Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fogg Art Museum is rapidly nearing completion. The mosaic floor has already been laid, the stucco work is finished, and the wood work is nearly completed, so that comparatively little remains to be done. The building will probably be entirely finished in about a month...
...work on the mosaic floor in the Fogg Art Museum is almost finished. The stucco work in the front rooms on the first floor, and in all the rooms on the second floor is completed. It will be some time, however, before the large lecture room will be finished...
...better accommodations in Cambridge were forthcoming, this grant was twice renewed. The expiration of the last term is due in 1896, and the question which is now exciting attention is, whether at that time the engravings are to be restored to Harvard to find their place in the Fogg Art Museum, or are to be again re-granted to the museum in Boston...
...present the Museum of Fine Arts devotes to the storing and exhibition of the two collections, six entire rooms. Should Harvard propose to accommodate them as satisfactorily, there would be found to be little or no room left in the Fogg Museum for other works of art. That, however, is not particularly to the point. The trustees of the Boston art museum would naturally be glad to retain the engravings in their own keeping, and one gentleman prominently connected with the museum suggested yesterday that such an arrangement would not be incompatible with Harvard's using the collection as much...
...will not be the transfer of the collections to Harvard has, however, been feared by the writer of one article, which appeared in the last issue of the Cambridge Tribune. The article purports to be by a Harvard professor. After complaining at length, and with considerable justice, that the Fogg Museum is far from being what its donor intended it to be, he says in reference to the Gray and Randall collections, that "the trustees of the art museum in Boston evidently have no idea of surrendering them; neither is there any inclination on the part of the Harvard authorities...