Vastly More Than Brick and Mortar: Reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s

, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums

This exhibition examines the history and conception of the new Fogg Art Museum (opened June 1927) as the first purpose-built structure in North America for the specialized training of art scholars and critics as well as museum professionals. The exhibition, which presents architectural drawings, fund-raising materials, documentary photographs and works of art collected for Harvard’s new “Fine Arts laboratory,” considers the reinvented Fogg as a built space and as an academic concept, positioning it within the larger context of the invention of art institutions internationally.

Organized by Kathryn Brush, Professor of Art History, University of Western Ontario.

The publication Vastly More Than Brick and Mortar: Reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s, by Kathryn Brush, accompanies the exhibition.

Exhibition Objects