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...though he is a specialist in 16th and 17th century Dutch painting, "the breadth of Slive's sympathies is astounding," says associate professor Michael Fried, a specialist in modern art. "I can't imagine Slive won't do a tremendous job," Fried says...
...Slive agrees. "It's a private affair this encounter between the individual and the work of art," he says, and it is an affair that is being threatened. The Photography department has to share exhibition, storage and study space with the Prints department, which has resulted in over-crowded facilities for both. And though the Indian-Islamic collection "just moved out of the broom closet in January," according to Cary Welch, lecturer in Fine Arts, it will take three years for most of its important holdings to get out on display...
...except for expanding the Fogg, Slive doesn't see any radical changes in its future. Any change that does occur, moreover, will be made in conjunction with the department of Fine Arts. For Rosenfield, "our priorities aren't in getting things but in using what we have." As he sees it, the Fogg is a great museum and would still be so even if it never acquired another work of art. But the Fogg staff, whose job is, after all, to strengthen their muscum, might tend to see their roles in a more acquisitive light...
...Rosenfield says. "We try to diminish distinctions between the museum and the faculty." He himself is curator of Oriental Art, G.M.A. Hanfmann, John E. Hudson Professor of Archacology, is curator of Ancient Art, and Slive is Gleason Professor of Fine Arts. It's not suprising that the Fogg's director "can't see where there's a conflict between the museum and the department...
...Slive doesn't really have to worry about the strength of the Fogg's collection: it is generally acknowledged to be one of the strongest university museums in the country, and in many fields--Chinese jades, early Renaissance Italian painting, 19th century French painting, and prints, for example--its holdings are among the strongest anywhere in the world. The Fogg's "friends," who have donated over 90 per cent of the museum's works, make the collection seem to grow by itself, according to Rosenfield. In the Fogg's one weak area, that of modern art, Slive plans to strengthen...