Harvard University Art Museums [Archives; Mongan Center; Busch-Reisinger Museum]
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| Fogg Art Museum Archives |
| Art Museum Archives |
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| Phone Numbers: |
| Fax | (617) 495-9936 |
| (617) 384-7983 |
| (617) 495-2384 |
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| Address: | Harvard University Art Museums Archives
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| Access Policy: |
| Open by appointment. |
| Open to all, photo I.D. required. |
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| Extent of Collections: | c. 2,000 linear ft. |
| Dates: | 1895 to present |
| Holdings Description: | Archives: Official records of the Harvard University Art Museums. Includes the correspondence of former directors, curators and other staff members, notably Edward W. Forbes, Paul Sachs, Agnes Mongan,and Margaret Gilman. 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 and many student papers. Published materials include Fogg annual reports and exhibition catalogs and curatorial publications relating to HUAM collections.
Busch-Reisinger Museum: 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 has 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 Art Museum'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 the invention of the medium in 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.
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| History: | The Fogg Museum was opened in 1895 in Harvard Yard; it has stood in its present location on Quincy Street since 1927. The Harvard University Art Museums are comprised of the Fogg, the Sackler Museum and the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Archival materials are held by the Busch-Reisinger Museum and by the Fogg’s departments of Drawings and Photographs.
The first “archival” function undertaken at the Fogg Museum was in 1953, when volunteer and Friend of the Fogg H. Wade White offered to work on the Fogg’s historical records. He was succeeded by Phoebe Peebles and Abigail Smith. Susan von Salis was hired as the Archives’ first curator in January 2003. The HUAM Archives are located in the Fogg Museum.
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| Printed Guides & Catalogs: | NHPRC |
| Online Guides & Catalogs: | Some records are cataloged in HOLLIS.
Some records are cataloged in OASIS (Online Archival Search Information System: oasis.harvard.edu. |
| Contact for permission to publish requests: | Curator of Archives |
| Reproduction services: |
| Photocopying by staff only. |
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Please address comments and updates to archinfo@hulmail.harvard.edu.
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