ARCE was founded in 1948 in Boston by Edward W. Forbes, then the director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and Sterling Dow, then president of the Archaeological Institute of America, with the intention of creating a research center in Egypt on the model of similar institutions in Greece and Rome.
Early influences were the wildlands of New England, and Asian art viewed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University's Fogg Museum.
British Museum | Museum of Modern Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | American Museum of Natural History | Victoria and Albert Museum | Natural History Museum | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | museum | Whitney Museum of American Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | National Air and Space Museum | Brooklyn Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | Hermitage Museum | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame | Museum of Contemporary Art | Field Museum of Natural History | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Imperial War Museum | Smithsonian American Art Museum | National Museum | National Museum of Natural History | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Denver Art Museum | Cleveland Museum of Art | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | National Maritime Museum |
His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Jewish Museum in New York, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.