Kolo Phon Fogg Bulletin 1936

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The President and Fellows of Harvard College

Harvard Art Museum

Explorations and ExcavationsAuthor(s): Margaret E. GilmanSource: Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Vol. 5, No. 3, Tercentenary Issue (Summer, 1936),pp. 52-54Published by: The President and Fellows of Harvard College on behalf of Harvard Art MuseumStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4301003 .

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BULLETIN OF THE FOGG ART MUSEUM

unknown artistic personalities as yet un-named.Although the total number of artists maynot be greatly increased in the course of thenext few years, it is not too much to expectthat the collection may be doubled in size bythe addition of new examples of the styles ofpainters already included. For the researchstudent in certain fields of painting it wouldalso be advantageous to have X-ray recordsof the work of some of the important follow-ers of the principal painters. In anticipa-tion of this, a "want" list has been pre-pared with the names of some go artists asyet unrepresentedin the collection, of whom62 are Italian. When these are added to thefiles, the Fogg Museum will have gone along way toward the completion of a newkind of library, unrivalled elsewhere. Ad-vanced studentsjoin the officersof the Mu-seum in the belief that a library of suchvalue deserves encouragement.

ALAN BURROUGHS

THE FOGG MUSEUM LIBRARYOne question is asked perhaps more than

any other by visitors and new students inour museum library. Is this the Univer-sity's fine arts library? And to that questionwe reply that the Fogg Museum library isbut a part of the whole Harvard Universitylibrary - that our resources are not con-fined within our own walls, but extend to allthe collections of that great library and toall the privileges which it bestows. Toclarify this statement - the Fogg Museumpolicy for the purchase of books is chieflythis: to buy for undergraduate needs asfreely as funds allow, even though this dupli-cates in most cases what is already available;to buy dictionaries, reference books and thefundamental historical and critical books;to buy current periodicals so that the under-graduate as well as the graduate studentmay be aware of the contemporary work andresearch that is being done; to collect mu-seum bulletins, reports and exhibition cata-logues. For many an individual and formany a library they are of merely ephemeral

interest; we want them all, for they oftencontain elusive bits of information, neededand difficult to find.Related to our policy of acquisition is thatof recommendation to the main college li-brary. We feel that in that collection shouldbe centered all the source material, the in-dividual monographs, the related historyand literature required for research. Sucha division of collections means, of course,that bibliographical lists and a union cata-logue must be compiled and maintained.Of photographs an enormous number hasbeen gathered, classified and catalogued.'They cover the fields of architecture, draw-ing, painting, sculpture and the variousminor arts, and are used for study in thecourses given in the fine arts department.Through specific requests and general de-velopment this collection is constantly en-larged to meet the demands made upon it.Lantern slides required for lectures are madewhenever possible from our own photo-graphs. New courses create new needs and

this collection must increase steadily to meetthem. In scope and in general developmentthe slide collection parallels that of photo-graphs.Demands are many and varied, butwhether they come from students or fromvisitors, the library hopes and plans toshare in the Museum's response to them.E. LOUISE LUCAS

I A detailed account of the collection ofSpanish photographs appeared in the FoggMuseum Bulletin for November, 1935.

EXPLORATIONS ANDEXCAVATIONSThe Museum entered the field of originalexcavations and research in the field ofarchaeology in 192 1, when Dr. Hetty Gold-man, Excavator for the Fogg Art Museumin Greek Lands, first went to Greece insearch of a site for investigation. The sitechosen was Colophon, one of the importantcities of ancient Ionia, and in I922 its ex-

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cavation was undertaken as a joint enter-prise of the American School of ClassicalStudies at Athens and the Fogg Art Mu-seum. The campaign, however, was inter-rupted by political conditions and, with theexception of a second campaign in I925,further work seemed unadvisable. Thesetwo campaigns were, however, productive ofinteresting results - among them the un-covering of many remains of private houses,mostly of the fourth century B.C., the find-ing of inscriptions important for the historyand topography of ancient Colophon, andthe discovery of a bee-hive tomb, an un-usual monument for this region.

Work was then undertaken at Eutresis,Boeotia, a well-stratified site chiefly of theBronze Age. Excavations were carried on inthe course of four successive campaigns -1924, I925, I 926, I 92 7 -which resulted inimportant contributions to our knowledgeof the chronological development both ofthe Bronze Age pottery and of the types ofhouses in use north of the Gulf of Corinth inthis period. The results of the excavationsat Eutresis were published by Dr. Goldmanin I93I, in a fully illustrated volume.In I923-1924 the Museum undertook apreliminary exploratory expedition alongthe great trade route between China andIndia - the region where investigationsmade by the British, the French, the Ger-mans, the Japanese, and the Russians hadbrought to light material of both artistic andhistorical significance. The expedition wasunder the leadership of Langdon Warner,Keeper of the Oriental Department andFellow of the Fogg Art Museum for Re-search in Asia; Horace Howard FurnessJayne, who was then Curator of Oriental Artat the Pennsylvania Museum, accompaniedthe expedition. Cave chapels were investi-gated, valuable finds including fragments ofBuddhist wall-paintings were made in thedeserted city of Kara Khoto, the Edzina ofMarco Polo; photographs were taken andrubbings were made from Chinese inscrip-tions - material invaluable for study. Themost significant results of this expedition werethe acquiring for the Museum of fragmentsof eighth to ninth century wall-paintings

