Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fogg where is treasured a secret as valuable as any the military might be keeping, they no longer like to discuss with outsiders the closer-to-home possibilities of the war. But war has come to The Fogg Art Museum, making itself felt in every department and function. Any conception the undergraduate might have of the "ivory tower" on Quincy Street would be shattered if he knew of the realistic defense measures taken by Director Edward W. Forbes and his staff...
...story no one at The Fogg dares tell these days is where the large irreplacable portion of its $5,000,000 collection has been hidden for the duration. All of the most precious works usually in the Fogg galleries have been whisked away to safer storage "in the country". Officials do admit, however, that none is with the exhibits from the National Gallery now in Colorado...
...over picture of the Fogg Art Museum's stake in the wartime preservation of art must include a full consideration of its ranking position among art museums of the nation. A good portion of the responsibility for guiding the preparations of other art institutions has fallen to The Fogg. In March representatives of 15 museums and galleries throughout the country were welcomed here by Director Forbes to study the protection of works of art in wartime. Discussion ranged from how to safeguard against diseases affecting paper and linen in a new location, and the shattering of glass after bombing...
...museum the size of The Fogg, its influence on American collecting, exhibiting, and research has been tremendous. This effect, highlighted by the world crisis, has been the result of two factors: the men The Fogg has produced and the men that have produced The Fogg. Through it courses, facilities, and above all its connection with the Harvard student body, The Fogg has been able to develop a host of professional and amateur experts who have been playing a vital role in art in America for the last quarter of a century...
Almost 200 museum posts are now held by men who have studied at Fogg with Professor Forbes, or who have taken Professor Sachs' famous museum course as graduate students. This number includes the directors of 29 museums, such as the New York Museum of Modern Art, and others in cities like Chicago, Cincinnatti, Buffalo, and San Francisco. The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is also a Harvard alumnus...