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...Dowling said yesterday that McCombe had worked around chemicals for years, including for a time in 1992 at the Fogg Art Museum. He said the department was investigating the doctor's note and whether McCombe, in fact, has trouble breathing. Fogg officials were unavailable for comment...
Kang said the KSA will be sponsoring a number of events in the coming semester, including a Korean cultural show at the Fogg Art Museum...
When Joanna Dreifus '94, a fine arts concentrator, approached Fogg director James Cuno last year about a summer job, Cuno suggested she might be interested in working on an exhibition about the society. "They were planning to have this exhibition, which was going to be small...enough to be manageable for me," Dreifus explains. "And also the subject matter of it--an undergraduate organization that exhibited modern art in the early 1930s--[he felt] it would be appropriate for an undergraduate to be working...
...Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943 provided much of the necessary background. "[The book] is about these Harvard undergraduates that...paved the way for a greater appreciation of modern art," Dreifus says. "Then from there, I looked in the archives of the Fogg. They had a lot of documentary materials from the society that were just tucked away in these folders that hadn't been opened in 60 years...
Once she finished researching the project, Dreifus had to decide what to display. "We were going to be exhibiting materials from the archives, but we also wanted to show the kinds of works [the society] exhibited at the time...So I went through the catalogs at the Fogg and picked out things for the exhibition and then did research on those works of art and the artists, so I could write the text for the labels on the walls...