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John P. Coolidge '35, Boardman professor of fine arts, emeritus and former director of the Fogg Art Museum, died on July 31, at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...great sympathy and compassion," John M. Rosenfield, Rockefeller professor of oriental art, emeritus and former acting director of the Fogg said in a statement. "He regularly used his authority as professor and museum official to help young scholars and promote new causes. Born into a family long distinguished for its service to Harvard University and, indeed, to the entire nation, John Coolidge had a profound, instinctive sense of social responsibility...
...losing John Coolidge we have been deprived of a good friend, a fine scholar, a generous teacher," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a statement. "When I first met him in the early 1960s, he was encouraging graduate students and junior faculty members to view the Fogg as a place to pursue their interest in [for example] Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Anthony Caro, and Kenneth Noland--as well as in the Mannerists, in 20th-century photographers, and in Dutch and Flemish print makers. This wise eclectic spirit nurtured the Museum, and infused the Department, in a way that allowed individuals...
...When he began at Harvard and at the Fogg, he found things in fine and fresh early bloom," Rudenstine aid. "By the time he left, he had brought them to full flower. We shall miss him: for himself, and also for the way that he allows us--through him--to reach backward in time, touching the very origins of our history in the serious study and collection of art, and in a serious effort to understand and respond imaginatively to art at Harvard...
Harvard planned to build a bridge across Broadway, connecting the Sackler and the Fogg, hence the presence of phallic green pillars outside Sackler. But Cambridge residents protested, saying the bridge would divide the city...