(1931-01-15)January 15, 1931 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died
December 10, 2009(2009-12-10) (aged 78) New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse
Nancy Bell
(m. 1953)
Children
Petrea Hoving
Parent(s)
Walter Hoving Mary Osgood Field
Education
Buckley School Eaglebrook School Phillips Exeter Academy Hotchkiss School
Alma mater
Princeton University
Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving (January 15, 1931 – December 10, 2009) was an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]
^Kennedy, Randy (December 11, 2009). "Thomas Hoving, Who Shook Up the Met, Dies at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2010. Thomas Hoving, the charismatic showman and treasure hunter whose tenure as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977 fundamentally transformed the institution and helped usher in the era of the museum blockbuster show, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 78.
York City to Walter Hoving, the head of Tiffany & Company, and his wife, Mary Osgood Field, a descendant of Samuel Osgood. Hoving grew up surrounded by...
dancer and choreographer ThomasHoving (1931–2009), director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Son of Walter Hoving Walter Hoving (1897–1989), head of Tiffany...
1955 to 1980. Hoving was born in Stockholm on December 2, 1897. He was a son of Johannes Hoving, a surgeon, and Helga (née Rundberg) Hoving, an opera singer...
Cassavetes' 2012 movie, Yellow. 1996 - "False Impressions" by ThomasHovingHoving, Thomas: Making the Mummies Dance. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-73854-2...
historian, curator, photographer, and consultant. She worked under ThomasHoving at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then created her own studio, Roussel...
Press, 1950. Dictionary of Art Historians page on James J. Rorimer ThomasHoving. Making the Mummies Dance. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. PBS (WNET...
that the fibula had been stolen from Palestrina's Tomba Bernardini. ThomasHoving tells the story in a way that necessitates the item's falseness. His...
convicted of selling stolen art in 2005. Hecht denied the charges. ThomasHoving, director of the Met and the primary negotiator in the purchase, later...
May 26, 2010 Lamont, Lansing. "Tom Hoving and the Met Builds", People magazine, November 17, 1975. "Tom Hoving of the Met Builds, Buys and Makes Much...
Museum of Fine Arts Edward Robinson, Parks Commissioner of New York City ThomasHoving, and director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Max Hollein...
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XI)". Archived from the original on 2009-04-10. Retrieved 2018-02-07. ThomasHoving: Tutankhamun: The Untold Story. pp. 318–324. Zahi Hawass: King Tutankhamun...
were expelled from the country". This theme was developed in a book by ThomasHoving, the curator involved when the Metropolitan acquired the cross, and...
Lucas 1942, pp. 135–147. Hoving 1978, Chapter 9. That the group entered the burial chamber is supported by Lucas and Hoving, but dismissed by Carnarvon...
pp. 100–101. Hoving 1978, p. 311. Hoving 1978, pp. 311–312. Reid 2015, pp. 70–71. Thompson 2018, pp. 67–68. Hoving 1978, p. 306. Hoving 1978, p. 316....
widely publicised by the 1978 book Tutankhamun: The Untold Story by ThomasHoving, with el-Rassul's long-standing claim to have been the boy who was photographed...
may also be reluctant to admit their own fallibility. Art historian ThomasHoving estimates that various types of forged art comprise up to 40% of the...
2012-06-11. Metropolitan Museum of Art press release, September 1999 ThomasHoving. Making the Mummies Dance. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Media...
work may be a lost Pollock painting, but its authenticity is debated. ThomasHoving is shown in the documentary and states that the painting is on a primed...
Herbert Eustis Winlock Francis Henry Taylor James Rorimer ThomasHoving Philippe de Montebello Thomas P. Campbell Miscellaneous Met Gala Museum Mile Metropolitan...
the Metropolitan Museum of Art (bypassing the wishes of then director ThomasHoving). The collection's value skyrocketed as a result, and Funt sold them...
as King Faisal, the Shah Reza Pahlavi, Grace Kelly, George Livanos, ThomasHoving, Audrey Hepburn, Gunter Sachs and celebrated by design enthusiasts and...
hundredth anniversary. It was part of a suite of programming that Director ThomasHoving had launched to celebrate the landmark year. A press release in 1967...
the large Gallery. While performing graduate research on the Gallery, ThomasHoving, later director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pointed out many...
Mayor John Lindsay as Parks Commissioner of New York City, succeeding ThomasHoving, who left to become the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art....
A Source for the Style of the Bury Bible, GESTA, XX/1, 1981, JSTOR ThomasHoving, King of the Confessors: A New Appraisal. cybereditions.com. Christchurch...
designed to complete the Greek one in a setting in the gardens of Sallust. ThomasHoving, once director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recollects being told...
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