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...Seymour Slive, director of the Fogg, said yesterday that he is still hopeful that the paintings will be recovered...
Cutting a multi-layered cake in the center of the courtyard at midnight, a beaming Seymour Slive, director of the Fogg, announced: "The Fogg has no middle-age crisis!" Slive, the staff, and the Friends of the Fogg have been working hard to give the museum a more-than-human life...
...Gainsborough, with Copley's 1788 portrait of two colonels, hung directly below, reveals the English master's direct influence on American painting. The contrast between the gentlemanly rendering of the English officer and the frank force of the American portrait highlights the differing achievements of the two artists. Seymour Slive and Sydney Freedberg have done an expert job in selecting and hanging the paintings in a progression which allows each work to contribute to the understanding of those around it; John Audubon's family of turkeys reflects the French artist Oudry's earlier Blue Herons, literally and figuratively...
...director of the Fogg, to arrange the entire space in a medieval mode, mounting Romanesque capitals on low semi-detached pedestals projecting from the wall. The Fogg's fourteenth century Italian paintings were arranged in the areas between columns and framed by medieval chests set below. Undaunted by tradition, Slive and Freedberg replaced the small medieval works with larger seventeenth century canvases--a group which is better fitted to the room and more representative of the Fogg's strengths. (The early Renaissance works, among them gilded gems such as Fra Angelico's Crucifixion, are now contained in a small grey...
...last three years the museum, under the directorship of Seymour Slive, has moved into an ever-closer association with the teaching process. A permanent gallery operates in cooperation with Fine Arts 13, "Introduction to the History of Art," changing its exhibits weekly to coincide with the course's various themes. Curators of the museum like John Rosenfield and Konrad Oberhuber teach Harvard courses, and the museum hosts a myriad of seminars, employing the extensive reserves of material in its collections. The Fogg's use as an instructional facility is "on a par with Fitzwilliam at Cambridge (England), the Ashmolean...