Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006.

Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954

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Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954) was an American author and Francis Bacon scholar. Walter and his wife Louise (1879–1953) were among the most notable U.S.-based art collectors of the first half of the 20th century. While Walter was born into Pittsburgh steel wealth, it was the family fortune of his wife Louise, made in Massachusetts textile manufacturing, that would allow the couple to rise to prominence in the world of avant-garde art collecting, and place their homes, first in New York C...

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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

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...

Cheek, Leslie, 1908-

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Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va. Died 1992. From the description of Leslie Cheek interview, 1982 June 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185204 Leslie Cheek, Jr. was born in 1908. He was professor of fine arts at the College of William and Mary and director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He married Mary Tyler Freeman, the daughter of Douglas Southall Freeman. (After Cheek's death she married John Mcclenahan.)In the 1930's, Leslie Cheek and ...

Posner, Donald.

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Abrams, Harry N.

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Publisher, New York, N.Y.; b. 1905; d. 1979. From the description of Harry N. Abrams interview, 1972 Mar. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84170030 Harry N. Abrams (1905-1979) was a publisher from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Harry N. Abrams, 1972 Mar. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595031 b.1905; d.1979. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous unca...

Kraeling, Carl H. (Carl Hermann), 1897-1966

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Laurent, V. (Vitalien), -1973

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Marceau, Henri, 1896-1969

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Art administrator; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Henri Marceau interview, [ca. 1960]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195003 From the description of Oral history interview with Henri Marceau, [circa 1960] [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026019 ...

Cook, Walter W. S.

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American art historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Pamplona, Spain, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1949 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526748 ...

Lowry, W. McNeil (Wilson McNeil), 1913-

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Art administrator; director of humanities and arts, Ford Foundation, 1957-1964, vice-president of Ford Foundation, 1964-1974. From the description of W. McNeil Lowry interviews, 1981 Oct. 19-1982 Apr. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220187886 W. McNeil Lowry, art administrator, director of humanities and arts, Ford Foundation, 1957-1964, and vice-president of Ford Foundation, 1964-1974. From the description of Oral history interview with W. McNeil Lowry, 1981 ...

Strater, Henry, 1896-1987

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Painter; Ogunquit, Me. Died 1987. From the description of Henry Strater interview, 1973 Sept. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190451 From the description of Henry Strater interview, 1971 Oct. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190465 Director of the Museum of Art of Ogunquit and artist. From the description of Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1961-1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213363604 Painter; Ogunquit...

Jaffé, Michael 1923-

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Whittemore, Thomas, 1871-1950

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Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983

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German-born art and architectural historian, editor and professor, Nikolaus Pevsner was a scholar of European architecture, 19th and 20th century design, Italian Baroque painting and German sculpture. He worked with the Dresden Gallery from 1924 to 1928 and taught at Göttingen before emigrating to England in 1933. He subsequently taught at Birkbeck College and the Courtauld Institute, and lectured as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge and Oxford. He was a member of the editorial board of the A...

Walker, John, 1906-1995

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Lankheit, Klaus Albrecht, 1961-

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Wasserman, Jeanne L.

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Art collectors; Boston, Mass. Jeanne (1915- ) was a curator; Max (1913-1986), a businessman. The 180 Beacon St. Collection of Contemporary Art was assembled in the 1960s by the Wassermans, with the advice of a committee consisting of Dorothy Miller of the Museum of Modern Art, H. Harvard Arnason of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, curator Sam Hunter, and Jeanne Wasserman, for the 17-storey apartment building built by the Wasserman Development Corporation. The commit...

Freitag, Wolfgang M.

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Kitzinger, Ernst, 1912-

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Biographical/Historical Note Ernst Kitzinger, an art historian specializing in Byzantine, early Christian, and early medieval art, was born in Munich, Germany on December 27, 1912. He wrote and lectured on a wide variety of artistic media, but is perhaps best known for his scholarship on Byzantine mosaics. The diverse research topics that make up his life's work are informed by the premise that form has meaning and that changes in form and st...

