe College in 1932. She was cataloger at Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University between 1929 and 1939. Between 1940-1965, she was associate curator of prints, and then curator of prints between 1965 and 1974. She was the translator and editor of the book The Letters of Pet...

Sawyer, Charles Henry, 1906-

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Director, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1956-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70958497 Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, professor of art and art history. From the description of Charles Henry Sawyer papers, 1936-1996. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 79296005 From the description of Charles Henry Sawyer papers, 1930-1996. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778403 ...

Weston, Harold, 1894-1972

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Harold Weston and his wife, Faith Weston. From the description of Letters, 1938-1985, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155879509 Harold Weston (1894-1972) was an American painter and humanitarian. From the guide to the Harold Weston Papers, 1916-1971, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Harold Weston (1894-1972) was a painte...

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...

Morrison, Richard C.

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Richard C. Morrison was an art administrator with the Federal Art Project. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard C. Morrison, 1965 June 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458412010 Art administrator, Federal Art Project. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard C. Morrison, 1965 June 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007101 From the description of Richard C. Morrison interview, 1965 June 8. (Un...

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943

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Frederick Keppel was Carl Zigrosser's dean at Columbia University. Keppel took a personal interest in Zigrosser, and their letters cover Zigrosser's employment at Keppel & Co., Zigrosser's stand on conscientious objection during World War I (Keppel was with the War Department at the time), print purchases made by Keppel while he was with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Zigrosser's books. Included is a 1924 etching by Kerr Eby for Keppel & Co. From the description of...

Tyler, William Royall.

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Le Garrec, Maurice (French publisher, active 1921)

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Lane, William Coolidge, 1859-1931

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Lane graduated from Harvard in 1881 and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Coolidge Lane, 1887-1931. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972806 ...

Naumberg, Nettie G.

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Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956

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L. Hollingsworth Wood was a Quaker attorney, born at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., the son of James and Emily (Hollingsworth) Wood. His sister was Carolena Wood (1871-1936). Wood graduated from Haverford College (1896) and Columbia University Law School (1899). He worked actively in the areas of peace, civil rights, and African American and Quaker education. From the description of Prison Reform Papers, 1913-1937. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 56362168 L. Hollingsworth Wood, ...

Mayer, August L. (August Liebmann), 1885-

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Epithet: of the National Art Gallery, Munich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000135.0x000359 ...

Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953

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Tyler was an art collector, and advisor to Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss in the development of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection of Byzantine art. From the description of Papers of Royall Tyler, 1902-1967 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973320 ...

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...

Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1869-1943.

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Rorimer, James J. (James Joseph), 1905-1966

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Museum director and art historian; New York City. Rorimer was the motivating force in the development of the Cloisters. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole Gory in Paris, his employment by the Metropolitan Museum of Art began in 1927 and continued until his death. He was curator of the Department of Medieval Art (1934-1955), director of the Cloisters (1949-1966) and director and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1955-1966). During WWII, Rorimer served i...

Kuhn de Prorok, Byron, 1896-

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Middeldorf, Ulrich, 1901-1983

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German-American art historian who specialized in the areas of sculpture, bronzes and the applied arts. He was director of the Art Institute of Chicago and, in Florence, served as director and librarian of the Kunsthistorisches Institute; also was director of the Longhi Institute. From the description of Ulrich Middeldorf Papers, ca. 1925-1981. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80148470 Biographical/Historical Note ...

Berenson, Lawrence.

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Carrington, Fitz Roy, 1869-1954

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Fitz Roy Carrington first met Carl Zigrosser when the latter was hired by Frederick Keppel & Co. Their correspondence began when Carrington became curator of prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Zigrosser went to Weyhe Gallery. Their friendship continued after Carrington went back to a commercial print dealer, M. Knoedler & Co., and on into Carrington's retirement. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1917-1953, n.d. (University of Pennsylvani...

Winternitz, Emanuel

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A native of Vienna, Emanuel Winternitz (1898-1983), who had emigrated to the U.S. in 1938, was appointed to oversee the collection of musical instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art around 1942; when the musical instrument collection became an official department of the museum (in 1948 or 1949) he became the department's first curator. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1947, 1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864827 ...

Margules, De Hirsh, 1899-1965

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De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965) was a painter and a poet from New York, N.Y. From the description of De Hirsh Margules papers, 1888-2001, bulk 1923-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 422877098 Painter, poet; New York, N.Y.; b. 1899; d. 1965. From the description of De Hirsh Margules papers, 1899-1998 (bulk 1928-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84653624 From the description of De Hirsh Margules papers, 1888-1998 (bulk 1923-1965). (Unknown). WorldCat ...

Burden, William A. M. (William Armistead Moale), 1906-1984

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Diplomat, museum president. From the description of Reminiscences of William Armistead Moale Burden : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527092 ...

Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000

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Art museum director. From the description of Reminiscences of Perry Townsend Rathbone : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723354 Perry Townsend Rathbone (1911-2000) was a museum director from New York, N.Y. He was a curator at the Detroit Institute of Art, 1936-1940, director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1940-1955, and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1954-1972. At the time o...

Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975

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Donald Mitchell Oenslager was born on March 7, 1902, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Following graduation from Harvard University in 1923, he was an instructor in scenic design at Middlebury College, Vermont. In 1925, his former Harvard instructor, George Pierce Baker, appointed him to the faculty of the Department of Drama of the Yale School of Fine Arts. Oenslager taught design at Yale until his retirement in 1970. While at Yale, he designed sets for over 250 plays, operas, ballets, and musicals ...

Huth, Hans, 1892-1977

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Day, Florence E.

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Chase, George Henry, 1874-1952

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Chase (Harvard, A.B., 1896) taught classical archaeology and served as Dean of the Graduate School at Harvard from 1925 to 1939. From the description of Papers of George Henry Chase, 1926-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973285 ...

Nathan, Walter L. (Walter Ludwig), 1905-1961

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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...

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...

Scholle, Hardinge.

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Seaver, Esther Isabel

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Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938

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Reisner, George Andrew, 1867-1942

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Reisner graduated from Harvard in 1889 and taught Semitic languages, Semitic archaeology and Egyptology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George A.R. Reisner, 1932-1948 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973161 ...

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...

Siple, Walter H.

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

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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 ...

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...

Buck, Paul Herman, 1899-1978

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Buck (Harvard, Ph.D., 1924) taught history at Harvard, served as Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Provost of the University, and Director of the Harvard Library. From the description of Papers of Paul Herman Buck, 1913-1975 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973290 Author, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Herman Buck : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569413...

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. ...

Rewald, John, 1912-1994

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Honorary Trustee; art historian, guest curator/director of Museum exhibitions. From the description of Oral history, 1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577837 Art historian, writer, educator (New York, N.Y.) Died Feb. 2, 1994. From the description of John Rewald interview, 1972 Nov. 16 - 1973 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220182292 John Rewald (1912-1994) was an art historian, writer, and educator from New York, N.Y. From the de...

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...

Binyon, Cicely Margaret Powell, "Mrs. Lawrence Binyon."

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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 ...

Friedlaender, Walter F., 1873-1966

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Walter Ferdinand Friedlaender was born in 1873 in Glogau, now Glogow, Poland, the son of Sigismund Friedlaender and Anna Joachimsthal. His parents died while he was young, and at thirteen he went to live with an older sister in Berlin. He attended the University of Berlin, and received his doctorate in Sanskrit in 1898; his dissertation, a translation with annotations of a portion of the Mahabarata, was published two years later. Shortly thereafter he went to London to study at the ...

Benesch, Otto, 1896-1964

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Oppenheimer, Henry, 1859 or 1860-1932

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Hathaway, Calvin S.

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

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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...

Philipps, Duncan, 1886-1966.

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Mower, Martin.

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Root, Edward Wales, -1956

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Art collector and instructor; Clinton, N.Y. Collector of predominately American avant-garde art. Taught art at Hamilton College. Edward is the son of Elihu Root. From the description of Edward Wales Root papers, 1896-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80507176 Art collector and art instructor; Clinton, N.Y. Collector of predominately American avant-garde art. Taught art at Hamilton College. He was the son of Elihu Root. ...

Whiting, Helen Adele, 1885-

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Saarinen, Aline B. (Aline Bernstein), 1914-1972

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Aline Saarinen (1914-1972) was an art and architectural critic in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; She worked for the New York Times as an art and architectural critic. She married architect Eero Saarinen, the architect, after the dissolution of her first marriage to Joseph Louchheim. Aline Saarinen was the sister of art dealer Charles Alan. Eero was born in Helinski, Finland, son of architect Eliel Saarinen. From the description of Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 19...

Taff, A. Eric.

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Wilde, Johannes Janse de

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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...

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 ...

Straus, Percy Selden 1876-1944

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On December 11, 1944 the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston received the bequest of paintings and sculptures known as the Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection. Comprised of over eighty works of art, the collection is dominated by European paintings dating from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries and includes significant examples of Flemish, Sienese, Florentine, Ferrarese, Venetian, German, and English origin. Though the Strauses were permanent residents of New York, they chose to place their...

Freedberg, S. J. (Sydney Joseph), 1914-1997

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Sydney Joseph Freedberg (1914- ) was professor of fine arts at Harvard University for 30 years, held the Arthur Kingsley Porter chair and served as acting director of the Fogg Art Museum. From the description of Papers of Sydney Joseph Freedberg, 1966-1976 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76976131 ...

Baerwald, Emil.

