Modern Prints and Drawings By Paul Joseph Sachs (1878-1965)

Paul Joseph Sachs (November 24, 1878 – February 18, 1965) was an Americanbusinessman and museum director. Sachs served as associate director of the Fogg Art Museum and as a partner in the financial firm Goldman Sachs. He is recognized for having developed of one of the earliest museum studies courses in the United States.

One course was commonly called "the Print Course," which featured a seminar-style analysis of prints and drawings drawn largely from Sach's own personal collection. From 1935 onward, he served regularly as chair of the Fine Arts department.

Paul J. Sachs Papers in The Museum of Modern Art Archives
www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/Sachsf



Sachs later became an Honorary Trustee and the Paul J. Sachs Galleries for Drawings andPrints was named in his honor in 1964. Sachs was an avid collector  ...

Modern Prints and Drawings: A Guide to a Better Understanding…

• Hardcover: 261 pages
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Bk Club ed edition (1954)
• Language: English

Paul J. Sachs 原著.《近代素描與版畫》(Modern Prints and Drawings. 1954) 杜若洲 譯. 台北：雄獅圖書 ， 1974年岀版. 
What make Modern Prints and Drawings valuable is not so much the admirable youthful mindedness of the author, as is his capacity to bring bear upon the drawings and prints of our own time his immense, cumulative, first-hand experience as a passionate knower and lover of the art of the past.