Papers of Daniel Robbins and Seymour Slive, 1959-2003.

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Papers of Daniel Robbins and Seymour Slive, 1959-2003.

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These papers of Fogg Art Museum Directors Daniel Robbins and Seymour Slive document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Most of Robbins' papers were created during his administration of the museum, from 1971 to 1974; most of Slive's papers are from his tenure as acting director and then director, from 1974 to 1982. The papers consist primarily of correspondence and also include photographs and printed material.

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Harvard University Art Museum

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The Busch-Reisinger Museum was founded in 1903 as the Germanic Museum, by Kuno Francke, Professor of German Literature at Harvard. Francke obtained funding from the Busch and Reisinger families to build the present structure, which opened in 1921. In 1930 The Germanic Museum became part of the Fine Arts Department, under the direction of Professor Charles Kuhn. It was renamed the Busch-Reisinger Museum in 1950. From the description of Records of the Busch-Reisinger Museum 1900-1984 (...

Slive, Seymour, 1920-....

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Fogg Art Museum.

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

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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...