Reminiscences of Paul Joseph Sachs, 1958.

Biographical Note

Professor of fine arts

Scope and Contents

Childhood, early career as banker and subsequent work in fine arts at Harvard until 1930; impressions of scholars of art and science; print collecting; collectors and their purveyors; patrons of art in the 20th century; Fogg Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art; Harvard Museum course; cooperation with Princeton Department of Art and Archaeology; Bliss Collection at Dumbarton Oaks; Roberts Fine Arts Commission, World War II; American museums after World War II with particular reference to activities of former students; a retrospective look at art critics, dealers, training, and the development of art in America. Pertinent correspondence follows each major segment of the oral history

Subjects

• Art--Collectors and collecting.
• Art--Study and teaching.
• Art.
• Art criticism.
• Art historians--Interviews.
• Art museums.
• Benison, Saul, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Fogg Art Museum.
• Harvard University.
• Interviews.
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965--Interviews.