This support could come in many guises: during the early period, faculty positions later, fellowships, research appointments, project grants, and scholarly events.Įxplore the full list of titles selected by fellows and staff members To celebrate Dumbarton Oaks’ seventy-fifth anniversary as a research institute, then, the three directors of study, with the input of former fellows and staff members, compiled lists of influential books and articles produced with institutional support. Dumbarton Oaks could become such a place.” Robert Woods Bliss, “Address by Robert Woods Bliss, November 2, 1940,” The Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art 9, no. Robert Woods Bliss acknowledged the institution’s potential in his address on November 2, 1940: “There was need in this country, we thought, of a quiet place where advanced students and scholars could withdraw, the one to mellow and develop, the other to write the result of a life’s study. Of enduring importance, however, has been Dumbarton Oaks’ support for scholars to research, to write, to catalogue, to excavate in short, to produce great works. Over seventy-five years, Dumbarton Oaks has been open to the public for lectures and concerts, innovative museum exhibitions, and splendid gardens.
Maguire, in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 57 (2003): xi.
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“Kitzinger acknowledged,” Henry Maguire wrote in his obituary for the Byzantinist who was associated with Dumbarton Oaks for over two decades, that his “fundamental” 1954 article, “The Cult of Images in the Age before Iconoclasm,” “owed much to the intellectual atmosphere of Dumbarton Oaks in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with its free exchange of ideas between resident philologists, historians, and art historians.” H. Dumbarton Oaks could become such a place. There was need in this country, we thought, of a quiet place where advanced students and scholars could withdraw, the one to mellow and develop, the other to write the result of a life’s study.
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