Overview
These papers of Fogg Museum director Edward Waldo Forbes document his administration of the museum and a wide range of personal and professional activities and interests. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1944. The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including a series of correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, reports, expedition field notes and journals, printed material, newspaper clippings, blueprints, meeting minutes, letters of recommendation, insurance records, invoices, page proofs, telegrams, rubbings, sketches, visiting cards, shipping documents and press releases.
Dates
- Creation: 1867-2005
Creator
Conditions on Access:
Access: Unrestricted.
Copyright: The President and Fellows of Harvard College hold any copyright in Forbes' papers. Copyright in some papers in the collection may be held by their authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the Harvard Art Museum Archives before publishing quotations from any material in the collection.
Conditions on Use:
Copying: Papers may be copied in accordance with the Harvard Art Museums Archives usual procedures.
Extent
51 linear feet (119 file boxes, oversize materials)The papers in this collection document Edward Waldo Forbes' career as director of the Fogg Museum, his research interests in the technical study of works of art, his national and international travels, his role as a mentor to students and colleagues, his involvement on boards and committees, and various other personal and professional endeavors and interests. The papers date from 1867 to 2005, with the bulk spanning the years 1909-1944, and consist primarily of correspondence. They include Forbes' so-called "dealer files," in which he maintained letters to and from art dealers separately from other correspondence. The papers include memos, clippings and other published materials, telegrams and radiograms, meeting minutes, reports, expedition logs, photographs, blueprints and architectural drawings, field notes, letters of introduction, lists, page proofs, insurance records, bills of lading, maps, work orders, invoices, posters, press releases, visiting cards, and a few sketches and rubbings.
The folders have been re-housed into archival folders and boxes. Folders and their contents have been kept in their original order, and overstuffed folders have been divided among several folders for the sake of preservation and numbered to indicate that they represent a part of a larger whole (for example: "folder 1 of 2"). The original folder titles have been retained; any added information has been enclosed in square brackets by the processing archivist. The folders are filed alphabetically by title, and in most instances the papers within each folder are filed in reverse chronological order. Occasionally the papers are filed alphabetically instead of chronologically.
It is unknown if the papers' organization was created by Forbes and his staff or imposed by subsequent museum employees. Some folders contained notes of unknown origin and documents clearly added after Forbes' death, including archivists' memoranda. These added materials have been removed from the papers and maintained in separate files in the archives; they may be consulted upon request. The dates of these materials has been preserved in the folder titles, as a cue to researchers that added materials from a given folder can be found in a separate location. Researchers should also note that folder titles are not always entirely accurate or reflective of content. In cases where the folder title and content differ significantly, a note has been added at the folder level of the finding aid.
Acidic documents have been isolated with archival paper and in some cases enclosed in mylar. Fragile materials have been enclosed in mylar. Oversize materials have been filed in oversize storage; separation sheets indicate their removal. These oversize materials may be consulted upon request, and their location is indicated in the detailed container list that follows. Some of the collection suffered water damage in a flood of the archives in 1998; as a result, many of the papers are wrinkled, some ink has run, and some are stuck together and in need of treatment by conservators.
Biography:
Edward Waldo Forbes was born July 16, 1873 on Naushon Island, southwest of Cape Cod. He was the son of William Hathaway Forbes, founder and first president of the American Bell Telephone Company, and Edith Emerson Forbes, daughter of poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Forbes studied at Milton Academy before entering Harvard University, where he received an A.B. in 1895. During his studies at Harvard, Forbes' interest in the fine arts was encouraged by Professor Charles Eliot Norton. In 1898, Forbes traveled to Europe and began an earnest study of art and art history, with a focus on Italian primitive paintings. During these travels he also began to acquire early Italian paintings. Forbes studied English Literature at Oxford University from 1900 to 1902.
