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...Coolidge was named Associate Professorand Director of the Fogg Art Museum. During his20-year tenure as Director, he championed andstrengthened the holdings in the Fogg,particularly in contemporary art, and committedthe museum to expanded educational services. Hetrained dozens of students intending careers inthe museum profession. Under his supervisionstudents organized special exhibitions and soughtworks of art for acquisition. The works heobtained for the Fogg Art Museum during his tenurewere notable for their high aesthetic quality...
...Emeritus, described Coolidge as"completely dedicated to the arts at Harvard andthe Boston Museum of Fine Arts, perhaps atconsiderable cost to his work as a scholar. He wasalways extremely helpful and encouraging to me. Hewas a man of great breadth in his appreciation ofart, overseeing the growth of the Fogg'scollection in many areas...
...John led the Fogg Museum during a mostimportant period in its history," said James Cuno."At the terribly young age of 35 he succeeded thegreat co-directors, Edward Forbes and Paul J.Sachs, whose success had been enormous and whoseinfluence was still pervasive. His job was to movethe museum forward in the immediate andfinancially precarious post-war years, and he didso with characteristic good judgment and clarityof purpose...
...typical of John that he encouraged the youngscholar Michael Fried to mount a provocativeexhibition of recent American painting, ThreeAmerican Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski,Frank Stella (1965) and to publish what quicklybecame the signal statement on the new paintings'style and purpose. At the same time, he acquiredfor the Fogg our first paintings by thatgeneration, Morris Louis' Color Barrier and BlueVeil, and Kenneth Noland's Hover and Karma (giftof the artist...
Coolidge became a full professor in the FineArts Department in 1955. He resigned as Directorof the Fogg in 1968 and after a year's sabbaticalreturned to teach at Harvard in 1969-1970. Hecontinued to teach at Harvard until 1984.Professor Coolidge was a Trustee of the BostonMuseum of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1975, and heserved as President of the Museum from...