Seventy-five blogs posts highlighting the history, people, buildings, gardens, and collections of Dumbarton Oaks. New posts will be added each week throughout the anniversary year.
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? (Part 2)
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? (Part 1)
David Stuart
“Good as Gold”: Kurt Weitzmann at Dumbarton Oaks
For All to See: The Interim Years of the Pre-Columbian Collection
The Friends of Music
Giles Constable, “Dumbarton Oaks and the Future of Byzantine Studies”
Paul Atkins Underwood: Building Knowledge
Then and Now: Accommodating the Fellows
Putting the Art in Artifact: The Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
“Report of the Committee on the Future of the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1970”
Sowing the First Seeds: The Origin of the Garden Library Rare Book Collection
The First Dumbarton Oaks Landscape Architecture Colloquium
Taxing Issues: Getting Tax Exemption for Dumbarton Oaks
Sirarpie Der Nersessian, First Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology
Milton V. Anastos, “Dumbarton Oaks and Byzantine Studies, a Personal Account”
Irfan Shahîd
Pool Party! Academics Go Aquatic
John Dixon Hunt
Preparing for the Transfer to Harvard
The Bliss Collection and the “Exotic Cultural Other”
The Dish on Dining: Bonding over Meals at the Fellows Building
Friend of Dumbarton Oaks
Archibald McLeish on Dumbarton Oaks, 1941
The First Members of the Administrative Committee
The Birthing Figure in the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
Kurt Weitzmann on the Beginning of Dumbarton Oaks
Albert Mathias Friend Jr. and a “Premier Byzantine Studies Center”
Then and Now: Libraries at Dumbarton Oaks
Commissioning and Performing Contemporary Compositions
Dumbarton Oaks’ mission to foster original research and publication in humanistic studies has found a parallel expression in the Friends of Music commissions and performances of contemporary music.