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Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987

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Architectural historian, critic, museum director, and influential teacher. Died 1987. From the description of Henry-Russell Hitchcock letters to Dorothy Stroud and John N. Summerson, 1946-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83551893 Architectural historian. From the description of Lectures on architecture, 1948 Jan.-May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79723075 Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an architectural historian. From the description of Henr...

Kann, Alphonse

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b. 1870. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81202336 ...

Foundoukidis, Euripide, 1894-....

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Lehman, Philip, 1861-1947

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Keppel, David, 1877-

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David Keppel was President of Frederick Keppel & Co., the print dealer, Zigrosser's first employer in the art world. His brother was Frederick Keppel. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1912-1943, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155901769 ...

Churchill, Alfred Vance, 1864-1949

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Alfred Vance Churchill was born on August 14, 1864 in Oberlin, Ohio. He was the son of Charles Henry Churchill, a professor at Oberlin College and his second wife, Henrietta Vance Churchill. Alfred was the second child of Henrietta Vance Churchill, and was the sixth of Charles Henry Churchill's nine children. After studies at Oberlin, Alfred studied art in Berlin, Leipzig, and Paris from 1887-1890. He married Marie Marschall in 1890. Their son Louis Nelson Churchill was born in 1897. In 1892 Chu...

Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962

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Painter; Massachusetts. From the description of Charles Hopkinson and Hopkinson family papers, 1890-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132993 ...

Peabody, Francis Weld, 1881-1927

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Peabody (Harvard, M.D. 1907) was the first resident physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1913-1921, and after 1922 served as a consulting physician. He taught medicine at the Harvard Medical School, 1920-1927, and was first director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at the Boston City Hospital, 1922-1927. He was one of the first doctors to make clinical applications of the methods of physiology to diseases of the heart and lungs. From the description of Notebooks of Franc...

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...

Allen, W. G. Russell.

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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 ...

Ganz, Paul Leonhard.

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Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993

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Beaumont Newhall, the founder of the art history of photography, was the first Curator of Photography at MOMA and then at George Eastman House. He authored numerous books, articles and reviews about photography. From the description of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall papers, 1843-1993. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79626249 Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was an art administrator and art historian from Rochester, N.Y. From the description of Oral histor...

Foucher, A. (Alfred), 1865-1952

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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...

Rowe, Louis Earle.

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James, Macgill.

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Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969

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Vignier, Charles, 1863-1934

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Mack, Julian W. (Julian William), 1866-1943

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Lawyer, judge, and law professor at Northwestern University and University of Chicago. From the description of Papers, 1854-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70947183 ...

Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978

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Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968

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Erwin Panofsky was a German Jewish art historian. He emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and subsequently taught at New York University, Princeton University, and Harvard University. He became widely known and very influential in the field of iconography. One of his most popular works is Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939, reissued 1972). From the guide to the Erwin Panofsky Letters to Mrs. Alfred Barr, 1932-1967, (Princeton University. ...

Mariano, Nicky

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Lehmann, Karl, 1894-1960

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Gordon, Douglas H. (Douglas Huntly)

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Douglas Huntly Gordon (born 1902) earned his Harvard A.B. 1926 and Harvard LL.B. 1928. His life as a lawyer coincided with interests in collecting books, specializing in French books, and in historic preservation of architecture in Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland. From the description of Student papers and exams, 1922-1924. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064239 ...

Hovey, Walter Read, 1895-

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Valentin, Curt, 1902-1954

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Art dealer and gallery director; New York, N.Y. Valentin came to the U.S. from Germany in 1937. He worked at the Buchholz Gallery, which he took over and renamed the Curt Valentin Gallery. The gallery closed in 1955. From the description of Catalogs of exhibitions organized by Curt Valentin, 1929-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122514918 Curt Valentin was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1902. After completing his education, he became a...

Swarzenski, Georg, 1876-1957

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Epithet: Director, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x000207 ...

Askew, R. Kirk (Ralph Kirk), 1903-1974

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Gallery director. Owned Durlacher Brothers from 1937 through ca. 1969. From the description of R. Kirk Askew papers, 1928-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122389812 ...

Wind, Edgar, 1900-1971

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Edgar Wind was a German-born art historian, who specialized in Renaissance iconography. He was involved with the Warburg Institute. He taught at various institutions in the U.S., including Smith College (1944-55), as well as at Oxford University (1955-1967). Marion Dodd, Smith College class of 1906, was a co-founder of the Hampshire Bookshop in Northampton. Esther Cloudman Dunn was a professor at Smith College. From the description of [Letter] 1953 Christmas, Northampton, Mass. [to] ...

Feist, Hans, 1887-

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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...

Hopper, Jo N. (Josephine Nivison), 1883-1968

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Dorothy Varian papers, 1902-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864474 Dorothy Varian, b. 1895; d. 1987, Painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Dorothy Varian, 1980 Dec. 6-7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646398711 ...