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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.
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.
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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 (1951-1935) and Louisa Goldman, the youngest daughter of Marcus Goldman, a partner of the investment firm Goldman Sachs. Paul Sachs attended the School for Boys and Collegiate Institu...
Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1940;A Loan Exhibition of Early Italian Engravings (intaglio) Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915;Modern Prints & Drawings: a Guide to a Better Understanding of Modern Draftsmanship. New York: Knopf, 1954;The Pocket Book of Great Drawings. New York, Pocket Books, 1951.[obituaries:] “Dr. Paul J. Sachs Dead at 86; Art Expert Led Fogg Museum.” New York Times. February 19, 1965, p. 35; “Paul J. Sachs.” Art Journal25 no. 1 (Fall 1965): 50-52;Mongan, Agnes. “Introduction.” Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, 1965, pp. 7-13;[unpublished memoir] Sachs, Paul J. “Tales of an Epoch,” Harvard University Art Museums Archives;Rossiter, Henry P. “Albertina for Boston?” Apollo96 (August 1972): 135-7;He died peacefully in his library, surrounded by his books, prints, and art, in February 1965. The prototype of the silver-spoon baby, Paul Joseph Sachs was born in November 1878 in New York City, the eldest son of Samuel Sachs (a partner...
THE SACHS BEQUEST PAUL J. SACHS died in February, I965. Pursuant to his will the Fogg received the largest addition to its collections since the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest in I943. In his lifetime Paul Sachs's name had become veritably a household word, con-noting taste and connoisseurship-particularly in respect to master
Jun 10, 2014 · Sachs became assistant curator at the Fogg in the autumn of 1915, and soon thereafter he became a lecturer at Wellesley College and an assistant professor of fine arts at Harvard. He became a full professor in 1927. Sachs proved an influential force in the world of art and museum studies.
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Sachs, one of the founding members of The Museum of Modern Art, served as Trustee from October 3, 1929 through November 10, 1938. When asked to recommend a Director for the new Museum, he suggested Alfred H. Barr, Jr., a young student of his from Harvard.
