Warner, Langdon, 1881-1955

Warner graduated from Harvard in 1903 and taught fine arts at Harvard.

These rubbings were presented to Harvard by scholars and collectors Langdon Warner, Lawrence Sickman, Hamilton Bell, Adrian Rübel, and others. Langdon Warner collected many rubbings in north and northwest China during two Fogg Museum-sponsored expeditions in 1923-1924 and 1925, and he donated others between the 1950s and the 1970s. Seals on some of the rubbings indicate various sources, including the collectors Ruan Yuan (1764-1849) and Duan Fang (1861-1911), and the Graduate School at Beijing University.

Langdon Warner was a graduate of the Harvard College Class of 1903, a Harvard historian of East Asian art, and curator at the Fogg Art Museum.

Langdon Warner, 1881-1955, scholar in Oriental art and archeologist, born Cambridge, Mass., Harvard AB, University of California, LLD. Assistant curator of Oriental art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1906-1913, director of Philadelphia Museum 1917-23, lecturer at Harvard, 1923-1950. Often away working in China.

William Orton Tewson, 1877-1947, born Penge, Surrey, England. Newspaper editor and literary editor New York Evening Post, 1924-26. Widely syndicated as author of "An Attic Salt Shaker," a weekly literary column.