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With the University in the throes of its $250 million fund drive, many believe Bok will bestow an honorary on one of the University's major donors; speculation has centered on Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, who donated $5 million toward the construction of the new wing of the Fogg Museum or a member of the Bright family...
...Arts concentrators, Welch took a liking to American Indian painting. As a graduate student, he studied classical art. Over the years, he developed a taste for exoticae. Today, about thirty years later, the University officially recognizes Welch as the "Curator of Muslim and Hindu Painting in the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, the Honorary Curator of Indian and Islamic Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library, and a Senior Lecturer on Fine Arts...
...would be too easy to call Stuart Cary Welch an eccentric. In his office on the very top floor of the Fogg art museum, secluded among his collection of documents about Persian, Indian and Mughal painting, Welch thinks and writes about things that most people don't think and write about. He carries a battered Vuiton briefcase and wears J. Press shirts spackled with paint, spotted with holes, striped with tradition. He has a tendency, as one of his friends says, to "show up in sweaters that have been worn day in and day out." He is independently wealthy; there...
...Welch is also one of three or four people in the world who know anything about Persian paintings of the 16th century. About four years ago, he decided that it would be nice to bring together the works of that little known period. From his desk in the Fogg, Welch composed a letter to the director of the British Library reference division, the caretaker of one of the two great works of the early Safavid period, asking for his cooperation. "I thought they would scream with pain and say 'What do you mean?' " Welch says...
...together since--surprise--the 16th century. Five years later, that exhibition has already made its way through the British Library in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Dubbed "Wonders of the Age" (from a manuscript of the period), the collection now occupies Gallery XII of the Fogg Art Museum...