Upon his return to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1902, Forbes formed the Harvard Riverside Associates, a group that purchased land between Harvard Yard and the Charles River which would later become part of Harvard's campus. Forbes continued to cultivate his interest in art and became a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1903 and of the Fogg Museum in 1904. He also taught at the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts for one term in 1904, but was obliged to leave the position due to poor health. In 1907, he married Margaret Laighton, an accomplished gardener and watercolorist. They were married until her death in 1966 and raised five children at Gerry's Landing, the Forbes' Cambridge home.
In 1907 Forbes taught his first course, on Florentine painting, at Harvard. He became Lecturer in Fine Arts in 1909, the year he became director of the Fogg Museum. Forbes continued to teach throughout his years as director and was named Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer in Fine Arts in 1935. He was most well-known for his "Egg and Plaster" course, entitled Methods and Processes of Italian Painting, in which students learned about artists' materials and techniques by painting frescoes and using egg yolks to bind tempera to panels.
Forbes assumed the directorship of the Fogg Museum in 1909, after its first director, Charles Herbert Moore, retired. At that time, the museum's annual income was minimal, its collections limited, and its architectural spaces not conducive to display and study. Forbes described the collections as being installed, "in galleries where you could not see, adjacent to a lecture hall in which you could not hear." He immediately began efforts to improve the physical spaces of the museum, to garner financial support for its operation and endowment, and to build and strengthen its collections. Forbes was tremendously successful in these endeavors; by the time he retired from the directorship in 1944 the Fogg collection had become extensive and world-renowned, the museum was in a new building (opened in 1927) vastly more suited to its purposes, and the museum's financial situation was decidedly more stable.
Forbes' accomplishments at the Fogg were inextricably connected to those of Paul J. Sachs, whom Forbes persuaded to join the Fogg Museum as assistant director in 1915. Under Forbes and Sachs' direction for almost thirty years, the Fogg Museum built a distinguished teaching collection, sponsored a range of archaeological expeditions, and trained curators and directors for many American museums. Both men retired in 1944.
The technical study of works of art was one of Forbes' most passionate interests. He founded the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies (now named the Straus Center for Conservation) at the Fogg in 1928; it was the first fine arts conservation treatment, research, and training facility in the United States. Forbes pioneered the use of x-rays to analyze the technique and authenticity of paintings, to detect repainting, and to further study of attributions. He was also instrumental in the publication and success of Technical Studies in the Field of the Fine Arts, which was published from 1932 to 1942. In recognition of his accomplishments, Forbes was named the first honorary fellow of the Institute of Conservation on his 85th birthday, in 1958. At that time the Institute (now formally called the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) also established an Edward Waldo Forbes prize in his honor.
Forbes received many awards and distinctions throughout his career and was also active on various boards and committees. He received two honorary degrees from Harvard: an A.M. in 1921 and a Doctor of Arts in 1942. He was also honored with an LL.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1927. Forbes served in the American Red Cross in Italy during the first World War, and he was named Chevalier by the French Legion of Honor in 1937. He was a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for sixty-three years (beginning in 1903) and also a trustee of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut. Forbes was also on the administrative committee of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and Research Library of Byzantine Studies in Washington, D.C. from 1941 to 1963. In addition, he was a trustee of the Public Reservations of Massachusetts for more than sixty years and a founding member and president of the American Research Center in Egypt from 1948 to 1962.
Throughout his life, Forbes was an avid outdoorsman; he loved to sail, hike, ride and swim, and he was active in the yearly sheeping on Forbes family properties at Nashawena and Naushon Islands in Massachusetts. He was an enthusiastic painter, teased for lugging excessive equipment on even the smallest painting outing, and also loved music and singing. Forbes' kindness, hospitality, and generosity were legendary.
Edward Forbes died in Belmont, Massachusetts on March 11, 1969.
Arrangement
The papers are arranged in two series:
- Series I: General Correspondence
- Series II: Dealer Files
Series I, General Correspondence (#1-2350), contains correspondence with a wide range of individuals and is arranged alphabetically by folder title. Series II, Dealer Files (#2351-2574), consists of correspondence with art dealers, filed alphabetically by name, as well as photographs of works of art, grouped by geographical location, school or medium.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were left at the Fogg Museum by former director Edward Waldo Forbes.
