Vastly More Than Brick and Mortar: Reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

second century AD

Hans Holbein

For generations of artists

Paulo Herkenhoff is a former adjunct curator

Vastly More Than Brick and Mortar: Reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s Ewa Lajer-BurcharthKathryn Brush Published in 2003 ISBN 1 891771 33 7 6 7 8x10 1 4 in. 231 pages; 106 b&w illustrations Cloth Published by the Harvard University Art Museums Distributed by Yale University Press When the new Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University opened in 1927 as an architectural and academic experiment: it was the rst structure in North America designed for the specialized training of art scholars and museum professionals. The new Fogg gave