Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several years back a painting, supposedly by a famous Renaissance artist of about 1510, arrived in New York but its owner could find no purchaser. It was sent to The Fogg for inspection with complete data on its history of being stolen from a European collection and smuggled into the country. It was certified by two German and one French expert, but preliminary examination by Stout's department showed immediately that all was not right. When the glue was finally tested, it was quickly seen that the picture could not possibly have been painted before 1820. The owner was informed...
...Alan Burrough's Department of X-Ray and are removed and the blank spaces carefully filled in to resemble the original. Actual paint, however, is never retouched or covered with new work. Perhaps the most ticklish job of this type was done in 1923, although not by the Fogg technical department, on a Fogg picture now exhibited in a second-floor gallery. Purchased in Italy by a collector, the Crespi Madonna was severely damaged when the ship caught fire. The Fogg directors bought the damaged picture, blistered and flaked as it was. At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
When a new work of art is brought into the museum, it first passes through the domain of Superintendent Milton Worthley where it is unpacked by Elmer Heaps, former Gloucester sailmaker who is now The Fogg's carpenter. Then the work is sent through a fixed routine from the registrar to photographers to technical department and finally to a gallery or the storeroom. This latter, a spacious hall in the basement, already contains hundreds of miscellaneous items from the chair President Conant sits in at Commencement and the University's Great Salt to a bottle with Dean Swift's seal...
...Fogg's collected treasures have the dual purpose of serving as common museum exhibits and as laboratory specimens for student study. No artistic work will be accepted on the condition that it be constantly on display, and the contents of the galleries are changed periodically with the aid of a clever measuring device which allows one man alone to hang a painting exactly 62 inches from the floor. For paintings which are needed for study but which can find no place in the galleries there is the Picture Study Room, consisting of 22 rolling screens for these exhibits...
Additional features of the building include the Print Room under Curator Jakob Rosenburg, specialist on Rembrandt, who has accumulated the most widely representative collection of modern prints to date. Drawings are under the care of Agnes Mongan, who with Professor Sachs wrote "Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum," a Fine Arts best seller...