Box and Folder Locations
- Box 1: Folders 1-24
- Box 2: Folders 25-50
- Box 3: Folders 51-77
- Box 4: Folders 78-105
- Box 5: Folders 106-124
- Box 6: Folders 125-145
- Box 7: Folders 146-171
- Box 8: Folders 172-194
- Box 9: Folders 195-221
- Box10: Folders 222-244
- Box 11: Folders 245-275
- Box 12: Folders 276-300
- Box 13: Folders 301-322
- Box 14: Folders 323-345
- Box 15: Folders 346-367
- Box 16: Folders 368-389
- Box 17: Folders 390-413
- Box 18: Folders 414-435
- Box 19: Folders 436-464
- Box 20: Folders 465-492
- Box 21: Folders 493-522
- Box 22: Folders 523-544
- Box 23: Folders 545-567
- Box 24: Folders 568-590
- Box 25: Folders 591-618
- Box 26: Folders 619-650
- Box 27: Folders 651-677
- Box 28: Folders 678-701
- Box 29: Folders 702-726
- Box 30: Folders 727-745
- Box 31: Folders 746-771
- Box 32: Folders 772-799
- Box 33: Folders 800-823
- Box 34: Folders 824-849
- Box 35: Folders 850-873
- Box 36: Folders 874-896
- Box 37: Folders 897-917
- Box 38: Folders 918-938
- Box 39: Folders 939-962
- Box 40: Folders 963-987
- Box 41: Folders 988-1012
- Box 42: Folders 1013-1043
- Box 43: Folders 1044-1068
- Box 44: Folders 1069-1090
- Box 45: Folders 1091-1106
- Box 46: Folders 1107-1131
- Box 47: Folders 1132-1155
- Box 48: Folders 1156-1176
- Box 49: Folders 1177-1201
- Box 50: Folders 1202-1219
- Box 51: Folders 1220-1241
- Box 52: Folders 1242-1259
- Box 53: Folders 1260-1273
- Box 54: Folders 1274-1294
- Box 55: Folders 1295-1312
- Box 56: Folders 1313-1328
- Box 57: Folders 1329-1345
- Box 58: Folders 1346-1362
- Box 59: Folders 1363-1379
- Box 60: Folders 1380-1402
- Box 61: Folders 1403-1428
- Box 62: Folders 1429-1447
- Box 63: Folders 1448-1469
- Box 64: Folders 1470-1489
- Box 65: Folders 1490-1511
- Box 66: Folders 1512-1531
- Box 67: Folders 1532-1558
- Box 68: Folders 1559-1582
- Box 69: Folders 1583-1605
- Box 70: Folders 1606-1627
- Box 71: Folders 1628-1651
- Box 72: Folders 1652-1678
- Box 73: Folders 1679-1701
- Box 74: Folders 1702-1716
- Box 75: Folders 1717-1735
- Box 76: Folders 1736-1755
- Box 77: Folders 1756-1774
- Box 78: Folders 1775-1797
- Box 79: Folders 1798-1816
- Box 80: Folders 1817-1833
- Box 81: Folders 1834-1850
- Box 82: Folders 1851-1868
- Box 83: Folders 1869-1891
- Box 84: Folders 1892-1914
- Box 85: Folders 1915-1937
- Box 86: Folders 1938-1955
- Box 87: Folders 1956-1975
- Box 88: Folders 1976-1996
- Box 89: Folders 1997-2014
- Box 90: Folders 2015-2034
- Box 91: Folders 2035-2048
- Box 92: Folders 2049-2065
- Box 93: Folders 2066-2084
- Box 94: Folders 2085-2101
- Box 95: Folders 2102-2119
- Box 96: Folders 2120-2138
- Box 97: Folders 2139-2157
- Box 98: Folders 2158-2176
- Box 99: Folders 2177-2194
- Box 100: Folders 2195-2215
- Box 101: Folders 2216-2239
- Box 102: Folders 2240-2257
- Box 103: Folders 2258-2270
- Box 104: Folders 2271-2282
- Box 105: Folders 2283-2295
- Box 106: Folders 2296-2316
- Box 107: Folders 2317-2333
- Box 108: Folders 2334-2350
- Box 109: Folders 2351-2368
- Box 110: Folders 2369-2386
- Box 111: Folders 2387-2413
- Box 112: Folders 2414-2438
- Box 113: Folders 2439-2458
