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7 unusual facts about Thomas Hoving


Connoisseur Magazine

The American edition of Connoisseur was published by Hearst Corporation through Condé Nast Publications, was edited from 1981 to 1991 by Thomas Hoving.

Euphronios krater

Thomas Hoving, director of the Met and the primary negotiator in the purchase, later said in his memoirs, Making the Mummies Dance, "An intact red-figured Greek vase of the early sixth century B.C. could only have been found in Etruscan territory in Italy, by illegal excavators".

Henry Stern

In 1966, Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving appointed him executive director of the agency.

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Thomas Hoving (1931–2009), director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ludovisi Throne

Thomas Hoving, once director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recollects being told by an art dealer in Italy that the twin throne in Boston was the work of the great faker Alcide Dossena.

Portrait of Juan de Pareja

This became a source of some controversy both for the museum and for its director, Thomas Hoving, who spearheaded the effort to acquire the work and considered it one of the finest paintings in the museum's collection.

Theodore Pitcairn

Thomas Hoving, former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, described meeting the Reverend Pitcairn in the course of negotiating the purchase of Garden at Sainte-Adresse by Claude Monet.



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