| Holdings Description: | Archives: Official records of the Harvard Art Museums. Includes the correspondence of former directors, curators and other staff members, notably Edward W. Forbes, Paul Sachs, Agnes Mongan, Charles H. Moore and John Coolidge. Also material on the history of the Fogg, records of past exhibitions, building plans, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia. Collections of personal papers include: Agnes Mongan, David Smith, Chaim Soutine, Denman W. Ross, Grenville L. Winthrop, Alfonso Ossorio and many student papers, and the records of the Howard Wise Gallery. Published materials include Fogg annual reports and exhibition catalogs and curatorial publications relating to Museum collections.
Busch-Reisinger: Bauhaus materials; visual materials by /from Walter Gropius and of Lyonel Feininger; papers of Alexander Dorner. The Bauhaus materials include student notes and exercises, textile and wallpaper samples, photographs, books, and Bauhaus publications from 1919-33; also student exercises from other art schools founded on the Bauhaus model. The Walter Gropius Archive contains architectural drawings, blueprints, and photographs of German and American projects, 1910-56. The Lyonel Feininger Archive includes 5,000 cataloged items: sketches, some correspondence, unfinished oil paintings, and photographs. The Alexander Dorner Papers consist of 18 boxes of correspondence, book and article typescripts, as well as newspaper and magazine clippings on a wide variety of cultural, social, and scientific topics.
Department of Photographs: Founded in 1972, the Fogg’s photograph collection is comprised of an anthology collection representing the history of fine art photography as well as the aesthetic use of photography largely in the United States and Western Europe from 1839 to the present, with special emphasis on modern and contemporary photography. It also holds six research collections that focus on American documentary, social reform, vernacular, and professional photography: Ben Shahn; Cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards; Tintypes; American Professional Photographers Collection; Social Museum Collection; and the Boston Elevated Railway Collection.
Harvard Portrait Collection: The Portrait Collection consists primarily of portraits of people associated with Harvard University: presidents, deans, administrators, faculty, benefactors and illustrious alumni. From this small group the collection has grown, through gifts as well as commissions, to include more than 2,000 paintings and sculptures. The collection has particular strengths in American colonial painting, and nineteenth century American sculpture. Documentation for the University's portrait collection: curatorial files for over 2,000 paintings, sculpture and drawings; accession books. Files includes photographs, acquisition information, notes and references from Corporation records related to specific portraits, original correspondence (primarily concerning commissions or gifts; letters from artists, donors), bibliography, exhibition history and conservation history. |