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...

Hoogewerff, G. J. (Godefridus Joannes), 1884-

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Slive, Seymour, 1920-....

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Sardis (Extinct city).

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Pulitzer, Joseph, 1913-1993

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Joseph Pulitzer (1913-1993) was a collector from St. Louis, Mo. From the description of Oral history interview with Joseph Pulitzer, 1978 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646396936 Art collector; St. Louis, Mo. Born 1913. From the description of Joseph Pulitzer interview, 1985 July 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220180658 Art collector; St. Louis, Mo. From the description of Joseph Pulitzer lecture, 1988 Apr. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Lavin, Irving, 1927-....

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Coolidge, John, 1913-1995

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

Bush-Brown, Albert.

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Simonson, Lee, 1888-1967

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Lee Simonson and his wife, Carolyn Simonson. From the description of Letters, 1928-1962, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155876028 Simonson (1888-1967) was an American scenographer. He graduated from Harvard College in 1909. From the guide to the Papers, 1919-1938., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library) Simonson (1888-1967) was an Amer...

Turner, Evan H.

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Evan H. Turner (born 1927), an art historian and scholar, was the Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) from 1964 to 1978, leading the Museum through a period of significant growth and transformation. He created new art departments for American and 20th Century Art, and the innovative Department of Urban Outreach (DUO) to promote art across the City of Philadelphia. These progressive activities were matched by a groundbreaking exhibition in 1973, the Marcel Duchamp retros...

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert.

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Holderbaum, James

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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. ...

Bothmer, Bernard V., 1912-1993

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Hibbard, Howard, 1928-1984

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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 Federation of Arts.

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Bober, Harry, 1915-1988

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Dunlap, Charles E.

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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...

Faison, S. Lane (Samson Lane), 1907-2006

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S. Lane Faison (1907-2006) was an art historian of Williamstown, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with S. Lane Faison, 1981 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710018659 S. Lane (Samson Lane) Faison, Jr., born Washington, D.C. 16 November 1907; died Williamstown, Mass. 11 November 2006; Williams College Class of 1929; member of the Williams College Art Department, 1936-1976, chair of the Department, 1940-1970; Director of the Williams College Museum o...

Ross, Marvin.

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Mitten, David Gordon

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Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

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...

Sert, José Luis (1902-1983).

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Josep Lluis Sert received a degree in architecture in 1929 from Barcelona's ESA in the 1930s. Among the leading young Spanish architects in the 1930s, he gained an international reputation with his design for the Spanish Pavilion built for the 1937 Paris Exposition. Emigrating to the United states in 1941, he was from 1941-1958 a founding partner in Town Planning Associates and in 1955, he opened his own firm, Sert Jackson, & Associates, in Cambridge, MA. SJA's work included residences, muse...

Laughlin, Clarence John

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Clarence John Laughlin was born in 1905 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He is widely credited as the first surrealist photographer in the United States and is best known for his images of the American South. Laughlin died on January 2, 1985, and is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France. From the description of Clarence John Laughlin scrapbooks, 1880-1920. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 615635999 Louisiana photographer. From the des...

Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969

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Deknatel, Frederick B.

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Fry's thesis advisor at Harvard University. From the description of Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1958-1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 212070832 ...

Murdock, Kenneth Ballard, 1895-1975

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Murdock graduated from Harvard in 1916; taught English at Harvard and served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. From the description of Papers of Kenneth B. Murdock, 1932?-1971 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973140 ...

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 ...

Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis), 1891-

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Ingersoll was a lawyer, art collector, and President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; McCarter a Philadelphia painter. From the description of R. Sturgis Ingersoll papers related to Henry McCarter, 1896-1944 (bulk 1930-1943). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455126 Ingersoll was a lawyer and President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Lipchitz a sculptor. From the description of R. Sturgis Ingersoll selected correspondence with Jacques Lipchitz, 1959-1962. (U...

Ford foundation

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Philanthropic organization established in 1936 by Henry and Edsel Ford from profits of the Ford Motor Company. From the description of Grant files, [ca. 1936-1986]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532303 ...

Bannister, Turpin C. (Turpin Chambers), 1904-1982

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Architectural historian and educator. From the description of Turpin C. Bannister papers, 1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449077 Bannister held degrees from Denison, Columbia, and Harvard. He served as architecture dean at Alabama Polytechnic Institute and at the University of Florida. He received numerous awards and honors, and was a noted historian of architecture. From the description of Lantern slides, 1904-1948. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id...

Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984

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Barr, Margaret Scolari, 1901-1987

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Margaret Scolari Barr (1901-1987) was married to Alfred Barr, the director of the Museum of Modern Art and lived in New York. Mrs. Barr taught at Vassar (Italian) and the Spence School (art history), wrote several books, and translated others. She worked closely with her husband, on numerous of his projects. From the description of Oral history interview with Margaret Scolari Barr concerning Alfred H. Barr, 1974 Feb. 22-May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

Beale, Arthur.

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Meeks, Carroll L. V. (Carroll Louis Vanderslice), 1907-1966

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Carroll Louis Vanderslice Meeks (1907-1966) was an American architectural historian. Published titles include Italian Architecture, 1750-1914 and The Railroad Station: An Architectural History . From the guide to the Carroll L. V. Meeks Negatives, 1971, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Carroll Louis Vanderslice Meeks was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on May 21, 1907. He received his Ph.B. degree from Yale University in 1928, his B.F.A. i...

Rosenwald, Lessin J. (Lessing Julius), 1891-1979.

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Hazen, Joseph H.

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Berger, Robert W.

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Wittkower, Rudolf

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Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971) was professor of art history at Columbia University, 1956-1969. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1923]-1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122515077 ...

Ackerman, James Stokes

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James S. Ackerman (1919- ) was appointed professor of fine arts at Harvard University in 1960 and was chairman of the Fine Arts Department 1963-1968. From the description of Papers of James S. Ackerman, 1963-1975 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76976132 Art historian; Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born 1919. From the description of James S. Ackerman interview, 1991 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220210018 James Ackerman (1919- ...

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 ...

Gilbert, Creighton E

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Colin, Ralph F., 1900-1985

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Art collector; New York, N.Y. From the description of Ralph F. Colin interview, 1969 Aug. 15 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 245522763 From the description of Ralph F. Colin interview, 1965 Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220192497 From the description of Ralph F. Colin interview, 1969 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185289 Ralph F. Colin (1900-1985) was an art collector from New York, N.Y. From the descripti...

Pulitzer, Emily Rauh

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Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Art collector of St. Louis, Mo. From the description of Oral history interview with Emily Rauh Pulitzer, 1985 Aug. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646396939 Emily Rauh Pulitzer is an art collector from St. Louis, Mo. From the description of Oral history interview with Emily Rauh Pulitzer, 1985 Aug. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864519 Art collector; St. Louis, Mo. From the description of Emily Rauh Pulitzer inter...

Eastman, Alvan C.

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Buck, Richard D.

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Wick, Peter A.

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Ford, Franklin L. (Franklin Lewis), 1920-2003

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Ford earned his Harvard AM in 1948 and his PhD in 1950. From the description of Bolingbroke : Platonist or pamphleteer? / Franklin L. Ford. December 13, 1946. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512622 ...

Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham, Sir, 1913-1994

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d. 1994. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82753801 Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (1913-1994), art historian of Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture, was educated at Oxford and became director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (1967-1973) and the British Museum (1974-1976). He moved to the United States in 1977 to become consulting chairman of European painting for the Metropolitan Museum in New Yo...

Clark, Anthony M.

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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...

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...

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...

Janson, H.W. (Horst Woldemar), 1913-1982

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Field, Richard S.

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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...

Brandt, Kathleen Weil-Garris, 1934-....

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Association of Art Museum Directors

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Roskill, Mark W. (Mark Wentworth), 1933-2000

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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...

Seligman, Germain

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Germain Seligman (1893-1978), art dealer and writer, joined his father's company, Jacques Seligman & Co, Inc., in 1920 as a partner and president of the New York office. Upon the death of his father in 1923, Germain took over as president of both the Paris and New York offices. His 1969 Roger de la Fresnaye catalogue raisonné follows from his earlier 1945 monograph on the artist. The 1969 version added more detailed information about the artist and his works and included many illustrations....

Malcove, Lillian 1902-

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Tyler, William R

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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. ...

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 ...

Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965

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Russian-born, American illustrator and author of children's books; Newbery Honor Book citation for Seven Simeons : A Russian Tale in 1938. From the description of Papers, 1924-1963. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62680450 Russian-born, American illustrator and author of children's books. From the description of The apple tree : production material, [1926?]. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62443396 ...

Prown, Jules David.

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Jules Prown, noted art historian and educator whose interests range from American colonial artwork to material culture, was born in Freehold, New Jersey, on March 14, 1930. He was graduated from Lafayette College in 1951 and earned masters degrees from Harvard University in Fine Arts and the University of Delaware in Early American Culture. In 1961, he obtained his doctorate degree from Harvard University, where he was the Edward R. Bacon Art Scholar. That same year, Prown went to Yale Universit...

Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy)

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Chetham, Charles

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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...

Rosenfield, John M

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Barolsky, Paul, 1941-....

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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...

Wilson, Thomas James, 1902-1969

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Wilson was director of the Harvard University Press. From the description of Papers of Thomas James Wilson, 1949-1970 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973279 Wilson was the director of the Harvard University Press. He was the translator for the American edition of: Letters of Romain Rolland and Malwida von Meysenbug, 1890-1891. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1933. From the description of Photographs of Romain Rolland, 1933. (Harvard University...

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...

Gettens, Rutherford J. (Rutherford John)

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

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Sekler, Eduard F. (Eduard Franz)

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Welch, Stuart Cary

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Meiss, Millard

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Art historian, Princeton, N.J. Born 1904 Died 1975. From the description of Millard Meiss papers, [ca. 1920-1975]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576787 ...

Mariano, Nicky

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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 ...

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...

Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (Program).

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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 ...

Feininger, T. Lux

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T. Lux Feininger, Painter and educator of Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with T. Lux Feininger, 1987 May 19-1988 Mar. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397039 Painter. educator (Cambridge, Mass.). From the description of T. Lux Feininger interviews, 1987 May 19-1988 Mar. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220182189 T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011) was a painter and educator of Cambridge, Mass. From the descrip...

Krautheimer, Richard, 1897-1994

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Architectural historian. From the description of Lectures on Baroque architecture, ca. 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81284869 ...

Hempel, Eberhard, 1886-1967

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Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976

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Sculptor. From the description of Alexander Calder correspondence, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452461 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Alexander Calder, 1971 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395903 B. 1898, d. 1976. From the description of Alexander Calder artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228431975 ...

Eitner, Lorenz

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Lorenz Eitner was professor of art at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Museum of Art from 1963 until his retirement in 1989. From the description of The development of the Stanford Museum, 1964-1988 : report, ca. 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122541112 ...

American association of museums

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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...

Hartt, Frederick.

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The art historian Frederick Hartt was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1914. He received his B.A. from Columbia College and his Ph.D. from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis (1949-1960). During this period, he was instrumental in forming the university's collection of American abstract expressionist art. He later taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1960-1967), and finally at the University of Virginia (1967-1984). ...

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...

Carter, David G., 1921-

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Eisler, Colin T.

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Robbins, Daniel.

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

Loehr, Max

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Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969

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Painter, photographer; Roosevelt, N.J. From the description of Ben Shahn interview, 1964 Apr. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82606033 Artist Ben Shahn was a Russian Jewish immigrant to New York. He apprenticed with a lithographer, studied at several New York colleges, and toured Europe, acquiring the skills to express his artistic ability. He is chiefly remembered as a muralist, painter, photographer, and printmaker, visually chronicling America during ...

De Leiris, Alain

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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...