[Gertrude Bass Warner collection of Asian art]. [between 1850 and 1969]

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[Gertrude Bass Warner collection of Asian art]. [between 1850 and 1969]

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Collection of materials to support Asian art collections of the University of Oregon Art Museum. Includes published books as well as sketchbooks, photographs, lantern slides, and art objects.

ca. 500 items : ill.

University of Oregon Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7597664

University of Oregon Libraries

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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...

University of Oregon. Museum of Art

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The University of Oregon’s art museum opened its doors to the public on June 10, 1933. Designed by Ellis F. Lawrence, the UO dean of the School of Architecture & Allied Arts (1914-1946), the museum was built to house the Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art. The collection consisted of more than 3,000 objects given to the University by Gertrude Bass Warner in 1921 as a memorial to her late husband. With its elegant exterior brickwork, decorative moldings and iron...