Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the country on a camping trip with his wife and three children, Slive was haunted by the picture: "I know it "sounds corny, but I honestly had visions of that painting in the campfires." Back in Cambridge, he had the oil sketch shipped to him for closer inspection. Fogg Art Museum colleagues, including Jakob Rosenberg, scrutinized it and agreed on its authenticity. Experts evaluated it as high as $400,000. To make finally certain, Slive strung the painting around his neck in a bag and flew off to Holland. "I felt just like James Bond," confesses Slive. The concurrence...
...interests range beyond the corridors of power. He is an expert in oriental artifacts, a specialist in the Tang Dynasty, and the author of a book on the subject. When he was at Harvard last week, he took an hour off from his busy schedule to examine the Fogg Oriental collection, and was asked his professional opinion on several hard to-identify pieces not yet on display...
Speculation last night centered around the Kennedy family. Jacqueline Kennedy is expected to visit an art exhibition at the Fogg on Tuesday. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 is in the Boston area. And Arthur M. Schlesinger '38--a friend of the family--is now in Cambridge...
Died. Paul Joseph Sachs, 86, longtime (1917-48) professor of fine arts at Harvard, who in his dual role as associate director of the university's Fogg Museum helped make it one of the country's finest museums (most notably for its collection of European drawings), as well as the No. 1 training ground for aspiring curators (his students have run, among many, Manhattan's Metropolitan, Boston's Fine Arts, Washington's National Gallery), teaching them above all else to upgrade the quality of their museums' art-even if it meant selling the trustees...
Brightness from Stone. For a paltry budget of $300 a year, Rosenberg has assembled an unsurpassed teaching collection of modern prints since his appointment as a Fogg curator in 1939. All of the works in the show? two-thirds of which were acquired over the years by Rosenberg? have increased tenfold in value. A Kirchner woodcut bought in 1945 for $90 is now worth $2,000. Klee's 1923 lithograph, Tight rope Walker, cost him $40, and now would command 15 times the price...