Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Museum Trips" from a forthcoming book by Carl Nagin is a short, funny story about a visit to the Fogg. In the Modern Art Room Rocko and the Narrator meet an employee who "wouldn't givya a nickel" for the $70,000 Brancusi wood sculpture Caryatid, which he calls Mrs. Murphy's Bedpost. He calls a Jackson Pollack "that horror over there" and says it was hung on its side last month, but he likes Olitski's Ariosto's Kiss because the "painting seems to move." They visit the Persian Rug Room twice, but the rugs are on the wall...
...Widener reading room, and organized social functions. Chocolates are upstairs in their rooms, in Mallinckrodt, in Hilles Library, in the University Restaurant, or eating early dinner. Limes are also in Widener (although more likely in the stacks than the reading room), in cafeterias and coffee shops, in the Fogg, and in people's apartments...
Since she joined the staff of the Fogg in 1929, Miss Mongan, 64, has held the positions of Curator of Drawings, assistant director, and associate director...
...field of authority is the master drawings of Italy and France. She has edited and written many catalogues of special exhibitions of drawings and many articles on drawings for French, English, Italian, and American publications. The Fogg's collection of prints and drawings is particularly distinguished...
During her years with the Fogg, Miss Mongan has been active with other college museums. She has served on the advisory council of the Colby College Museum of Art and on the visiting committees of the Smith College art Museum and the textile department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Formerly, she was hairman of the visiting committee of the Wheaton College Art Department...