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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.
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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. There could be no possible choice of college for him but Harvard.
…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). That same…
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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Paul Joseph Sachs was born in New York, New York in 1879 to Samuel Sachs and Louisa Goldman Sachs. Upon graduation from Harvard University in 1900, Sachs joined the family investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, becoming a partner in 1904, and retiring in 1914.