- Box 114: Folders 2459-2480
- Box 115: Folders 2481-2503
- Box 116: Folders 2504-2525
- Box 117: Folders 2526-2546
- Box 118: Folders 2547-2561
- Box 119: Folders 2562-2574
- Box 120: Oversize materials
General note
Names
- Abbott, Jere
- Allerton, William
- Ames, Winslow
- Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 1885-1940
- Austin, Arthur Everett,1900-1957
- Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938
- Barr, Alfred Hamilton, 1902-
- Baum, Julius, 1882-
- Bell, Hamilton, 1857-1929
- Benesch, Otto, 1896-1964
- Berenson, Bernard,1865-1959
- Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945
- Berliner, Rudolf, 1886-
- Bingham, Henry
- Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943
- Birnbaum, Martin, 1878-1970
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962
- Bohn, J. Lloyd
- Brown, John Nicholas,1900-
- Brummer Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
- Buck, Richard D.
- Burroughs, Alan, 1897-1965
- Burroughs, Bryson, 1869-1934
- Chapin, Cornelia Van Auken, 1893-
- Chiera, Edward, 1885-1933
- Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, b. 1879
- Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
- Conant, Kenneth John, 1894-
- Constable, W. G. (William George), 1887-
- Coolidge, Charles Allerton, 1858-1936
- David, Sir Percival, 1892-
- Demotte, G. J., d. 1924
- Demotte, Inc.(New York, N.Y.)
- Demus, Otto
- DeWild, A. Martin
- Dossena, Alceo, 1878-1937
- Douglas, R. Langton
- Duell, Prentice, 1894-1960
- Dudley, Laura
- Durand-Ruel Galleries (New York,N.Y.)
- Durham, Charles
- Durlacher Bros. (New York, N.Y.)
- Duveen, Joseph Duveen, Baron, 1869-1939
- Duveen Brothers
- Edgell, George Harold, 1887-1954
- Ehrich, Robert W.
- Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
- Farnsworth, Marie
- Fewkes,Vladimir J.
- Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945
- Fitzgerald, Anne, 1902-
- Fogg, Elizabeth
- Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969
- Forbes, Margaret Laighton
- Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron),1870-1959
- Freedley, Durr, 1888-1938
- Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984
- Friedlander, Max J., 1867-1958
- Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
- Gettens, Rutherford J. (Rutherford John)
- Giedion, S.(Sigfried), 1888-1968
- Gilman, Margaret,1883-1969
- Gimpel & Wildenstein (Gallery: NewYork, N.Y.)
- Gnoli, Umberto, 1878-1947
- Goldman, Henry, 1856-
- Goldman, Hetty, 1881-1972
- Goldschmidt, Adolph, 1863-1944
- Graeff, Walter
- Greene, Belle da Costa
- Greene, Jerome Davis, 1874-1959
- Guiffrey, Jean
- Hahn, Andrée
- Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924
- Hanfmann, George Maxim Anossov, 1911-
- Henríquez Ureña, Pedro, 1884-1946
- Henry Reinhardt & Son
- Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1869-1943
- Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984
- Holt, George
- Holmes, C. J. (Charles John), 1868-1936
- Huntington, Archer M. (Archer Milton), 1870
- Iacovleff, Alexandre, 1887-1938
- Ives,Herbert Eugene, 1882-1953
- Jacques Seligmann &Co.
