Francis Henry Taylor (1903 with Philadelphia - 1957 with Worcester (Massachusetts)) was preserving Philadelphia Museum off Art, then directing of the Worcester Art Museum of the Massachusetts, before joining the Metropolitan Museum off Art as director of 1940 with 1955. It develops its idea that a museum, as an institution or a public service, is not a simple deposit of works of Article One him must have doubled the number of visitors during his career: up to 2,3 million each year.

Studies

Taylor off studies and obtains its diploma with the University Pennsylvania in 1924. It goes then in France where it teaches English with the College of Chartres, of 1924 at 1925. He then studies with the Sorbonne where he meets the medievalist Henri Focillon of which he becomes the pupil. On its return to the United States, it is registered with Princeton and spends the year 1926-27 to Europe as a Carnegie Fellow .

Career

It returns to the United States in 1928, wife Pamela Coyne and gives up her studies with Princeton to become preserving off of medieval art to the Philadelphia Museum Art, then directed by Fiske Kimball. During its last years with Philadelphia, he is editor of the publications of the museum and fact of the noticed installations of medieval art in the new building.

In 1931, it is named director of the Worcester Museum off Art with Worcester (Massachusetts). This museum with a teaching long tradition that Taylor perpetuates. He also seeks to fill the lacks within the permanent collection of the museum. He off makes in particular the acquisition of Discovery Honey of Piero di Cosimo and Rest one the Flight into Egypt of Quentin Massy. Among his other innovations with Worcester, one will mention the installation of books in the galleries of exposure and the creation of rooms of readings in each department of the museum. Taylor is a visionary, he is one of the first to organize temporary exhibitions in the world of art in order to encourage new visitors to attend the museum.

In 1939, it succeeds the famous Egyptologist, Herbert Eustis Winlock, with the direction of the Metropolitan Museum off Art (Met) of New York. Taylor misses the occasion to off integrate the Whitney Museum American Art and the Museum off Modern Art into the structure of Metropolitan (partly because of its bad opinion with respect to the modern art). It often made to reference to the Museum off Modern Art as “a that whorehouse one Fifty-third Street ” (This Lupanar on the 53e Rue).

Poor fund raiser, it is jealous of the conservative James Rorimer and his relations with the principal giver of the museum John D. Rockefeller. It disparages the concepts of popular esthetics of the museum, which it summarizes in its work of 1945 Babel' S Tower . It largely contributed to the enlarging of the department education of the Met. He resigns in 1954 to turn over to the direction of Worcester Museum. He dies in 54 years after an surgical operation of the Rein.

Works

• Babel' S Tower: The Dilemma off the Modern Museum ; New York, Columbia university close 1945.
• The Taste off Angels: In History off Art Collecting from Rameses to Napoleon ; Boston, Little, Brown, 1948.
• Fifty Centuries off Art ; New York, Published for the Metropolitan Museum off Art by Harper 1954.
• the tower of Babel: or the dilemma of the modern museum ; International Council off Natural history musea 1956.
• Pierpont Morgan ace Collector and Owner, 1837-1913 ; New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1957.

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