Word: hofer
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...students were given the Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting, a new award created in honor of the late Philip Hofer '21, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum...
...award is given every three years to a graduate or undergraduate whose collection of art or books best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence and imagination exemplified by Hofer, who formed and gave to the College a collection wide in scope, original in conception and scholarly in purpose, according to a press release...
Melvin R. Seiden '52, a member of the Visiting Committee for the Fogg, and a collector himself, established and funded the prize in Hofer's memory...
Wolfgang M. Freitag, one of the judges and Fine Arts librarian, said that the judges considered the scope of the collection, the consistency with which they had been compiled, the kind of collection that Hofer liked, as well as the format and style in which the collecting purpose was presented...
Freitag said he and the other two judges, Eleanor M. Garvey, the Philip Hofer curator of printing and graphic arts, and John M. Rosenfield, the Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art and a curator of the Fogg Art Museum, chose two winners and two honorable mentions because the entries were so good...