Fogg Art Museum

Richard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture. Hunt was, according to design critic Paul Goldberger writing in The New York Times, "American architecture's first, and in many ways its greatest, statesman."... Aside from Hunt's sculpting of the face of New York City, including designs for the facade and Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and many Fifth Avenue mansions lost to the wrecking ball, Hunt founded both the American Institute of Architects and the Municipal Art Society. Born at Brattleboro, Vermont, Hunt was the son of Jane Maria Leavitt, born to an influential family of Suffield, Connecticut, and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, a U.S. congressman whose own father was the lieutenant governor of Vermont, and scion of the wealthy and prominent Hunt family of Vermont. Richard Morris Hunt was the brother of the Boston painter William Morris Hunt, and the photographer and lawyer Leavitt Hunt. (Hunt was named for Lewis Richard Morris, a family relation, who was a U.S.
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The Arthur M. Sackler Museum joins the Fogg Museum and the Busch-Reisinger Museum as part of the Harvard Art Museums. Its postmodern building was... designed by British architect James Stirling, generally regarded as the greatest British architect of the 20th century, and recipient of the Pritzker Prize in 1981 . The most prominent of the four Stirling-designed buildings in the U.S., the Sackler opened to the public in October 1985. It is, curator John Rosenfield wrote in Harvard's celebratory publication on the museum, "a tribute to James Stirling's clarity of vision, to Arthur Sackler's generosity and loyalty, to Harvard University's commitment to the visual arts, and to Seymour Slive's fiery and single-minded devotion to the project." Even before the Sackler's completion, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable observed that "The event causing the most stir in professional circles right now is the awarding of three prime American commission to the English architect James Stirling.
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