Word: wetzell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gift of $100,000 has been left to the University in the will of Hervey Edward Wetzel '11 of Detroit, Michigan. This is to be expended "for a few important works of art for the Fogg Museum," under the direction of three members of the Department of Fine Arts;--Edward W. Forbes '95, Dr. Denman W. Ross '75, and Arthur Pope...
Although modestly worded, this is probably the most important single gift that the Fogg Museum has ever received, for the bequest also include half of Mr. Wetzel's notable collection of the art of the near East and Orient. Another advantage is the fact that the principal of the gift may be expended as well as the interest...
...Hervey Wetzel died of pneumonia on October 17, 1918, at the Red Cross Hospital at Neuilly, France, where he had been serving as a Red Cross executive. Throughout his life he had devoted himself to the cause of art, being particularly distinguished for his Oriental collections. Just previous to the war he was for a while Curator of Persian and Mohammedan Art at the Boston Art Museum...
...first work of art purchased with the funds provided in memory of Hervey E. Wetzel '11 has been installed in the Fogg art Museum. The picture, which is an important Sienese painting by Simone Martin, formerly in the Bonnat Collection, in Paris, is now on exhibition in the main gallery of the Museum. During the summer, the Museum also acquired eight water color drawings by John Ruskin, at one time in the collection of Charles Eliot Norton '46. The policy of temporary loan exhibitions will be continued by the Museum directors, by securing masterpieces of distinction from private collectors throughout...
...Lucas, 196 (H); R. Crawford, 226 (L); W. G. Kleinsphen, 227 (L); W. K. Herrick, 234 (Me); H. E. Pratt, 235 (Me); J. E. Larson, 257 (Mich); J. F. Walker, 549 (Mich); P. W. Burkholder, 258 (Mich); B. D. Wheeler, 259 (Mich); D. K. Messner, 256 (Mich); C. C. Wetzel, 260, (Mich); G. Bowden, 282 (M. I. T.); O. A. Bardes, 282 (M. I. T.); H. R. Couch, 286 (M. I. T.); E. J. Coughlin, 287 (M. I. T.); W. B. Gurney 288 (M. I. T.); J. W. Poole, 270 (M. I. T.); E. M. Brockett...