Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Bernard and Mary Berenson papers
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Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Collection Identifier: BER -8
Scope and Contents:
The papers contain for both Mary and Bernard Berenson biographical material, diaries, correspondence, and writings, both published and unpublished. There is also an extensive file of "Berensoniana," writings about Berenson and Villa I Tatti, but excluding reviews of publications. The papers are organized into seven series: I. Biographical, II. Collections, Villa I Tatti, and Harvard, III. Diaries, IV. Correspondence, V. Research and Writings, VI. Berensoniana, and VII. Photographs.
Edward W. Forbes collection of Harvard photographs
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 412
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains two photographs documenting Edward Waldo Forbes’s experience as a student at Harvard. It includes an 1893 photograph from Forbes’s sophomore year in a theater performance, labeled “DKE Play,” likely from Delta Kappa Epsilon. The back side of the mount has a handwritten list of the play’s cast, labeled "Dramatis Personae," with the names of each actor.The other photograph is from the Harvard College Class of 1895 graduation, featuring Forbes and other...
Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes and the Forbes family
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 139
Overview:
Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) was director of the Fogg Art Museum and lecturer in art history at Harvard University, an accomplished artist, and a world traveler. These papers document the personal and professional life of Edward Waldo Forbes and the lives of members of the Forbes family.
Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes, 1867-2005
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Harvard Art Museums Archives
Collection Identifier: HC 2
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,...
Teaching and Research Materials Collection, 1891-1968
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Harvard Art Museums Archives
Collection Identifier: HC 20
Overview:
The papers in this collection document Edward Waldo Forbes’s career as a professor of Fine Arts, Director of the Fogg Museum, and his research interests in the technical study of works of art. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1940. The papers consist of correspondence, lecture notes and outlines, assignment descriptions, visual materials for lectures, student work, recipes, technical notes, clippings, photographs, letters of introduction, paint samples, lists, invoices, and a...
Exhibition Records of the Harvard Art Museums, 1905-2008
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Harvard Art Museums Archives
Collection Identifier: HC 6
Overview:
These records were created by museum staff in the course of planning and installing exhibitions. They pertain primarily to exhibitions held in the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, but they also include materials related to traveling or off-site exhibitions. The records date from 1905-2008 and include correspondence on a wide range of topics, exhibition proposals, photographic prints and negatives, object lists, loan forms, press releases, clippings,...
Records of the Boston Committee of Sauvegarde de l'art Français, 1925-1938
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Harvard Art Museums Archives
Collection Identifier: SC 6
Overview:
This collection includes the meeting minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Boston Committee of Sauvegarde de l'art Français ("Protection of French Art") from the years 1925-1938. Also included are maps, floor plans, publicity and notes of the French town of Larressingle, which this committee raised money to purchase and restore.
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