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Paul Joseph Sachs (November 24, 1878 – February 18, 1965) was an American investor, businessman and museum director. Sachs served as associate director of the Fogg Art Museum and as a partner in the financial firm Goldman Sachs.
Paul Joseph Sachs (November 24, 1878 – February 17, 1965) served as Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard between 1927 to 1948, and as Associate Director of the Fogg Art Museum between 1909 and 1945.
Paul J. Sachs was an influential museum administrator and businessman best known as director at Harvard University’s Fogg Museum from 1915 to 1945 and a professor whose object-based teaching profoundly influenced curatorial practices and museum studies in the United States.
Overview. Harvard associate director of the Fogg Art Museum; developer of one of the early museum studies courses in the United States. Sachs was the eldest son of Samuel Sachs and Louisa Goldman Sachs, the father a partner of the investment firm Goldman Sachs.
Collector, connoisseur, hands-on teacher, Paul J. Sachs blended appreciation for art objects with the practicalities of museumship. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
Overview. Harvard associate director of the Fogg Art Museum; developer of one of the early museum studies courses in the United States. Sachs was the eldest son of Samuel Sachs (1951-1935) and Louisa Goldman, the youngest daughter of Marcus Goldman, a partner of the investment firm Goldman Sachs.
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Sachs, one of the founding members of The Museum of Modern Art, served as Trustee from October 3, 1929 through November 10, 1938. When asked to recommend a Director for the new Museum, he suggested Alfred H. Barr, Jr., a young student of his from Harvard.
