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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 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.
Jeffrey David Sachs (/ s æ k s / SAKS; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst, professor at Columbia University, where he was former director of The Earth Institute. He is known for his work on sustainable development, economic development, and the fight to end poverty.
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
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.
…he studied art history with Paul J. Sachs, the associate director of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum who taught museum studies courses, the first of their kind in the United States. In the summer of 1930 Newhall earned a scholarship to return to Harvard for a master’s degree (1931).
