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

The new Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University opened in 1927 as an architectural and academic experiment: it was the first structure in North America designed for the specialised training of art scholars and museum professionals. This illustrated book - a history of the formative years of the Fogg Art Museum - discusses the educational and cultural philosophies behind its conception, the historical, social and economic circumstances, its teaching activities, its art collections, and its research, library and technical resources.

Kathryn Brush is associate professor of art history at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.