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Funded by two Radcliffe grants totalling $1800, Finn examined a manuscript collection of documents from the 17th century in the London British Museum. She was also the first student to make use of some historical papers on medieval Ireland in the Jesuit Archives in Dublin, Ireland. In addition, she utilized Trinity College in Dublin and the National Library of Ireland, and viewed documentaries on the Irish television network RTE (Radio Television Eyre...
...Loehr not only substantially contributed to the substance of our knowledge, but he also methodologically revised the ways in which we do research," said Robert D. Mowry, who is associate curator of Oriental art at the Sackler Museum. "His contributions were not only to Harvard but to the entire field of Chinese art and archaeology...
Loehr was named to his chaired professorship at Harvard in 1960, a position he held until his retirement in 1974. At Harvard, he served as curator of Oriental art at the Fogg Art Museum in addition to teaching courses in Chinese jade, paintings and ceramics...
Before coming to Harvard, he held professorships and museum positions throughout the world, including professor of Far Eastern art and archaeology at the University of Michigan (1951-60), lecturer in Far Eastern art at the University of Munich (1950-51) and associate professor at Tsingua University, China...
...museum's curators are eager to convince you of the seriousness of their enterprise, and some of the text panels read like term papers. Ignore them; play hooky in your trash-collector's soul. Enter phone booth-shaped screening rooms to watch clips from All About Eve or Mary Tyler Moore's last episode with commentary from Directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Jay Sandrich. Model costumes of the stars, like Marilyn Monroe's dress from The Seven Year Itch, before a fun-house mirror. Lay your own sound effects over the dialogue of a TV commercial or movie clip. Browse...