Scope and Contents
This series is comprised primarily of materials relating to Forbes’s lectures for the Fine Arts department at Harvard. Materials include laboratory inventories and supply lists, lecture notes and outlines, correspondence with students, slide and photograph lists, and administrative materials related to his courses including exams and examples of students’ work. Topics covered include Florentine and Venetian technique, tempera, fresco painting, pigment, mosaics, forgeries, and the care and preservation of paintings. The visual materials include slides based on artists and artistic technique while some slides are based on, or used in Forbes’s lectures.
Dates
- Creation: 1903-1942
Conditions on Access
Unrestricted
Extent
22.6 linear feet (51 Hollinger boxes, 4 lantern slide boxes, 1 oversize folder)Creator
- From the Collection: Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 (Person)
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The Harvard Art Museums Archives is the official repository for institutional records and historical documents in all formats relating to the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 1895 to the present.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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