History[edit]

The museum was originally housed in an Italian Renaissance-style building designed by Richard
Morris Hunt. According to Donald Preziosi, the museum was not initially established as a gallery for
the display of original works of art, but was founded as an institution for the teaching and study of
visual arts, and the original building contained classrooms equipped with magic lanterns, a library,
an archive of slides and photographs of art works, and exhibition space for reproductions of works of
art.[8] In 1925, the building was replaced by a Georgian Revival-style structure on Quincy Street,
designed by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott. (The original Hunt Hall remained, underutilized
until it was demolished in 1974 to make way for new freshman dormitories. [9])

Collection[edit]
The Fogg Museum is renowned for its holdings of Western paintings, sculpture, decorative arts,
photographs, prints, and drawings from the Middle Ages to the present. Particular strengths
include Italian Renaissance, British Pre-Raphaelite, and French art of the 19th century, as well as
19th- and 20th-century American paintings and drawings.
The museum's Maurice Wertheim Collection is a notable group of impressionist and post-
impressionist works that contains many famous masterpieces, including paintings and sculptures
by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van
Gogh. Central to the Fogg's holdings is the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, with more than 4,000
works of art. Bequeathed to Harvard in 1943, the collection continues to play a pivotal role in
shaping the legacy of the Harvard Art Museums, serving as a foundation for teaching, research, and
professional training programs. It includes important 19th-century paintings, sculpture, and drawings
by William Blake, Edward Burne-Jones, Jacques-Louis David, Honoré Daumier, Winslow
Homer, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Alfred Barye, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, John
Singer Sargent, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
The art museum has Late Medieval Italian paintings by the Master of Offida,[10] Master of Camerino,
[11]
 Bernardo Daddi, Simone Martini, Luca di Tomme, Pietro Lorenzetti, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Master
of Orcanesque Misercordia, Master of Saints Cosmas and Damiançand Bartolomeo Bulgarini.
Flemish Renaissance paintings — Master of Catholic Kings, Jan Provoost, Master of Holy
Blood, Aelbert Bouts, and Master of Saint Ursula.
Italian Renaissance period paintings — Fra Angelico, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico
Ghirlandaio, Gherardo Starnina, Cosme Tura, Giovanni di Paolo, and Lorenzo Lotto.
French Baroque period paintings — Nicolas Poussin, Jacques Stella, Nicolas Regnier, and Philippe
de Champaigne.
Dutch Master paintings — Rembrandt, Emanuel de Witte, Jan Steen, Willem Van de Velde, Jacob
Van Ruisdael, Salomon van Ruysdael, Jan van der Heyden, and Dirck Hals.
American paintings — Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, Robert Feke, Sanford Gifford, James
McNeil Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Man Ray, Ben Shahn, Jacob
Lawrence, Lewis Rubenstein, Robert Sloan, Phillip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Kerry James Marshall,
and Clyfford Still.