IIO DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. 



Staff. Director, Arthur Fairbanks; Secretary, Benjamin Ives 

 Gilman; Advisor, Okakura-Kakuzo (Chinese and Japanese art); 

 Head of Egyptian expedition, G. A. Reisner; Honorary curator, 

 Frank G. Macomber (Western art except paintings and textiles) ; 

 Curators, Emil H. Richter (prints), Arthur Fairbanks (classical art); 

 Associate curators, Francis G. Curtis (Chinese and Japanese art); 

 Assistant curators, Lacey D. Caskey (classical art), Langdon Warner 

 (Chinese and Japanese art); Keepers, Edward S. Morse (Japanese 

 pottery), Francis S. Kershaw (Chinese and Japanese art), John B. 

 Potter (paintings); Docent, L. Earle Rowe; Secretary to director and 

 registrar, Sidney N. Deane; Librarian, Morris Carter; Assistants, 

 J. Arthur McLean (Chinese and Japanese art), L. Earle Rowe (Egyp- 

 tian art), Florence V. Paull (Western art except paintings and textiles), 

 Sarah G. Flint (textiles), Francis E. Turner (photographs); Assistant 

 librarian, Martha Fenderson; Superintendent of building, W. W. Mc- 

 Lean; Assistant superintendent, James F. McCabe; 24 office assistants; 

 30 superintendent's assistants. 



Collections. Egyptian Art: Sculptures, including royal statues 

 from the Mycerinus Pyramid Temple at Gizeh; smaller objects includ- 

 ing cut leather garment of 1350 b. c, gold ornaments, and tiles. 

 Classical Art: Sculptures, including Three-sided Relief (5th century), 

 Head of Aphrodite, female head from Chios (4th century), Head of 

 Homer (Hellenistic) ; terra cottas, including Portrait-Head (Roman) ; 

 vases; bronzes; coins; and gems, including Marlborough Cameo 

 (Graeco-Roman). Chinese and Japanese Art: Sculptures of wood, 

 bronze, marble, and lacquer from the 5th century to the present time; 

 paintings, including the Hokke Mandara (5th century) and the Heiji 

 Monogatari Roll (13th century) ; early Chinese pottery; Chinese bronze 

 mirrors, swords, and lesser works in sculptured iron, bronze, silver, 

 and gold; lacquers and porcelains. Western Art. Paintings: Spanish, 

 Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French, English, and American, including Don 

 Baltazar Carlos and His Dwarf, Velasquez; Slave Ship, Turner; Wat- 

 son and the Shark, Copley; Athenaeum Heads of George and Martha 

 Washington, Stuart. Mohammedan Art: Pottery, including Sears 

 Persian Lustre bowl (13th century), Persian illuminations, rugs, and 

 velvets. European Art: Textiles, including Flemish tapestries (15th 

 and early 16th centuries); sculpture, including Head of Ceres by 

 Auguste Rodin; smaller objects, including Paul Revere silver. Other 

 Collections: Casts from Greek, Roman, and Italian renaissance sculp- 

 ture; and a collection of 60,000 prints. 