and the eighth-century unbaked polychromeclay statue of an Adoring Bodhisattva, oneof the Museum's most beautiful possessions.A brief expedition was undertaken in I924-25; five early Buddhist sites, up to this timeunrecorded, were studied. In recent yearsconditions in China have not been favour-able to archaeological work.In January, I930, Sir Aurel Stein was ap-pointed Honorary Fellow of the Fogg ArtMuseum for Research in Asia. Conjointlywith the British Museum explorations weremade in Persia; the finds were chiefly ofarchaeological interest.During four seasons, I927-28-I930-3I,excavations were carried on by the Semiticand Fogg Museums and for a short time thePeabody Museum, the University of Penn-sylvania, and the American Schools of Ori-ental Research, Baghdad, near Kirkuk, Iraq,on the site of the city of Nuzi where the raceof Hurri lived and flourished about i 500 B.C.The excavations of I927-28 were under thedirectorship of Dr. Edward Chiera; inI928-29 Dr. Robert Pfeiffer of the SemiticMuseum was in charge; the work of the lasttwo seasons was under the directorship ofRichard F. S. Starr, Fellow of the Fogg ArtMuseum for Research in the Near East.The main purpose of the work was to getas complete a conception as possible of onelevel of the city - the Nuzi level - butlower and earlier levels were explored andcleared. Valuable inscribed tablets werefound from which there has been derived a"great wealth of new material, linguisti-cally, historically, and geographically im-portant." Among the tablets was one onwhich was drawn a map - the earliest mapyet found. Pottery and fragments of archi-tectural decoration were also brought tolight, and sculptures in glazed terracotta,among them the green glazed lion in theClassical Exhibition Gallery of which Mr.Starr wrote: " Its subtlety of feeling, itsgrace and delicacy of line make it one of theoutstanding objects of artistic worth foundin Mesopotamia."In I932 and I933 the Peabody Museum,the American School of Prehistoric Re-search, and the Fogg Museum sponsored an

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expedition to southern Jugoslavia, a regioncontaining sites of the Neolithic, Bronze, andIron Ages, and of the Greek, Macedonian,Roman, and Byzantine Periods. Dr. HettyGoldman represented the Fogg Museumand was in charge of the classical and pre-classical work. Territory previously un-touched was investigated and new data ob-tained in regard to this region, which is soimportant in the prehistory of southeasternEurope.

In I935 the Fogg Museum joined withthe Semitic Museum in archaeological ex-peditions to Serabit el-Khadin in the SinaiPeninsula, and to Van, Armenia. At Serabitnew Egyptian material was obtained; theexpedition to Van made a preliminary sur-vey of this important region.During the summer of I935 the Museumwas enabled to participate in the first sea-son's work of an expedition to Tarsus inCilicia, supported by the Archaeological In-stitute of America and Bryn Mawr College.The work was in the nature of a preliminary

campaign, but the results gave excellentpromise.MARGARET E. GILMAN

MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS RELATING TOEXPLORATIONS AND EXCAVATIONS

HETTY GOLDMANPreliminary Report on the Excavations atEutresis in Boeotia. Fogg Art MuseumNotes,Special Number, September, I92 7.Excavations at Eutresis in Boeotia, Con-ducted by the Fogg Art Museum of Har-vard University in Co6peration with theAmerican School of Classical Studies atAthens, Greece. Cambridge, 193 I.

R. F. S. STARRExcavations in Iraq. Bulletin of the FoggArt Museum, November, I931.Kirkuk Expedition. Fogg Art MuseumNotes, June, I 930.

LANGDON WARNERChinese Expedition, I923-24. Fogg ArtMuseum Notes, April, I925.

THE GERMANIC MUSEUMThe Germanic Museum in many ways isclosely related to the Fogg Museum. It isunder the same directorship and, by special-izing in the art of Germany, Austria, theNetherlands, and the Scandinavian coun-tries, relieves the Fogg Museum from ex-pending its energies in these fields.The Museum was founded in I 902 by Pro-fessor Kuno Francke, through whose effortsit rose to its present position of importance.Originally intended as an aid to the German

Department in the teaching of Germanicculture, it has greatly broadened its scope.The extensive collection of reproductions ofGerman sculpture, metal work, and ivorieshas been supplemented by a small but well-chosen collection of original works of art.Paintings from the fifteenth to the twentiethcenturies, sculpture, tapestries, porcelains,prints, and drawings have all been acquired.The modern decorative art section illus-trates machine creations in glass, pottery,metal work, textiles, and printing. A splen.did group of sculpture by Barlach, Kolbe,Lehmbruck, Minne, de Fiori, Sintenis, andBelling, and paintings by Dix, Feininger,Grosz, Hofer, Kandinsky, Klee, Nolde, andothers represent the most important phasesof contemporary German art.The usefulness of the permanent collec-tions has been augmented by a wide varietyof loan exhibitions which permit the studentto see objects of art that are beyond thereach of the meager resources of the Mu-seum. A random mention of a few of theseexhibitions will show the great range ofsubjects illustrated: German Prints fromI450 to I 930; Dutch Painting of the Seven-teenth Century; Sculpture by Georg Kolbe;Modern German Ecclesiastical Art; Mod-ern German Photography; Etchings andDry-points by Rembrandt; Drawings byContemporary German Sculptors; ModernDesign in German Textiles and Pottery;Modern Swedish Glass; Engravings by Al-brecht Diurer.

The Museum has inaugurated other meth-ods of bringing Germanic culture before theAmerican public. Lectures by eminentEuropean and American scholars have been54

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