Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fogg Art Museum has received a $4 million bequest which will almost double its endowment. The museum's previous endowment fund...
...gift, the largest in the museum's history, came from the estate of Archibald Alexander Hutchinson'14. When Hutchinson died in 1949, he willed a collection of 17th-and 18th-century silver to the Fogg and allocated $500,000 for a new wing...
...left the remainder of his estate in three life trusts for relatives and friends with the stipulation that the money be given to the Fogg upon the deaths of the beneficiaries. The museum received the $500,000 allocation in 1953; the present gift is the remainder of the life trusts...
...money will be used for acquisitions as well as restoration and improvement of the building and collections. Peter A. wick, assistant director of the Fogg, said yesterday. He noted the possibility that part of the fund might b used to establish professorships or to increase course offerings...
...silver collection acquired in 1950 contains 357 pieces representing the works of about 100 British and American artists from the period of James I to George III (1603-1820). John P. Coolidge, director of the Fogg, has noted that this is "the era of greatest distinction in the art of British silversmiths...