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FOGG MUSEUM NOT FOR HARVARD MEN ALONE, DECLARES LUCE

Ranks College Art Museums on Par With Those of World-Famed Institutions

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In a review of "Greek and Roman Sculpture in American Collections," by Professor George H. Chase '96, Stephen B. Luce '09 In the Harvard Graduate Magazine, ranks the Fogg Art Museum high among the art museums of the country. In part he says:

"For a long time the art-loving public has been in need of just such a book. It has long been known that our American museums sheltered many excellent examples of Greek and Roman sculpture; but just how rich they are it has remained for this book to teach us.

"For the student and art lover who lives at some distance from. New England it will doubtless come as a surprise to learn what a large number of interesting and important specimens of Greek sculpture may be found at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. The fame of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a repository of objects of Classical Art is widespread, not only in this country, but abroad.

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