The Metropolitan Museum of Art would not be what it is today if it wasn't for Thomas Hoving. The son of Walter Hoving, director of Tiffany & Co., and Mary O. Field, his step mother Jane Pickford Hoving later was the Republican challenger against Ed Koch for the US Senate from New York. He recounts his fabulous tales as director of the Met Museum in his memoir 'Making The Mummies Dance: Inside The Metropolitan Museum of Art'
Hoving With His Latest Acquisition
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The St. Martin's Press will publish THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE MUMMIES:THEODORE DAVIS'S GILDED AGE IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS by John M. Adams on June 25, 2013. Davis was a self-educated robber baron, part of the Tweed ring, and builder of an early mansion in Newport (where he lived with his wife and his mistress). From 1902 to 1914 he led excavations in Egypt, discovered an all-time record 18 tombs in the Valley of the Kings, and became an international celebrity. His personal collection of Egyptian artifacts (and old master paintings)were all left to the Metropolitan Museum.
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