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'''Thomas P.F. Hoving''' (born [[January 15]], [[1931]]), is an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]. |
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| name = Thomas Hoving |
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| office = [[List of Directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art|Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |
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| term_start = 1967 |
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| term_end = 1977 |
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| predecessor = [[James J. Rorimer]] |
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| successor = [[Philippe de Montebello]] |
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| office1 = [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|Parks Commissioner of New York City]] |
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| term_start1 = 1966 |
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| term_end1 = 1967 |
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| appointed1 = [[John V. Lindsay]] |
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| predecessor1 = [[Newbold Morris]] |
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| successor1 = [[August Heckscher II]] |
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| birth_name = Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving |
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|01|15}} |
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| birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|12|10|1931|01|15}} |
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| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| education = [[Buckley School (New York City)|Buckley School]]<br>[[Eaglebrook School]]<br>[[Phillips Exeter Academy]]<br>[[Hotchkiss School]] |
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| alma_mater = [[Princeton University]] |
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| spouse = {{marriage|Nancy Bell<br>|1953}} |
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| children = Petrea Hoving |
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| parents = [[Walter Hoving]]<br>Mary Osgood Field |
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'''Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving''' (January 15, 1931 – December 10, 2009) was an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<ref name="tomhoving!">{{cite news |first=Randy |last=Kennedy |title=Thomas Hoving, Who Shook Up the Met, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/arts/design/11hoving.html?ref=obituaries |quote=Thomas Hoving, the charismatic showman and treasure hunter whose tenure as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977 fundamentally transformed the institution and helped usher in the era of the museum blockbuster show, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 78. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 11, 2009 |access-date=September 17, 2010 }}</ref> |
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He was born in [[New York City]] to Walter and Mary (Osgood Field) Hoving. He received a B.A. in [[1953]], a M.F.A. in [[1958]], and a Ph.D. in [[1959]], all from [[Princeton University]]. He went to work for the Met in [[1959]], serving on the staff of the medieval department at [[The Cloisters]] until [[1965]], when he became curator of the department. He left the Met in [[1966]] to become New York Mayor [[John V. Lindsay]]'s parks commissioner, but in [[1967]] returned to the Met as director after the incumbent, [[James J. Rorimer]], dropped dead on [[March 11]], [[1966]]. He assumed the directorship on [[March 17]], [[1967]] and presided over a massive expansion and renovation of the museum, successfully adding many important collections to its holdings. He left the Met on [[June 30]],[[1977]] to start an independent consulting firm for museums, Hoving Associates. From [[1978]] to [[1984]] he was an arts correspondent for the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[newsmagazine]] [[20/20]]. He edited Conoisseur Magazine from [[1981]] to [[1991]] and is the author of several books, including ''Making the Mummies Dance'' (an account of his directorship at the Met) and ''Art for Dummies''. He also wrote books on [[Andrew Wyeth]], [[Tutankhamen]], and art forgeries. |
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==Early life== |
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He was born in [[New York City]] to [[Walter Hoving]], the head of [[Tiffany & Company]], and his wife, Mary Osgood Field, a descendant of [[Samuel Osgood]].<ref>{{cite book |last=McPhee |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8C0OoG5e12AC&pg=PT131 |title=The John McPhee Reader |publisher=Macmillan |year=2011 |page=131 |access-date=July 12, 2016 |via=Google Books |isbn=9780374708580}}</ref> Hoving grew up surrounded by New York's upper social strata. As recounted in his memoir, ''Making the Mummies Dance'', these early experiences would be invaluable in his later dealings with the Met's donors and trustees. |
