Word: fogg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite its informality, Sachs's course was no pipe. "One of our first assignments was to memorize all the objects in a room at the Fogg," remembers Curator Lieberman. "And of course we did it." Sachs liked to teach more by anecdotes than academics. "He talked about all his purchases," remembers Curator Rousseau, "and gave us a sense of the tactics you have to learn. A museum person has to be fast on his feet-a scholar, a collector, a dealer and a showman all mixed with diplomacy. Sachs was all these things...
...blueprints for the meanderings of the human mind, Sachs's collection was something not even to be possessed. He gave his private collection to the Fogg for study purposes. Labels never bore his name as lender or donor; the only identification they wore was that they were from "A Friend of the Fogg." Sachs, upon his death in 1965 at the age of 86, had given 2,690 works to the museum, a bequest by an individual to a teaching collection unequaled in its taste and scope...
...group of art scholars at the Fogg Museum have joined others in forming the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA). The committee has already sent American restorers to Italy and also wants to help meet the costs of restoration. It is soliciting contributions now and hopes to receive enough to save a significant number of paintings, documents and sculptures from being completely lost.Interior of the National Library in Florence after the flood...
James Ackerman, Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, is chairman of the Boston local committee. Donations are desperately needed; they are tax deductible and should be sent to the C.R.I.A in care of Fogg Museum. The restoration of the works is urgent. Much of what is salvageable needs immediate care; oily accretions must be removed before the soaked works dry and are irreparably damaged. Contributions should be sent without delay...
Prince Souvanna Phouma, premier of Laos, will be an official guest of Harvard today. His tentative schedule calls for a tour of the University at noon; lunch at the home of John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; a visit to Widener Library and the Fogg Museum; a talk with George P. Baker, dean of the Business School; and dinner at Quincy House, with a speech there afterwards...