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...path to the office of Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) Director Thomas W. Lentz is paved with art-world gold. On the walls of his small study tucked away in the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum, the works of Georges Braque and Walter Sickert??the painter who some think led a double life as Jack the Ripper—represent just a small sample of Harvard’s massive holdings that students do not see.Lentz, who was named HUAM director in 2003, now manages the largest university art collection in the country. Harvard?...
Cornwell first became interested in this mystery in 2001 when she had a conversation with a Scotland Yard investigator in London about Jack the Ripper. As she researched Sickert??s work, she became more and more disturbed by his live subjects’ “dead” appearance and his other paintings of actual murder scenes...
...right place at the right time for these murders to have occurred,” and that he had a strange fascination with Jack the Ripper. At one point, he created a painting in which the murderer appeared in front of a backdrop of Sickert??s own bedroom...
...everyone is convinced. Sickert??s biographer, Matthew Sturgis, has called Cornwell’s thesis “pure fiction.” He has mustered evidence to show that Sickert was probably in France—far away from the crime scene—during the murder spree...
...works on paper by Sickert will be available by appointment at the Fogg’s Agnes Mongan Center, but that there are currently no plans to exhibit the works. However, one painting by Sickert??“Portrait of Thérèse Lessore”–is currently on display in the Fogg...