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After schooling at Manhattan's [[Buckley School (New York City)|Buckley School]], [[Eaglebrook School]] in Massachusetts and a brief stint at [[Phillips Exeter Academy|Exeter]], Hoving graduated from the [[Hotchkiss School]] in 1949.<ref name="tomhoving!"/> He received a B.A. in 1953, an M.F.A. in 1958, and a Ph.D. in 1959, all from [[Princeton University]]. |
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==Career== |
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As an undergraduate he majored in art and archaeology and supplemented his studies with regular trips to New York City to draw at the [[Art Students League of New York|Art Students League]].<ref>{{cite book |last=McPhee |first=John |date=May 1, 1979 |title=A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles |publisher=Macmillan|isbn=0374708665 }}</ref> He went to work for the Met in 1959, serving on the staff of the medieval department at [[The Cloisters]] until 1965, when he became curator of the department.<ref name="1965Appointment">{{cite news|title=New City Parks Chief; Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/12/02/archives/new-city-parks-chief-thomas-pearsall-field-hoving.html|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 2, 1965}}</ref> |
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He left the Met in 1966 to become New York mayor [[John V. Lindsay]]'s parks commissioner, but in 1967 returned to the Met as director after the incumbent, [[James J. Rorimer]], died suddenly on May 11, 1966.<ref name="1967Succession">{{cite news|title=Hoving Bowing Out as City's Parks Chief Today; His Exuberance Left a Mark, but Serious Problems Remain for Successor Heckscher to Succeed Hoving As Chief of City Parks Today|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/16/archives/hoving-bowing-out-as-citys-parks-chief-today-his-exuberance-left-a.html|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 16, 1967}}</ref> He assumed the directorship on March 17, 1967, and presided over a massive expansion and renovation of the museum, adding many important collections to its holdings.<ref name="tomhoving!"/> |
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===Career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art=== |
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[[File:Tutanchamun Maske.jpg|thumb|left|The Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition, which travelled for nearly a decade through North America and Europe, was an important cultural event.]] [[File:WLA metmuseum 12th century cross.jpg|right|thumb|Hoving wrote about his 1960s acquisition for the Met of the controversial [[Cloisters Cross]] in a book called ''King of the Confessors''.]]His tenure at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] was characterized by his distinctive approach to expanding the Met's collections. Rather than build more comprehensive holdings of relatively modest works, he pursued a smaller number of what he termed "world-class" pieces, including the [[Euphronios Krater]] depicting the death of [[Sarpedon (Trojan War hero)|Sarpedon]] (returned to Italy in 2008), [[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez's]] ''[[Portrait of Juan de Pareja]]'', and the [[Temple of Dendur]].<ref name=mummies>{{cite book |first=Thomas |last=Hoving |title=Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1993 |isbn=9780671880750}}</ref> |
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The expansion of the Met during Hoving's directorship was not confined to its collections. Hoving also spearheaded a number of building projects and renovations of the Met itself, from a controversial expansion of its galleries into Central Park to the construction of its underground parking garage.<ref name=mummies/> |
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Two of the building's most characteristic features—the huge exterior banners announcing current shows, and the broad plaza and steps leading from Fifth Avenue to the Met's entryway—are products of Hoving's tenure. At one point, he even floated a plan to remove the Met's "great staircase" leading from the central lobby to the second-floor galleries. That particular project remains unrealized.<ref name=mummies/>{{rp|156–163}} |
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Hoving described the negotiations between the Metropolitan Museum, the [[Cairo Museum]], [[Supreme Council of Antiquities|Egypt's Organization of Antiquities]], and the [[U.S. State Department]] to bring the exhibition [[Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun|''The Treasures of Tutankhamun'']] to the Met as "the high point of my Metropolitan career."<ref name=mummies/> The exhibition was the result of years of negotiations, including plans for a variety of cross-cultural collaborations, galvanized by President [[Richard M. Nixon]]'s June 1974 trip to [[Egypt]] and finalized in an accord signed by Secretary of State [[Henry A. Kissinger]] and Foreign Minister [[Ismail Fahmi]] in October 1975. In July 1976, Hoving visited Egypt to negotiate terms of the traveling exhibition and finalize details of the Museum's collaboration with officials there.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hartmann |first=Celia |date=July 3, 2013 |url=http://libmma.org/digital_files/archives/MacManus_Tutankhamun_records_b18131165.pdf |title=Finding aid for the Irving MacManus records related to "Treasures of Tutankhamun" exhibition, 1975–1979 |website=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |access-date=June 24, 2023}}</ref> |
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Hoving was the director of the controversial "[[Harlem on My Mind protest|Harlem On My Mind]]" exhibit, curated by [[Allon Schoener]], which garnered significant protests from local activists and artists for its exclusion of black artists, as well as for the inclusion of an anti-Semitic essay in the catalogue. Hoving apologized and included disclaimers before the essay in the catalogue, but did not remove it.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Hoving Accepts Onus for Furor|last=Arnold|first=Martin|date=January 22, 1969|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/01/22/archives/hoving-accepts-onus-for-furor-apologizes-for-catalogue-on-harlem.html|access-date=June 24, 2023}}</ref> |
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In his memoirs he revealed 2009 that [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s masterpiece [[Mona Lisa]] was sprinkled for several hours inside the Metropolitan Museum.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-diary-mona-lisa-stewart-copeland-bright-star-looking-for-eric-twins-at-the-tate-modern-1684898.html | title=The Diary: Mona Lisa; Stewart Copeland; Bright Star; Looking for Eric | website=[[The Independent]] | date=May 14, 2009 }}</ref> |
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===Later career=== |
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He left the Met on June 30, 1977, to start an independent consulting firm for museums, Hoving Associates. From 1978 to 1984 he was an arts correspondent for the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[newsmagazine]] ''[[20/20 (US television series)|20/20]]''.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/hoving/artful-tom-chapter-twenty-nine6-10-09.asp |last=Hoving |first=Thomas |title=Artful Tom, A Memoir |chapter=Chapter 29: 20/20 |publisher=Artnet Magazine |date=June 10, 2009 |access-date=June 24, 2023}}</ref> His debut in its second-ever installment on June 13, 1978 was a feature about the making of ''[[Jaws 2]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/13/archives/new-jersey-pages-downs-named-2020-host.html |last=Brown |first=Les |title=Downs Named ''20/20'' Host |work=The New York Times |date=June 13, 1978 |access-date=May 27, 2023}}</ref> In 1978, he published ''Tutankhamun. The Untold Story'', a non-fiction book about the discovery of the Egyptian tomb, with particular attention to its discoverer, Howard Carter. He edited ''Connoisseur Magazine'' from 1981 to 1991; along with his memoirs of his time at the Met, he is also the author of books on a number of art-related subjects, including [[art forgery|art forgeries]], [[Grant Wood]], [[Andrew Wyeth]], [[Tutankhamen]], and the 12th-century walrus ivory crucifix known as the [[Bury St. Edmunds Cross]]. Additionally, in 1999, he wrote the text for the ''Art For Dummies'' book in the "[[...For Dummies]]" series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/hoving/hoving7-20-99.asp |last=Hoving |first=Thomas |title=My Eye |website=Artnet Magazine |date=July 20, 1999 |access-date=June 24, 2023}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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In 1953, Hoving was married to Nancy Bell, a [[Vassar College]] graduate whom he met at a house party in Princeton.<ref name="1953Wedding">{{cite news|title=MISS NANCY BELL BRIDE IN PAWLING; Dewey Attends Her Wedding to Lieut. Thomas P. Hoving, Son of Bonwit Teller Head|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/10/04/archives/miss-nancybell-bride-in-pajlin6l-dewey-attends-her-weddingi-to.html|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 4, 1953}}</ref> She was the daughter of [[Elliott V. Bell]] (1902–1983), a writer for ''[[The New York Times]]'' who managed the two successful gubernatorial campaigns for his friend, [[Thomas E. Dewey]].<ref name="1953Wedding"/> They had a daughter.<ref name="tomhoving!"/> |
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Hoving died of [[lung cancer]] at his home in [[Manhattan]], New York City, on December 10, 2009.<ref name="tomhoving!"/> |
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==In popular culture== |
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Hoving appeared in ''[[Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?]]'', a 2006 documentary by Harry Moses about a supposed "lost" [[Jackson Pollock]] painting, where he dismissed the claims, believing that true connoisseurs are the only ones who can identify the real from fake paintings and that fingerprints and forensic evidence are secondary. The clincher, he stated, was that the 'Pollock' painting had a gesso ground, something that Pollock never used. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/arts/design/09poll.html |last=Kennedy|first=Randy |title=Could Be a Pollock; Must Be a Yarn |work=The New York Times |date=November 9, 2006 |access-date=June 24, 2023}}</ref> |
