Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Greek sculpture and Italian paintings to come to the museum were lent in 1899. The Oriental collections began with the loan by Walter, M. Cabot in 1908 of a small collection of Japanese works...
...lower floor and the gallery were remodeled to increase exhibition space and provide better lighting and Edward W. Forbes '95 was made Director of the museum. He found it with only the beginnings of collections of anything except prints and with space which was even then inadequate. Three years later Paul J. Saches '01 was made Associate Director and it is to the scholarship and enthusiasm of these two men that the present state of the museum is chiefly due. Each has contributed generously from his own collections to the enrichment of the museum and their examples and earnestness have...
Thus, from an almost unmentionable beginning the collections have grown until, in certain fields, they are to be ranked among the most important in America. With an income for the purchase of works of art which has never been greater than $3,000.00 a year the museum has acquired, in addition to loans from private sources, collections whose value is estimated to be in excess of $3,000,000.00. A new building has been erected at a cost of about $1,000,000.00 and an endowment fund of equal amount has been raised. It is not seeking to become...
With the vast field of art before them it has been the purpose of the directors to avoid repetition and, when fine examples of a period were available in either of the other public collections in Boston the Fogg Museum has wisely counted these as part of its teaching equipment and made its greatest effort to bring to Cambridge the work of men whose paintings could not be studied to advantage elsewhere. This principle has been extended to include the various periods in the work of great master
...motion picture library and archive will be established immediately in Harvard by the Department of Fine Arts, the Fogg Art Museum, and Widener Library, it was announced yesterday...