Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the list of Fogg's children is long and noteworthy, its guardians are even more impressive. Rulers of the roost and general patron saints are the members of the Visiting Committee appointed annually by the Board of Overseers. Chaired by Winthrop Aldrich, president of the Chase National Bank, the committee this year consists of the usual variety of collectors and scholars, including such notables as Robert Woods Bliss, former ambassador to Argentina; David E. Finley, director of the National Gallery; Everett V. Meeks, chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Yale; and Charles R. Morey, chairman of the same...
...Visiting Committee may be the nominal head of The Fogg, but it is the staff of 92 which makes the intricate and highly specialized plant run. Keystones in the entire hierarchy are Director Edward W. Forbes and Associate Director Sachs. Forbes, a grandson of Emerson from whom he takes his middle name, Waldo, has headed the Fogg staff since 1909, when the galleries were housed in the Old Museum now known as Hunt Hall. In 1915 Sachs joined him and the two opened an era of expansion in plant, collections, and funds...
During and before the World War, The Fogg ran on an annual budget of $3,000 above the $5,000 the University contributed for teachers and maintenance. The two partners did much to keep their charge out of deep water during those years and added to the collections already valued at two millions...
Beneath the directors, who also run the Germanic Museum, the Semitic Museum and affiliated Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D. C., The Fogg branches into a network of specialized divisions. The Department of Conservation is probably the most fascinating with its tasks of detecting art fakes and of restoring damaged works. Under George L. Stout, who spends part of his time at Boston's Gardner Museum, is arrayed a staff of six specialists in this line...
Functioning with medical preciseness, the unique technical department has an elaborate system for inspection, diagnosis, and treatment of paintings acquired by the museum or sent in by private owners for a check-up. If a forgery is revealed in a work not belonging to The Fogg, it is always kept secret for "diplomatic" reasons...