ARE STUDYING AT FOGG TO PRESERVE ART TREASURES

According to a recent announcement made by Mr. E. W. Forbes '95, Director of the Fogg Art Museum, extensive experiments in the preservation of paintings, such as are carried on in few other art schools, are being pursued here at Harvard.

"The paintings of some of our modern leading artists," he said, "may not last more than 50 years because of the use of inferior canvas or pigments. Many of the old masterpieces recently imported to this country are in danger, now, of destruction as the result of improper care."

Several years ago the imminence of this peril. Mr. Forbes said, was realized and much research work has been done by him and others in this country in an effort to find a remedy.

"Experiments by which we expect to evolve methods and treatment," he continued, "which will preserve the art of the present and that of the old masters have been under way in the Fogg Art Museum for some time.

"Already we have been of service to modern artists. We are educating here at Harvard, the men in the Fine Arts classes who are studying to be directors and curators of museums, in the way in which paintings should be cared for."

In conclusion, Mr. Forbes emphasized the fact that since within the last few years many of the art treasures of Europe had been imported to this country, the preservation of them has fallen upon this country as an inescapable responsibility.