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He was the subject of the titular profile in ''A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles'', a 1969 collection of biographical pieces by [[John McPhee]]. |
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==Works== |
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* {{cite book |last= Hoving |first= Thomas |title= Master Pieces: The Curator's Game |year= 2005 |publisher= [[W. W. Norton Company]] |isbn=9780393328387 }} |
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* {{cite book |last= Hoving |first= Thomas |title= Art for Dummies |year= 1999 |publisher= [[International Data Group|IDG Books Worldwide]] |isbn=978-0764551048 }} |
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* {{cite book |last= Hoving |first= Thomas |title= False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes |year= 1997 |publisher= [[Simon & Schuster]] |location= New York |isbn= 0-684-81134-0 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/falseimpressions00hovi }} |
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* {{cite book |last= Hoving |first= Thomas |title= Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art |url= https://archive.org/details/makingmummiesdan00thom |url-access= registration |year= 1993 |publisher= [[Simon & Schuster]] |location= New York |isbn= 978-0-671-88075-0 }} |
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* Hoving, Thomas. ''King of the Confessors: A New Appraisal.'' cybereditions.com: Christchurch, NZ, 2001. |
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* Hoving, Thomas. ''King of the Confessors.'' Simon & Schuster: New York, 1981. |
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* Hoving, Thomas. ''Tutankhamun. The Untold Story.'' Simon & Schuster: New York, 1978. |
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* [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/authors/artfultom.asp Artful Tom, A memoir // Artnet] |
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==Bibliography== |
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* {{cite book |last= Watson |first= Peter |title= The Medici Conspiracy |year= 2007 |publisher= Public Affairs |location= New York |isbn=978-1-58648-438-5 }} |
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* "Outdoorsman of the Big City", ''Life'', April 29, 1966. |
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* {{cite book |last= McPhee |first= John |author-link= John McPhee |title= A Roomful of Hovings |url= https://archive.org/details/roomfulofhovings00mcph |url-access= registration |year= 1969 |publisher= [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] |location= New York |isbn= 9780374515010 }} |
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==References== |
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*Thomas Hoving. '' Making the Mummies Dance''. New York: Simon and Schuster, [[1993]]. |
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*[[John A. McPhee]]. '' A Roomful of Hovings''. New York: Farar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969. |
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==External links== |
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* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/6790157/Tom-Hoving.html "Tom Hoving" (obituary), ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London, UK), Friday 11 December 2009.] |
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* [http://libmma.org/digital_files/archives/Thomas_Hoving_records_b18583829 Thomas Hoving records] at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives. |
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Thomas Hoving | |
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Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
In office 1967–1977 | |
Preceded by | James J. Rorimer |
Succeeded by | Philippe de Montebello |
Parks Commissioner of New York City | |
In office 1966–1967 | |
Appointed by | John V. Lindsay |
Preceded by | Newbold Morris |
Succeeded by | August Heckscher II |
Personal details | |
Born | Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving January 15, 1931 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | December 10, 2009 New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged 78)
Spouse |
Nancy Bell
(m. 1953) |
Children | Petrea Hoving |
Parent(s) | Walter Hoving Mary Osgood Field |
Education | Buckley School Eaglebrook School Phillips Exeter Academy Hotchkiss School |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving (January 15, 1931 – December 10, 2009) was an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]
Early life
[edit]He was born in New York City to Walter Hoving, the head of Tiffany & Company, and his wife, Mary Osgood Field, a descendant of Samuel Osgood.[2] Hoving grew up surrounded by New York's upper social strata. As recounted in his memoir, Making the Mummies Dance, these early experiences would be invaluable in his later dealings with the Met's donors and trustees.
