In honor of its 100th anniversary, the Museum is proud to publish a book about its eminent fourthdirector, Otto Wittmann (1911?2001). His thirty years in Toledo, from 1946 through 1976 (as director from 1959), saw the Toledo Museum of Art become internationally acclaimed for its collection and its community programs. The book describes his path to Toledo, from Kansas City via Harvard University and the Art Looting Investigation Unit of the OSS during World War II. It then focuses on his expansionof the art collection, galleries, and exhibitions and on his development of professional and volunteerstaff. It concludes with a tribute about his contributions to the museum field in America.

Otto Wittmann: Museum man for all seasons

Duncan, Sally Anne

Toledo Museum of Art

From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878–1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, “Museum Work and Museum Problems,” through Harvard University’s Fine Arts Department. Known simply as the Museum Course, the program was responsible for shaping a professional field—museum curatorship and management—that, in turn, defined the organizational structure and values of an institution through which the American public came to know art. Conceived at a time of great museum expansion and public interest in the United States, the Museum Course debated curatorial priorities and put theory into practice through the placement of graduates in museums big and small across the land. In this book, authors Sally Anne Duncan and Andrew McClellan examine the role that Sachs and his program played in shaping the character of art museums in the United States in the formative decades of the twentieth century. The Art of Curating is essential reading for museum studies scholars, curators, and historians.

The Art of Curating: Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard

McClellan, Andrew

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Otto Wittmann: Museum man for all seasons

The Art of Curating: Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard