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...response to concerns, Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., graduate of Harvard Law School in 1964 and curator of American Art at the Fogg Art Museum said, “I think that if the painting was donated last year, then it would be insensitive, but after 77 years, it’s not insensitive, but instead impractical to attempt to contact a scattered group of descendants of the initial benefactor...
...some criticize the sale on the grounds that the Fogg Museum is getting rid of an artwork of great aesthetic significance in order to increase its endowment, according to comments on internet blogs such as www.freerepublic.com...
During the first week of classes every September, hundreds of Harvard students flock to the Fogg Museum in hopes of choosing from the best selection of prints. According to Susan Dackerman, Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, the program offers artwork by young, emerging artists as well as works by famous artists like Joan Miro and Robert Rauschenberg...
...order to get the best prints, however, you must be fast, warns Luke M. Appling ’06, who has rented twice from the Fogg. Appling arrived at the museum at noon on the first day of rentals in September and was shocked at how limited the selection had already become after only three or four hours...
...actual desire for fine art or simply a hunger for bragging rights that drives us to the Fogg? The answer is both. According to Appling, “Many people line up to get the really big names.” Alexandra T. Pape ’08, on the other hand, rented a large photograph of a decomposing car to put over her fireplace freshman year because she felt it matched her room...