Benjamin Ives Gilman
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For the U.S. Representative (born 1922), see Benjamin A. Gilman.
Benjamin Ives Gilman (1852–1933) was the Secretary of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from 1893 to 1925. Formerly a banker with the family's banking house, Gilman returned to college, later becoming an instructor in psychology at Clark University, and then curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.[1]
He was the author of:
- Manual of Italian Renaissance Sculpture (1904)
- Hopi Songs (1908)
- Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method (1918)