Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over picture of the Fogg Art Museum's stake in the wartime preservation of art must include a full consideration of its ranking position among art museums of the nation. A good portion of the responsibility for guiding the preparations of other art institutions has fallen to The Fogg. In March representatives of 15 museums and galleries throughout the country were welcomed here by Director Forbes to study the protection of works of art in wartime. Discussion ranged from how to safeguard against diseases affecting paper and linen in a new location, and the shattering of glass after bombing...
...museum the size of The Fogg, its influence on American collecting, exhibiting, and research has been tremendous. This effect, highlighted by the world crisis, has been the result of two factors: the men The Fogg has produced and the men that have produced The Fogg. Through it courses, facilities, and above all its connection with the Harvard student body, The Fogg has been able to develop a host of professional and amateur experts who have been playing a vital role in art in America for the last quarter of a century...
Almost 200 museum posts are now held by men who have studied at Fogg with Professor Forbes, or who have taken Professor Sachs' famous museum course as graduate students. This number includes the directors of 29 museums, such as the New York Museum of Modern Art, and others in cities like Chicago, Cincinnatti, Buffalo, and San Francisco. The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is also a Harvard alumnus...
...Robert Woods Bliss, former ambassador to Argentina; David E. Finley, director of the National Gallery; Everett V. Meeks, chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Yale; and Charles R. Morey, chairman of the same department at Princeton. The main duty of this group, besides keeping an eye on the museum, is to attend an annual banquet usually given in Warburg Hall at Fogg but this spring held at Winthrop Aldrich's home in New York...
...intricate and highly specialized plant run. Keystones in the entire hierarchy are Director Edward W. Forbes and Associate Director Sachs. Forbes, a grandson of Emerson from whom he takes his middle name, Waldo, has headed the Fogg staff since 1909, when the galleries were housed in the Old Museum now known as Hunt Hall. In 1915 Sachs joined him and the two opened an era of expansion in plant, collections, and funds...