After schooling at Manhattan's Buckley School, Eaglebrook School in Massachusetts and a brief stint at Exeter, Hoving graduated from the Hotchkiss School in 1949.[1] He received a B.A. in 1953, an M.F.A. in 1958, and a Ph.D. in 1959, all from Princeton University.
Career
[edit]As an undergraduate he majored in art and archaeology and supplemented his studies with regular trips to New York City to draw at the Art Students League.[3] He went to work for the Met in 1959, serving on the staff of the medieval department at The Cloisters until 1965, when he became curator of the department.[4]
He left the Met in 1966 to become New York mayor John V. Lindsay's parks commissioner, but in 1967 returned to the Met as director after the incumbent, James J. Rorimer, died suddenly on May 11, 1966.[5] He assumed the directorship on March 17, 1967, and presided over a massive expansion and renovation of the museum, adding many important collections to its holdings.[1]
Career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
[edit]His tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was characterized by his distinctive approach to expanding the Met's collections. Rather than build more comprehensive holdings of relatively modest works, he pursued a smaller number of what he termed "world-class" pieces, including the Euphronios Krater depicting the death of Sarpedon (returned to Italy in 2008), Velázquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja, and the Temple of Dendur.[6]
The expansion of the Met during Hoving's directorship was not confined to its collections. Hoving also spearheaded a number of building projects and renovations of the Met itself, from a controversial expansion of its galleries into Central Park to the construction of its underground parking garage.[6]
Two of the building's most characteristic features—the huge exterior banners announcing current shows, and the broad plaza and steps leading from Fifth Avenue to the Met's entryway—are products of Hoving's tenure. At one point, he even floated a plan to remove the Met's "great staircase" leading from the central lobby to the second-floor galleries. That particular project remains unrealized.[6]: 156–163
Hoving described the negotiations between the Metropolitan Museum, the Cairo Museum, Egypt's Organization of Antiquities, and the U.S. State Department to bring the exhibition The Treasures of Tutankhamun to the Met as "the high point of my Metropolitan career."[6] The exhibition was the result of years of negotiations, including plans for a variety of cross-cultural collaborations, galvanized by President Richard M. Nixon's June 1974 trip to Egypt and finalized in an accord signed by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi in October 1975. In July 1976, Hoving visited Egypt to negotiate terms of the traveling exhibition and finalize details of the Museum's collaboration with officials there.[7]
Hoving was the director of the controversial "Harlem On My Mind" exhibit, curated by Allon Schoener, which garnered significant protests from local activists and artists for its exclusion of black artists, as well as for the inclusion of an anti-Semitic essay in the catalogue. Hoving apologized and included disclaimers before the essay in the catalogue, but did not remove it.[8]
In his memoirs he revealed 2009 that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa was sprinkled for several hours inside the Metropolitan Museum.[9]
Later career
[edit]He left the Met on June 30, 1977, to start an independent consulting firm for museums, Hoving Associates. From 1978 to 1984 he was an arts correspondent for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20.[10] His debut in its second-ever installment on June 13, 1978 was a feature about the making of Jaws 2.[11] In 1978, he published Tutankhamun. The Untold Story, a non-fiction book about the discovery of the Egyptian tomb, with particular attention to its discoverer, Howard Carter. He edited Connoisseur Magazine from 1981 to 1991; along with his memoirs of his time at the Met, he is also the author of books on a number of art-related subjects, including art forgeries, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, Tutankhamen, and the 12th-century walrus ivory crucifix known as the Bury St. Edmunds Cross. Additionally, in 1999, he wrote the text for the Art For Dummies book in the "...For Dummies" series.[12]
Personal life
[edit]In 1953, Hoving was married to Nancy Bell, a Vassar College graduate whom he met at a house party in Princeton.[13] She was the daughter of Elliott V. Bell (1902–1983), a writer for The New York Times who managed the two successful gubernatorial campaigns for his friend, Thomas E. Dewey.[13] They had a daughter.[1]
Hoving died of lung cancer at his home in Manhattan, New York City, on December 10, 2009.[1]
In popular culture
[edit]Hoving appeared in Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, a 2006 documentary by Harry Moses about a supposed "lost" Jackson Pollock painting, where he dismissed the claims, believing that true connoisseurs are the only ones who can identify the real from fake paintings and that fingerprints and forensic evidence are secondary. The clincher, he stated, was that the 'Pollock' painting had a gesso ground, something that Pollock never used. [14]
He was the subject of the titular profile in A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles, a 1969 collection of biographical pieces by John McPhee.
