Word: fogg
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Kuhn has developed the Busch-Reisinger from a museum "hopelessly Edwardian" in tone, full of plaster casts of German statuary, into a "remarkably unique collection of original Germanic art," John P. Coolidge '35, Director of the Fogg Museum, said yesterday...
...deftly the Greeks-and Romans and Etruscans-wrought this versatile metal from 1700 B.C. onward can be seen from a display of 316 classical bronzes, covering a period of 23 centuries, selected from 79 private and museum collections by David Gordon Mitten of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum (see color opposite). The first exhibition on such a scale ever to be circulated in the U.S., the classical bronzes will be shown at the City Art Museum of St. Louis in March, later at the Los Angeles County Museum...
...realistic portrait, and their skills are powerfully summarized in a fleshy, glowering face, described by Yale Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman as "by far the most important of the Roman bronzes, one of the most striking pieces in the show." Though the portrait has not been formally identified, the Fogg's Mitten says that "there is no question" but that it is the brutal but brilliant emperor Caracalla (A.D. 188-217) who murdered his brother (and co-emperor) in order to secure sole power, put to death some 20,000 of his brother's supporters, but also adorned Rome...
...happens, Pusey's relief at finding two new deans was short-lived. With the resignation last week of John Coolidge as director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, he must get back on the telephone, scan the country, solicit letters of recommendation for a man to head the country's best university museum...
Coolidge said yesterday that he has been particularly pleased by the Fogg's recent series of open exhibitions, and noted that the Museum continues to be a major training-ground for museum curators and directors. He added that the Fogg has strengthened its collections of prints and drawings and of Oriental art with important acquisitions and loans...