Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984 |
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role
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Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert |
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dates
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1898-1984 |
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city
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Cambridge |
| state | MA | | other cities | Cincinnati, OH; |
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sex
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historical notes
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Philip Hofer was a collector and former curator and founder, 1938, of Harvard's department of printing and graphic arts.
He was secretary of the Fogg Art Museum, a trustee of the American School for Classical Studies in Athens and chairman of the Bernard Berenson Villa I. Tatti Committee in Florence.
Hofer's collection had strong fifteenth- and eighteenth-century Italian holdings, included groups as divergent as Chinese block prints and illuminated manuscripts.
Hofer's collection included work by Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Claude Lorrain, Gilles Corrozet (author) and Hans Lutzelberger after Hans Holbein, the Younger, Albrecht Dürer, Francis Seymour Haden, Hans Holbein the Younger, Charles Knowles, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Arthur Pond and Charles Knapton after Various Artists, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Ugo da Carpi after Giovanni Antonio Pordenone.
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decades
of activity | 1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
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10/31/2024 13:33:21 |
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Archives/Repository |
Collection Title |
Collection Details |
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Drawing Society lectures, 1961-1962. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Dan Fellows Platt papers, 1914-1963 |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Castano Galleries records, 1907-1983. |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Durlacher Bros. Records, 1919-1973. |
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Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
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Robert S. Pirie papers, 1956-2005. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Oral history interview with Eleanor M. Garvey, 1997 Feb. 28 - June 13. |
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University of Pennsylvania
Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections |
Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [between 1938 and 1963]. |
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University of Pennsylvania
Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections |
Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1940-1956. |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Syllabus for N.Y.U. Fine Arts 270, "Spanish Painting from Goya to Miro," 1945
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Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies |
The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) |
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