- Jayne, Horace H. F. (Horace Howard Furness),1898-
- Kelekian, Dikran G., 1868-1951
- Kimball, Sydney Fiske, 1888-1955
- Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-
- Kress, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1863-1955
- Krinkin, Lydia Nadejena
- Lake, Kirsopp, 1872-1946
- Laurie, A. P. (Arthur Pillans),1861-1949
- Lee of Fareham, Viscount (Arthur Hamilton Lee), 1868-1947
- Lehman, Arthur
- Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969
- Lochoff, Nicholas
- Loeb, James, 1867-1933
- Loeser, Charles A.
- Longstreet, Gilbert Wendel
- Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943
- Lucas, E. Louise (Edna Louise), b. 1899
- Lyon, R. Arcadius
- M. Knoedler &Co.
- Maclagan, Eric Robert Dalrymple, 1879-1951
- Mannes, Leopold D.
- Marle, Raimond van, 1888-1936
- Mather, Frank Jewett, 1868-1953
- Matisse, Henri,1869-1954
- Matisse, Pierre
- Meeks, Everett Victor, 1879-1954
- Miles, Emily Winthrop
- Mongan, Agnes
- Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930
- Morey, Charles Rufus,1877-1955
- Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont),1867-1943
- Mortier, Édouard Napoléon César Edmond, duc de Trevise, 1912-1946
- Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919
- Murray, John E.
- Newberry, John S. (John Stoughton), 1910-1964
- Newton, Roger Hale
- Nicolson, Benedict
- Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908
- Norton, Edith
- Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866-
- Norton, Richard, 1872-1918
- Norton, Sara, 1864-1922
- Offner, Richard, 1889-1965
- O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
- Opdycke, Leonard, 1895-1977
- Oppenheim, Max, Freiheir von, 1860-1946
- Pabst, Gustav, Jr.
- Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
- Paine, Robert Treat,1861-1943
- Pelliott, Paul, 1878-1945
- Perkins, F. Mason
- Pfeiffer, Robert Henry, 1892-1958
- Picasso, Pablo,1888-1973
- Platt, Dan Fellows, 1873-1938
- Plotz, Harry, 1890-1947
- Pope, Arthur, 1880-1974
- Pope, Arthur Upham, 1881-1959
- Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
- Porter, Lucy Kingsley
- Post, Chandler Rathfon, 1881-1959
- Pratt, Harriet Barnes
- Puyvelde, Leo van, 1882-
- Priest, Alan Reed, 1898-1969
- Robinson, Edward, 1858-1931
- Robinson, Frederick B.
- Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich
- Rockefeller, John D., 1906-1978
- Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937
- Rogers, Meyric R.(Meyric Reynold), 1893-
- Rosenberg, Jakob, 1893-
- Rosenberg, James N. (James Naumberg), b. 1874
- Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935
- Rowland, Benjamin, 1904-1972
- Rubenstein, Lewis W. (Lewis William), 1908-
- Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814
- Sachs, Arthur
- Sachs, Paul J. (PaulJoseph), 1878-1965
- Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 1880-
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
- Sayre, Eleanor A.
- Scheyer, Galka E.
- Schmidt-Degener, F. (Frederik),1881-1941
- Schroeder, Eric, 1904-
- Scott & Fowles (firm)
- Scott, Henry Edwards, 1900-
- Sickman, L.C. S. (Laurence C. S.)
- Siple, Walter H.
- Sirén, Osvald, 1879
- Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967
- Smith, Hammond, [d. 1927]
- Sommer, Clemens Ernst Joseph Adolf, 1891-
- Spiridon, Joseph, d.1930
- Starr, Richard F. S. (Richard Francis Strong),1900-
- Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943
- Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
- Stout, George L. (George Leslie)
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
- Sturgis, Russell,1836-1909
- Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957
- Thacher, John S.
- Thompson, Daniel V. (Daniel Varney), 1902-
- Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958
- Venturi, Adolfo, 1856-1941
- Vernon, Ambrose White, 1870-1951
- Walker, John,1906-1995
- Warburg, Edward M. M.
- Warburg, Felix M. (Felix Moritz), 1871-1937
- Warburg, Frieda Schiff, 1876-1958
- Warburg, Gerald Felix, 1902-1971
- Warner, Langdon, 1881-1955
- Warner, Lorraine d'O. (Lorraine d'Orémieulx), 1887-1965
- Warren, Gretchen Osgood
- Warner, Roger S.
- Wells, Cady, 1904-1954
- Wetzel, Hervey E.
- Wheatland, Richard, 1872-1944
- White, William Augustus, 1843-1927
- Whittemore, Thomas,1871-1950
- Widener, Joseph E. (Joseph Early),1872-1943
- Wiles, Bertha Harris, 1896-
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, 1884-1950
- Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943
- Witt, Robert Clermont, Sir, 1872-1952
- Wolfinsohn, Wolfe
- Yamanaka Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
- Zevallos, Fernando Ortiz de
- Ziloty, Alexandre
General note
Subjects
- Addison Gallery of American Art
- Adolphus Busch Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)
- American Academy in Rome
- American Association of Museums
- American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas
- American Federation of Arts
- Art--Attribution
- Art--Collectors and Collecting
- Art--Collectors and Collecting-Italy
- Art--Collectors and Collecting--United States
- Art--Conservation and Restoration
- Art--Conservation and Restoration--Europe-history
- Art--Conservation and Restoration--history
- Art--Conservation and Restoration--periodicals
- Art--Conservation and Restoration--technique
- Art--Conservation and Restoration--technological innovations
- Art--Conservation and Restoration--United States
- Art--Criticism and Interpretation
- Art dealers--France
- Art dealers--United States
- Art--Exhibitions
- Art--Exhibitions--History
- Art--Exhibition techniques
- Art--History-Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
- Art--History--20th Century
- Art in universities and colleges
- Art--Periodicals
- Art--Private collections
- Art--Study and Teaching-20th Century
- Art dealers
- Art historians
- Art museum directors
- Art museums--Administration
- Art museums--Educational aspects
- Art Museums--Massachusetts--Cambridge-History
- Art objects--Collectors and collecting
- Art objects--Conservation and Restoration
- Art objects--Prices
- Art objects--Private collections
- Art patronage--Massachusetts
- Art patrons
- Art--Periodicals--Indexes
- Art--private collections
- Art publishing
- Art--Scholarships, fellowships, etc.
- Art--Societies, etc.
- Art--Studyand teaching--United States
- Art--Study and teaching--20th century
- Artists' materials
- Artists
- Art treasures in war
- Ayasofya Müzesi
- Berenson Library
- Byzantine Institute of America
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico)
- Cloisters (Museum)
- Collectors and collecting
- College art museums--Massachusetts--Cambridge
- Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott
- Commercial documents
- Courtauld Institute of Art
- Cultural Property--Repatriation
- Drawing, European--Collectors and collecting
- Dumbarton Oaks
- Dunhuang Caves (China)
- Emergency Management-Massachusetts
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Exhibitions
- Expeditions
- Fogg Art Museum-Administration
- Fogg Art Museum--Benefactors
- Fogg Art Museum-History
- Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969--Correspondence
- Forgery of antiquities
- Fund raising
- Galerie Durand-Ruel
- Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940: San Francisco, Calif.)
- Graphische Sammlung Albertina
- Harvard Society for Contemporary Art
- Harvard University--Alumniand alumnae
- Harvard University-Anniversaries, etc.
- Harvard University-Benefactors
- Harvard University--Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship
- Harvard University-Faculty
- Harvard University--Germanic Museum
- Harvard University--History-20th Century
- Harvard University--Museums
- Harvard University--Portrait Collection
- Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum
- Kirkūk (Iraq)--Description and travel
- Kirkūk (Iraq)--History
- Lectures and lecturing
- Longmen Caves (China)-Antiquities
- Lyman Allyn Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.)
- Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont),1867-1943--Art collections
- Mosaics, Byzantine--Turkey--Istanbul
- Mural painting and decoration
- Musée du Louvre
- Museum directors
- Museum directors-Massachusetts
- Museum exhibits
- Museum loans
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Modern Art (New York,N. Y.)
