[Report of the Fogg Art Museum, 1921-22]

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[Report of the Fogg Art Museum, 1921-22]Author(s): Edward W. Forbes and P. J. S.Source: Annual Report (Fogg Art Museum), No. 1921/1922 (1921 - 1922), pp. 1-7Published by: The President and Fellows of Harvard College on behalf of the Harvard Art MuseumStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4301209 .

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[From the Report of the President of Harvard University, 1921-22]

THE FOGG ART MUSEUM

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY: -

SIR, - I have the honor to present the following report on the Fogg Art Museum for the year 1921-22.

Unusually fine acquisitions have again been made - particu- larly in the fields of sculpture and painting. The additions to these departments are of the highest artistic and historical value, and add greatly to the dignity and importance of the Museum.

DEPARTMENT OF SCULPTURE

First in significance is a collection of seventeen French Roman- esque capitals of the twelfth century.

(a) Twelve of these capitals are from the Abbey Church of Moutier-Saint-Jean and were purchased with funds contributed by Friends of the Fogg Art Museum;

(b) Four of these capitals are from Saint-Pons-de-Thomieres, and were given to the Museum by Professor A. Kingsley Porter; and

(c) One of these capitals is from the Abbey of Grandbois (Vau- cluse), and was given to the Museum by Professor Paul J. Sachs, Class of 1900. By the acquisition of this fine collection of sculpture, now installed in the entrance hall, the Museum has come into possession of what is perhaps the most important collection of mediaeval sculpture in America.

Other significant acquisitions in the field of sculpture are two Cambodian heads of Buddha, lent indefinitely to the Museum, and a charming Greek head of a young girl - probably dating from about 300 B.C. - a gift to the Museum from Cavaliere L. Melano Rossi. From J. V. Demotte the Museum has received as gifts two pieces of French sculpture - one of the fourteenth century, a fragment of portal sculpture from the Church of Saint-Jacques, Paris, by Robert Delaunay; the other of the sixteenth century, from-Saint Michel, perhaps the work of Ligier Richier.

DEPARTMENT OF PAINTING

The collection of Italian paintings has been enriched by the purchase * of a beautiful Crucifixion by Fra Angelico, one of the few works in the United States by this great master.

* Hervey E. Wetzel Bequest.



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Other interesting acquisitions in the Department of Painting are: a Portrait of Count Rumford, by Gainsborough, the bequest of Edmund C. Converse; an oil painting of a Woman and two Children, by Mary Cassatt, the gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, Class of 1907; and a study for the head of Sant' Ilario in the dome of the Cathedral at Parma, by Correggio, the gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875.

A complete list of gifts and loans in all departments will be found at the end of this report.

DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS

The acquisitions of the Print Department cover a period of time from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, and illustrate the art of engraving in many of its phases. Notable among the prints are: a very early and rare engraving by Marcantonio - the Judgment of Paris; a collection of glass-prints by the Barbizon painters; proofs of three of the woodcuts from Holbein's Dance of Death; a very rare lithograph by Ingres; and interesting and important prints by Manet, Pissarro, and Daumier.

ORIENTAL DEPARTMENT

Dr. Ross has made valuable gifts to the Oriental Department -

including a Persian bowl of great beauty, dating from the sixteenth century; and Chinese, Persian, and Indian paintings. Dr. Ernest G. Stillman gave to the Museum three fine Persian bowls of the thirteenth century.

TEXTILES

The collection of textiles has been enlarged by valuable gifts from Dr. Ross, including Italian and Persian textiles of the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries; Spanish embroidery; Japanese embroidery and brocades; Chinese weavings and embroideries; and two fine brocades of the eighteenth century - French, Spanish or Italian.

EXHIBITIONS

The two most important Exhibitions held during the year were an Exhibition of Florentine Illustrated Books and an Exhibition of Works by Rembrandt - Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings.

The Florentine illustrated books were largely from the two valuable collections recently purchased by the Widener Library - the Savonarola Collection and the Sacre Rappresentazioni. Fine examples of the art of bookmaking of the Middle Ages were also



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lent by the Wellesley College Library; John Pierpont Morgan, Class of 1889; William M. Ivins, Jr., Class of 1901; and Dr. Edward Clark Streeter. Probably such a large collection of Florentine illustrated books has never before been placed on exhibition.

For the Rembrandt Exhibition paintings were lent by John Pierpont Morgan; Otto H. Kahn; Ernesto Fabbri; the Ehrich Galleries; the F. Kleinberger Galleries; M. Knoedler and Com- pany; Duveen Brothers; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. John Pierpont Morgan lent also his fine collection of original drawings and Felix M. Warburg lent a notable group of etchings. An etching was lent by Miss Gertrude Brooks. During the fourteen days of the Exhibition the attendance was 2,794.

Other Exhibitions held during the year were: Drawings of Eng- lish Cathedrals by Kenneth J. Conant, Class of 1915; Drawings and Paintings in watercolor by Professor Arthur Pope, Class of 1901; French Prints; Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Mas- ters; Plates of Turner's Liber Studiorum from the Francis Bullard Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; French Drawings and Prints.

BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND SLIDES

Two hundred and eighteen volumes have been added to the Library, by gift and by purchase. A collection of 84 fine repro- ductions of the Holbein portrait drawings at Windsor Castle was a gift to the Museum from Professor Paul J. Sachs. The routine work of the Department of Photographs and Slides has proceeded satisfactorily: 732 photographs and 2,714 slides have been catalogued for the first time and 588 slides recatalogued - making a total of 4,034 photographs and slides catalogued. Slides have been issued to instructors 371 times. The public-school lending set of Greek slides has been sent to 12 schools, the Roman slides to 17, and the English slides to 13 schools.

STAFF

The Assistant Director was absent in Europe from February to May and the Director left in August for a year's absence in Europe.

Miss Rosalind G. Parker became a regular member of the staff on March 1. Mrs. Chandler Gifford and Miss Anna Wheatland have volunteered their services for short periods of time. Mr. H. A. Hammond Smith has this year been made Technical Ad- viser to the Fogg Art Museum.



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PUBLICATIONS

For the first time the Museum has this year undertaken the publication of a bulletin or Notes; two numbers have been issued. For the present it is planned to publish these Notes about twice a year - articles will be contributed by the members of the Fine Arts Department and by the Museum staff. The purpose of the Notes is to make known to the University and to the community not only the new acquisitions of the Museum but also the works of art which have long been in the possession of the Museum but which have never been published.

STORY HOURS

Two story hours were held during the year. Notices of the stories were sent to the public and private schools of Cambridge and to the Children's Museum. The stories were told by Miss Gil- man and Miss McCormick of the Museum staff and were well at- tended. It is hoped that further developments in this field will be made during the coming year.

PUBLICITY

Two campaigns were undertaken during the year, one by the Directors of the Museum to enlarge the membership in the "Friends of the Fogg Art Museum," and the other, organized by the Visit- ing Committee to make known to Harvard men the work of the Division of Fine Arts and the place of the Museum in the Univer- sity - its resources, its opportunities, and its needs. These campaigns increased somewhat the mefnbership of the "Friends" and tended to make the work of the Museum more widely understood and appreciated.

GIFTS

Bequest of Edmund C. Converse: Portrait by Gainsborough (Count Rumford).

Owen Bryant, Class of 1904: Fourteen drawings by William Rowan. Eben F. Comins: Three watercolor copies of paintings.

Demotte: Two fragments of sculptured figures, fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Edward W. Forbes, Class of 1895: Drawing by William Rowan. Friends of the Fogg Art Museum: Twelve twelfth-century Romanesque

capitals; fourteenth-century Italian lunette. Albert Gallatin: Pompeian fresco. Dr. William Herman: Thirteenth-century Italo-Byzantine triptych

(Madonna and Child).



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Sefior Don Thomas A. LeBreton: Medallion. Mrs. John T. Linzee: Bowl made by Mrs. Linzee and given to the Mu-

seum in memory of Hervey E. Wetzel. Dr. George H. Monks, Class of 1875, and Mrs. Monks: Painting attrb-

uted to Charles LeBrun (Jephthah's Daughter). Professor A. Kingsley Porter: Four Romranesque capitals. Dr. Denman W. Ross: Four paintings attributed to Magnasco (Land-

scapes); three Chinese paintings (Portraits); painting of the School of Salvator Rosa (Landscape); painting attributed to Crespi (Vision of Monks); painting by Pantoja de la Cruz (?) (Portrait of Philip III); Chinese painting of the Sung period; Persian painting (In- terior of a School); Mughal painting (Portrait of a Man on a Horse); painting by Dr. Denman W. Ross (Portrait of George Santayana); painting by Correggio (Study for head of Sant' nario in dome of Cathedral, Parma); painting attributed to Bronzino (Portrait of a Man in Armor); painting attributed to Raphael Mengs (Portrait of Pietro Leopoldo); sixteenth-century Persian bowl; Spanish embroidery; Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Persian textiles; page of Persian manuscript.

L. Melano Rossi: Third-century Greek head; Peruvian glazed terracotta amulet; ivory statuette from Val della Locania; two pieces of SRvres porcelain.

Professor Paul J. Sachs: French Romanesque capital; drawing by Wil- liam Rowan.

Dr. Ernest G. StiUman: Painting by Mary Cassatt (Woman and Chil- dren); three thirteenth (?) century Persian bowls; Japanese book.

Dr. Edward C. Streeter: Drawing by Caravaggio. William Augustus White, Class of 1863: Drawing by Thackeray.

Prints were given by the following:

Stephan Bourgeois, Edward W. Forbes, David Keppel, Professor Paul J. Sachs, Mrs. Carl 0. Schuchmann in memory of her son, Herbert F. Schuchmann, Professor W. H. Woodward.

