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From: Biography.com Date: 8/9/2002 Teacher, collector; born
in Cincinnati,
Ohio. He graduated from Harvard (B.A. 1875; M.A. 1880; Ph.D. 1880),
worked
under Henry Adams, and taught in the architecture and fine arts
department
at Harvard beginning in 1899. He also worked in the fine arts
department
of the Fogg Art Museum beginning in 1909. He wrote several theoretical
books on art, including A Theory of Pure Design (1907). An avid
traveler,
he collected oriental art, which he donated to both Boston's and
Harvard's
Fogg Museums. Notes:
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