[Oral History with Irving Rabb] [sound recording] 2005 June 20.

Harvard University

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

Rabb, Irving,

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Irving Rabb was born February 4, 1913 in Roxbury, MA. He attended grammar school in Brookline, MA, then went on to the Boston Latin School before attending Harvard University. Mr. Rabb's family is well-known for bringing the Stop & Shop chain of grocery stores into prominence. While at Harvard he began in the Business School but later switched his concentration to fine arts, figuring that he was going to spend his life as a business man, so he should take the time to study something he actua...

Severini, Gino, 1883-1966

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Italian painter. From the description of Letter from Gino Severini, Meudon, ca. 1949. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77935809 ...

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...

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y.; d. 1988. From the description of A Conversation with Louise Nevelson, 1980 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123419967 Sculptor; interviewee d.1988. From the description of Reminiscences of Louise Nevelson : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419737 Sculptor (New York, N.Y.) Died in 1988. From the description of Louise Nevelson interviews, 1964 Ju...

Rabb, Charlotte.

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Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

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Wood, Barry, 1909-1970

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Slive, Seymour, 1920-....

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Boston Latin School (Mass.)

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Blake, Robert Pierpont‏ (1886-1950).‏

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Robert Pierpont Blake (1886-1950), historian and librarian, was an Instructor in History (1920-1923), Tutor (1920), Assistant Professor of History (1923-1928), Associate Professor of History (1928), Professor of History (1930) at Harvard, and also served as Director of the Harvard University Library (1928-1937). While at Harvard, Blake taught the Georgian and Armenian languages, courses on the economic development of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, and on the Byzantine and Ottoman ...

Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954

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Hooton taught anthropology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Earnest Albert Hooton, 1932-1941 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973070 Anthropologist. From the description of Autobiography of Earnest Albert Hooton: typescript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456362 Earnest Albert Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin on November 20, 1887. After graduating from Lawrence College ( Appleton, Wis...

Harvard Art Museums

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The Harvard University Art Museums consist of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum (1895- ), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (1901- ) in Werner Otto Hall, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The Fine Arts Library (1962- ) is maintained by the Fogg Museum. From the description of General information by and about the Harvard University Art Museums. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77067568 ...

Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964

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Sculptor, painter, printmaker, and teacher. b. Kiev, Ukraine, May 30, 1887; significant in Cubist movement during his years in Paris, 1908-1921; came to United States in 1923; operated his own school in Paris, 1912, an endeavor that continued throughout his life in Berlin, New York City, Woodstock, N.Y., Chicago, and Los Angeles. Invented animated painting, known as "Archipentura," ca. 1924 (U.S. patent issued 1927).; d. February 23, 1964 in New York, N.Y. Fr...

Marlborough Gallery.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modigliani, Amedeo, 1884-1920

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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...

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...

Zelljadt, Katja,

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Harvard Business Press

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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...

Ferrante, Kirsta,

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