LoANs Miss Gertrude Brooks: Etching by Rembrandt (Peter and John at the

Gate of the Temple). Owen Bryant: Drawing of a skull, by William Rowan. Kenneth J. Conant: Twenty-two pencil drawings by himself (English

Cathedrals). Walter W. S. Cook, Class of 1911: Sixteenth-century Spanish-sculpture

(Head); triptych; five sculptured statuettes; plaque; Corean mir- ror.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Twelve Indian paintings; eighteenth-century Indian drawing.

Duveen Brothers: Painting by Rembrandt (Portrait of Rembrandt's Brother).

Ehrich Brothers: Painting by Rembrandt.



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Ernesto Fabbri: Painting by Rembrandt (Portrait of an Ofd Man). Mrs. Cornelius Conway Felton: Watercolor drawing by Paul Delaroche.

(Ladies at the Theatre). Edward W. Forbes: Watercolors by Winslow Homer; watercolor by-

Turner (Wave); watercolor by Turner (Simplon Pass); watercolor by Ruskin; watercolor by Sargent; watercolor by La Farge; painting by Ghirlandaio (Kneeling Virgin); ruined fragment by Loren- zetti; three Persian paintings; three pieces of Egyptian sculpture; Chinese painting (Falcon); four drawings; Holbein's Dance of Death; two Japanese prints; ruined early Italian Crucifixion; three Persian vases; Etruscan vase; Italian vase; three mortars; choir- leaf; illuminated manuscript; Arabic writing; four pieces of bro- cade and damask.

Miss Charlotte Hallowell: Choir-book. Judge Franklin T. Hammond, Class of 1892: Painting by Tarbell (Justice

John W. Hammond). Harvard College Library: Thirty-nine Savonarola tracts; thirty-nine

volumes of Sacre Rappresentazioni. William M. Ivins, Jr.: Two Florentine illustrated books. Otto H. Kahn: Painting by Rembrandt (Philemon and Baucis). The F. Kleinberger Galleries: Painting by Rembrandt (Head of a Man). M. Knoedler and Company: Painting by Rembrandt (Young girl stand-

ing in an Interior). Damodar Kosambi: Twenty-six Indian silver coins. Dr. Joseph Martini: Three Florentine illustrated books. John Pierpont Morgan: Painting by Rembrandt (Portrait of Himself);

twenty-seven drawings by Rembrandt; thirty-two Florentine illustrated books.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Two paintings by Rembrandt (Danae; and Study of an Old Man); fourteen pieces of Chinese porcelain; seventy prints from Turner's Llber Studiorum; six Indian paintings.

Mrs. Richard Norton: Painting of the Venetian School (Portrait of a Man).

Dr. Denman W. Ross: Indian painting of the Kangra School; drawing by Tiepolo; eighteenth-century lacquer tray with design by Korin.

Professor Paul J. Sachs: Eighty-four drawings; Flemiish painting (Ma- donna and Child); two Japanese screens; four Persian bowls; French Henri II chair; two Cambodian heads.

Samuel Sachs: Painting by Tintoretto (Diana); painting of the Venetian School (Head of a Man).

Dr. Edward C. Streeter: Three Florentine illustrated books. Miss Leila Usher: Bronze bas-relief portrait (Charles Eliot Norton). William Van Dyke: Seventeenth-century painting (Landscape). Felix M. Warburg: Forty etchings by Rembrandt. Wellesley College: Nine Italian illustrated books.



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'Books, bulletins, pamphlets, photographs and other reproduc- tions, and slides have been received as gifts from

The Bachstitz-Gallery, The Hague, Holland

Frank E. Bliss Dr. W. von Bode Boston Public Library Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Yves H. Buhler Professor George H. Chase, Class of

1896 Art Institute of Chicago Professor Alfred V. Churchill, Smith

College Cleveland Museum of Art J. V. Demotte Detroit Institute of Arts Professor G. H. Edgeli, Class of 1909 Arthur Davison Ficke, Class of 1904 Miss Louise Fitz Edward W. Forbes Foster Brothers French Embassy, Washington Albert Gallatin Mrs. John L. Gardner Miss Margaret E. Gilman Victor Goloubew Frederick W. Gookin Dr. Georg Gronau Harvard College Library Hillyer Art Gallerv, Smith College

John Herron Art Institute Mitchell Kennerley Bertram Kimball Little, Class of 1923 Miss Amy Loveman David M. Matteson Metropolitan Museum of Art Minneapolis Institute of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston C. M. S. Niver Miss Elizabeth Norton Miss Grace Norton Miss Sara Norton Leonard Opdycke, Class of 1917 A. E. Merriman Paff A. J. Panini Pennsylvania Museum Charles D. Porter, Class of 1886 Professor Chandler R. Post, Class of

1904 Rhode Island School of Design Mrs. Thomas 0. Richardson Dr. Denman W. Ross Professor Paul J. Sachs St. Louis City Art Museum William D. Sohier Toledo Museum of Art United States National Museum V. Thorlacius Ubsing Worcester Art Museum

NEEDS

(a) New Building. (b) Endowment.

EDWARD W. FORBES, Director. BY P. J. S.



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