Benjamin Ives Gilman

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Benjamin Ives Gilman (18521933) 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)

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