- Museums--Massachusetts
- Nazi persecution of college teachers
- Naushon Island (Mass.)
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- Nuzi (Extinct city)
- Painting--Conservation and Restoration
- Painting--Expertising
- Painting--Forgeries
- Painting--Radiography
- Painting, European--Collectors and collecting
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Pennsylvania Museum of Art
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Pigments--analysis
- Political refugees
- Public libraries-Massachusetts--Boston
- Publications
- Red Cross
- Refugees
- Research Grants
- Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957--Political and Social Views--Exhibitions
- Rockefeller Center
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Rübel Asiatic Art Research Bureau
- Sculpture, European--Collectors and collecting
- Stradivarius Quartet
- Tariff Law and legislation
- Trade catalogs--Minerals
- Travel-Europe
- Vatican City
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Worcester Art Museum
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945--Art and the War
- World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage
- X-rays
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Yugoslavia--Description and travel
- Czechoslovakia--Description and travel
General note
Form/Genre Terms
- affidavits
- annual reports
- auction catalogs
- bills of lading
- blueprints (reprographic copies)
- condition reports
- contracts
- field notes
- financial records
- floor plans
- insurance records
- invoices
- letters of recommendation
- maps
- memorandums
- minutes
- newsletters
- page proofs
- photographic postcards
- postcards
- posters
- press releases
- radiograms
- rubbings
- shipping records
- ships plans
- sketches
- telegrams
- visiting cards
Processing Information
The collection was processed from January to April 2008 by Laura Morris. Some of the expedition records in the collection were processed by Meghan Lydon in 2006; these materials are now in folders 606 through 681.
Creator
Subject
- Amory, Mary Forbes Russell, 1870-1961 (Person)
- Brandegee, Mary, 1871-1956 (Person)
- Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933 (Person)
- Chase, Marion Monks, 1874-1957 (Person)
- Christian, Carolyn McKnight (Person)
- Conant, Grace Thayer Richards, 1898-1985 (Person)
- Converse, Mary Edith Dunshee (Person)
- Coolidge, Helen Stevens, 1876-1962 (Person)
- Curtis, Evelyn Weston (Person)
- Cutting, Helen McMahon, 1894-1961 (Person)
- Dane, Helen Pratt, 1867-1949 (Person)
- Darlington, Jean Bullitt, 1894-1976 (Person)
- Derby, Elizabeth Hasket (Person)
- Dexter, Isabelle Hunnewell, 1871-1968 (Person)
- Douglas, Jean Stewart (Person)
- Dunn, N.P. (Person)
- Fearing, Hester Sullivan Cochrane, 1875-1969 (Person)
- Lehman, Adele Lewisohn, 1882-1965 (Person)
- Lewis-Hind, Henriette, 1861- (Person)
- Moore, Ada Small, 1858-1955 (Person)
- Sachs, Louisa Goldman (Person)
- Snead, Louise Hammond Willis, 1870-1958 (Person)
- Sterner, Marie (Marie Walther) (Person)
- Stewart, Sarah Malcolm Klebs, 1899-1957 (Person)
- Thompson, Cecile de Luze Simonds (Person)
- Wadsworth, Alice Evelyn Hay, 1880-1960 (Person)
- Williams, Blanche E. Wheeler (Person)
- Title
- Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes (HC 2), 1867-2005: A Guide
- Author
- Harvard Art Museums Archives
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- These papers were processed with the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Getty Foundation
- EAD ID
- art00005
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Art Museums Archives Repository
The Harvard Art Museums Archives is the official repository for institutional records and historical documents in all formats relating to the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 1895 to the present. Its collections include papers of individuals and groups associated with the museums' history, including records of past exhibitions, architectural plans, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, as well as correspondence with collectors, gallery owners, museum professionals, and artists throughout the twentieth century. Its holdings also document the formation of the museums' collections and its mission as a teaching institution.
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