The Boston Traveler, Boston, Massachusetts, Tuesday, June 29, 1954, Page 1
Hub Museum Head Dead
Newport, N.H.; George Harold Edgell, 67, director of the Boston Museum of Fine arts since 1935 and a former dean of Harvard University’s faculty of architecture, died today at his summer home after a brief illness.
His wife was killed here a year ago. She was thrown from a horse.
Dr. Edgell, one of the world’s experts on Sienese paintings and a distinguished architectural historian, received in 1913 the first Ph.D. in fine arts ever given by Harvard University.
He was a member of the Harvard College class of 1909. In 1948 Harvard awarded him an honorary doctor of arts degree.
He was born in St. Louis, March 4, 1887, son of George Stephen Edgell and Isabella Wallace Corbin Edgell.
Two sons and three grandchildren survive.
Services will be in Newport at 2 p.m. Friday.
Hub Museum Head Dead
Newport, N.H.; George Harold Edgell, 67, director of the Boston Museum of Fine arts since 1935 and a former dean of Harvard University’s faculty of architecture, died today at his summer home after a brief illness.
His wife was killed here a year ago. She was thrown from a horse.
Dr. Edgell, one of the world’s experts on Sienese paintings and a distinguished architectural historian, received in 1913 the first Ph.D. in fine arts ever given by Harvard University.
He was a member of the Harvard College class of 1909. In 1948 Harvard awarded him an honorary doctor of arts degree.
He was born in St. Louis, March 4, 1887, son of George Stephen Edgell and Isabella Wallace Corbin Edgell.
Two sons and three grandchildren survive.
Services will be in Newport at 2 p.m. Friday.
The Boston Traveler, Boston, Massachusetts, Tuesday, June 29, 1954, Page 1
Hub Museum Head Dead
Newport, N.H.; George Harold Edgell, 67, director of the Boston Museum of Fine arts since 1935 and a former dean of Harvard University’s faculty of architecture, died today at his summer home after a brief illness.
His wife was killed here a year ago. She was thrown from a horse.
Dr. Edgell, one of the world’s experts on Sienese paintings and a distinguished architectural historian, received in 1913 the first Ph.D. in fine arts ever given by Harvard University.
He was a member of the Harvard College class of 1909. In 1948 Harvard awarded him an honorary doctor of arts degree.
He was born in St. Louis, March 4, 1887, son of George Stephen Edgell and Isabella Wallace Corbin Edgell.
Two sons and three grandchildren survive.
Services will be in Newport at 2 p.m. Friday.
Hub Museum Head Dead
Newport, N.H.; George Harold Edgell, 67, director of the Boston Museum of Fine arts since 1935 and a former dean of Harvard University’s faculty of architecture, died today at his summer home after a brief illness.
His wife was killed here a year ago. She was thrown from a horse.
Dr. Edgell, one of the world’s experts on Sienese paintings and a distinguished architectural historian, received in 1913 the first Ph.D. in fine arts ever given by Harvard University.
He was a member of the Harvard College class of 1909. In 1948 Harvard awarded him an honorary doctor of arts degree.
He was born in St. Louis, March 4, 1887, son of George Stephen Edgell and Isabella Wallace Corbin Edgell.
Two sons and three grandchildren survive.
Services will be in Newport at 2 p.m. Friday.
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