Gertrude Bass Warner papers 1909-1923

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Gertrude Bass Warner papers 1909-1923

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv26937

Collection consists primarily of travel diaries, notes, correspondence and ephemera related to research about shrines and religious ceremonies for several manuscripts that Gertrude Bass Warner (1863-1951) was working on. There is also correspondence about pieces of art that she and her husband were collecting to bring back to the United States for a museum exhibit. The bulk of the materials are about Japan during the time period of 1909-1923. Ms. Warner was the founder and director emeritus of the University of Oregon Fine Art Museum.

4.5 linear feet, 13 containers

eng,

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6368771

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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Warner, Murray, 1869-1920

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Warner, Gertrude Bass, 1863-1951

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Gertrude Bass Warner was a wealthy American woman who fell in love with Asia. She first traveled there in 1904, married an American engineer in Shanghai, and spent the rest of her life collecting, studying, and promoting Asian art and culture. She was instrumental in building Asian programs at the University of Oregon, in addition to founding the art museum to house the Murray Warner Collection of Asian Art. Mrs. Warner traveled extensively to build her collection, to study, to learn about museu...