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Paul Joseph Sachs (November 24, 1878 – February 18, 1965) was an American investor, businessman and museum director. Sachs served as associate director of the Fogg Art Museum and as a partner in the financial firm Goldman Sachs. He is recognized for having developed one of the earliest museum studies courses in the United States.
Paul J. Sachs was an influential museum administrator and businessman best known as director at Harvard University’s Fogg Museum from 1915 to 1945 and a professor whose object-based teaching profoundly influenced curatorial practices and museum studies in the United States.
Overview. Harvard associate director of the Fogg Art Museum; developer of one of the early museum studies courses in the United States. Sachs was the eldest son of Samuel Sachs and Louisa Goldman Sachs, the father a partner of the investment firm Goldman Sachs.
Professor of Fine Arts, 1927-1948. Paul Joseph Sachs (November 24, 1878 – February 17, 1965) served as Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard between 1927 to 1948, and as Associate Director of the Fogg Art Museum between 1909 and 1945. Sachs began lecturing in art history from 1916 to 1917 at Wellesley College where he had been appointed "Lecturer ...
Paul Sachs' first lectures were not at Har- wall space, were master prints and drawings. PAUL than skirt the categories to which each object JOSEPH SACHS Art." In 1917 he was appointed Assistant belonged and discuss where its peers were to (1879-1965) Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard. So began be found, what was its bibliography, its his ...
Overview. These papers of Fogg Museum associate director Paul J. Sachs document his administration of the museum, his teaching career at Harvard, and related professional activities.
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Sachs later became an Honorary Trustee and the Paul J. Sachs Galleries for Drawings and Prints was named in his honor in 1964. Sachs was an avid collector of drawings and prints and gave the first drawing to enter the Museum's collection, Portrait of Anne Peter by George Grosz.
