James Cahill Papers

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James Cahill Papers

1945-1996

https://sova.si.edu/record/FSA.A2001.11

Papers created by Asian art historian, curator, and collector Dr. James Francis Cahill. Includes personal and professional correspondence and project files documenting his many publications, lectures and activities in the Asian art field. Documents span his early career at the Freer Gallery of Art, where he served as curator of Chinese art from 1957-1965, and his tenure 1965-1994 as Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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