Works
[edit]- Hoving, Thomas (2005). Master Pieces: The Curator's Game. W. W. Norton Company. ISBN 9780393328387.
- Hoving, Thomas (1999). Art for Dummies. IDG Books Worldwide. ISBN 978-0764551048.
- Hoving, Thomas (1997). False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-81134-0.
- Hoving, Thomas (1993). Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-88075-0.
- Hoving, Thomas. King of the Confessors: A New Appraisal. cybereditions.com: Christchurch, NZ, 2001.
- Hoving, Thomas. King of the Confessors. Simon & Schuster: New York, 1981.
- Hoving, Thomas. Tutankhamun. The Untold Story. Simon & Schuster: New York, 1978.
- Artful Tom, A memoir // Artnet
Bibliography
[edit]- Watson, Peter (2007). The Medici Conspiracy. New York: Public Affairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-438-5.
- "Outdoorsman of the Big City", Life, April 29, 1966.
- McPhee, John (1969). A Roomful of Hovings. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374515010.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Kennedy, Randy (December 11, 2009). "Thomas Hoving, Who Shook Up the Met, Dies at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
Thomas Hoving, the charismatic showman and treasure hunter whose tenure as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977 fundamentally transformed the institution and helped usher in the era of the museum blockbuster show, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 78.
- ^ McPhee, John (2011). The John McPhee Reader. Macmillan. p. 131. ISBN 9780374708580. Retrieved July 12, 2016 – via Google Books.
- ^ McPhee, John (May 1, 1979). A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles. Macmillan. ISBN 0374708665.
- ^ "New City Parks Chief; Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving". The New York Times. December 2, 1965. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
- ^ "Hoving Bowing Out as City's Parks Chief Today; His Exuberance Left a Mark, but Serious Problems Remain for Successor Heckscher to Succeed Hoving As Chief of City Parks Today". The New York Times. March 16, 1967. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
- ^ a b c d Hoving, Thomas (1993). Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780671880750.
- ^ Hartmann, Celia (July 3, 2013). "Finding aid for the Irving MacManus records related to "Treasures of Tutankhamun" exhibition, 1975–1979" (PDF). Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ Arnold, Martin (January 22, 1969). "Hoving Accepts Onus for Furor". The New York Times. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ "The Diary: Mona Lisa; Stewart Copeland; Bright Star; Looking for Eric". The Independent. May 14, 2009.
- ^ Hoving, Thomas (June 10, 2009). "Chapter 29: 20/20". Artful Tom, A Memoir. Artnet Magazine. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ Brown, Les (June 13, 1978). "Downs Named 20/20 Host". The New York Times. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
- ^ Hoving, Thomas (July 20, 1999). "My Eye". Artnet Magazine. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ^ a b "MISS NANCY BELL BRIDE IN PAWLING; Dewey Attends Her Wedding to Lieut. Thomas P. Hoving, Son of Bonwit Teller Head". The New York Times. October 4, 1953. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
- ^ Kennedy, Randy (November 9, 2006). "Could Be a Pollock; Must Be a Yarn". The New York Times. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
External links
[edit]- "Tom Hoving" (obituary), The Daily Telegraph (London, UK), Friday 11 December 2009.
- Thomas Hoving records at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives.