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Today, thanks to Seymour Knox, the gallery's major claim to fame is as a showcase of contemporary abstraction. By 1939 Knox was president, and that year Director Gordon Washburn, now director of fine arts at the Carnegie Institute, set aside one room for abstract art. For a while all purchases went through a committee, but Knox soon grew impatient with the wrangling. "I decided," says Knox in his no-nonsense way, "that I was providing most of the money, so I should have more to say about what we bought-with the help, of course, of the gallery...
Second to One. With Washburn and his successors-Andrew Ritchie, now head of the Yale Art Gallery, and the present director, Gordon Smith-Knox has had a relationship any museum man would envy...
According to Washburn, "the HSA has frankly admitted some mistakes and is acting to correct them. This is an example of the positive results of the recent protests...
...Washburn anticipates his committee will turn over "all its notes" to a new, longer range study group appointed by the new Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs next January...
...have enough time to go fully into the books of each agency, and this should definitely be done," Washburn noted. Also, he hopes a Council committee will closely observe the next appointment of new HSA managers, to ascertain "exactly what criteria" are used in selecting personnel...