Edward W. Forbes
Harvard art historian and director of the Fogg Art Museum
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Waldo Forbes was an American art historian. He was the Director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University from 1909 to 1944. Early life Edward Waldo Forbes, of the Forbes family, was born on July 16, 1873, on Naushon Island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. His father, William Hathaway Forbes, was a co-founder of the Bell Telephone Company with Alexander Graham Bell. His mother, Edith Emerson Forbes, was the daughter of poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. His paternal grandfather, John Murray Forbes, was a French-born railroad magnate, merchant, and abolitionist. His brother, William Cameron Forbes, went on to serve as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 1930 to 1932.
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