biography
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Taylor, Francis Henry
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| lived:
| (1903–57)
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| biography:
| Museum director, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1924 BA) and various other institutions. He was the assistant curator (1927–8) and then the curator of mediaeval art (1928–31) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and was appointed director of the Worcester Museum of Art (1931–40), which he turned into the best small city museum in America. As director of the Metropolitan Museum (1940–55), he undertook a series of international loans from European collections that were unsettled during World War 2. The museum's attendance soared and its membership almost tripled. He wrote The Taste of Angels (1948). |
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