Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pusey was anxious, when she arrived in Cambridge in the summer of 1953, to decorate her Quincy Street home with some original works of art. The Fogg Museum seemed the logical place to look, especially since it loans out a large number of originals. Of the paintings available, however, Mrs. Pusey could find only two to her liking and had to turn to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for the rest...
This episode illustrates the essential nature of a problem that has grown acute for Fogg since World War II and for which there is no foreseeable solution. According to Museum director John P. Coolidge '35, the problem is this: although Fogg is doing as many things as it can with its material and staff, both of these are limited by the financial resources available to the Museum...
...post-war inflation has cut back the staff, for instance, from 96 persons in 1938 to approximately 60 today. The Fogg's slide collection has an amazing 100 percent circulation, and of the 500 reproductions available for the decoration of student rooms, all but 15 or 20 are loaned out annually...
...undergraduate oversubscription is a problem of space and staff, but it also reflects an undercurrent among the nation's cultured that means greater demands on an already overburdened Fogg. Part of the demand comes not from the United States but from abroad, largely as a consequence of the War and our new position vis-a-vis Europe, in culture as well as in finance...
...painting. While he owns works by Bracque, Picasso, Leger, and Gris, he protests, in his self-effacing manner, that "I know nothing about aesthetics as a professional discipline or as a philosophical study. But the experience," he continues, "of making a judgment and enjoying a painting in the Fogg--or reading a poem--has been a vital part of my education...