REPORT ON FOGG ART MUSEUM

The annual report of Director Edward W. Forbes '95 on the Fogg Art Museum for the year 1911-12 shows a moderate growth in exhibits over the previous year.

The following works of art were received as gifts: from Alfred Atmore Pope, Esq., of Farmington, Conn., a Tondo of the late Italian School, representing the Adoration of the Shepherds; from Paul J. Sachs '00, 12 etchings by Herman A. Webster, which complete the collection of Webster's work to date, 11 lithographs by Joseph Pennell, 6 lithographs by Alexandre Calame, and 1 etching by Jules Ferdinand and Jacquemart; from the Misses Norton, 38 objects including Greek vases, terracottas etc.; from the estate of the Rev. Edward H. Hall, of the class of 1851, 4 small drawings and 2 portions of pages of a Choral; and from R. Ederheimer, the Holy Family, an engraving by Albrecht Altdorfer.

Valuable prints have been added to the Gray Collection by purchase: The Adoration of the Magi, and S. Thomas, engravings by Martin Schongauer; Dumbarton Rock, Leader Sea-Piece, and Morpeth, etchings from the series of Turner's Liber Studiorum. Three prints have been purchased for the Randall Collection, namely: The Climbers, engraving by Marcantonio after Michelangelo, which is one of the few remaining traces of Michelangelo's famous cartoon of the "Battle with the Pisans" which strangely disappeared; a fine impression of the Judgment of Paris, also by Marcantonio, after Raphael; and Holy Island Cathedral, etching by Turner for the Liber Studiorum. The print collection now numbers 915. The photograph collection at present contains 43,783 specimens, and the slide collection 5,110.

As to the building itself, the report remarks upon the changes on the ground floor where the large lecture hall has been split up by a semi-circular wall into a smaller lecture room capable of holding about 205 people, with a raised platform at the back suitable for the exhibition of large casts; and a semicircular corridor outside the lecture room, for the exhibition of other casts. This adds materially to the exhibition space in the Museum, and makes it possible to separate the casts and the original works of art. These are the principal improvements, though other minor ones have been effected.