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Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving (January 15, 1931 – December 10, 2009) was an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ==Biography== He was born in New York City to Walter Hoving, the head of Tiffany & Company, and his wife, Mary Osgood Field. Thomas Hoving grew up surrounded by New York's upper social strata. As recounted in his memoir, ''Making the Mummies Dance'', these early experiences would be invaluable in his later dealings with the Met's donors and trustees. After a tumultuous adolescence including schooling at Manhattan's Buckley School, Eaglebrook School in Massachusetts and a brief stint at Exeter, Hoving graduated from the Hotchkiss School in 1949.〔 He received a B.A. in 1953, a M.F.A. in 1958, and a Ph.D. in 1959, all from Princeton University. As an undergraduate he majored in art and archaeology and supplemented his studies with regular trips to New York City to draw at the Art Students League. He went to work for the Met in 1959, serving on the staff of the medieval department at The Cloisters until 1965, when he became curator of the department. He left the Met in 1966 to become New York Mayor John V. Lindsay's parks commissioner, but in 1967 returned to the Met as director after the incumbent, James J. Rorimer, died suddenly on March 11, 1966. He assumed the directorship on March 17, 1967 and presided over a massive expansion and renovation of the museum, successfully adding many important collections to its holdings.〔 He left the Met on June 30, 1977 to start an independent consulting firm for museums, Hoving Associates. From 1978 to 1984 he was an arts correspondent for the ABC newsmagazine ''20/20''.〔(Hoving, Thomas. ''Artful Tom, A Memoir'' (Chapter 29). ''Artnet Magazine'', June 10, 2009. )〕 He edited ''Connoisseur Magazine'' from 1981 to 1991; along with his memoirs of his time at the Met, he is also the author of books on a number of art-related subjects, including art forgeries, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, Tutankhamen, and the 12th-century walrus ivory crucifix known as the Bury St. Edmunds Cross. Additionally, in 1999, he wrote the text for the ''Art For Dummies'' book in the "...For Dummies" series.〔(Hoving, Thomas. "My Eye," ''Artnet Magazine'', July 20, 1999. )〕 Hoving appeared in ''Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?'', a 2006 documentary by Harry Moses about a purported "lost" Jackson Pollock painting, in which he, through a series of memorable interviews, claimed that true painting connoisseurs are the only ones who can identify the real from the fake (fingerprints and forensic evidence are secondary).〔(Kennedy, Randy. "Could Be a Pollock; Must Be a Yarn," ''The New York Times'', Thursday, November 9, 2006. )〕 Hoving was the subject of the titular profile in ''A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles'', a 1969 collection of biographical pieces by John McPhee. Hoving died of lung cancer at his home in Manhattan, New York City on December 10, 2009.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Hoving」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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