Records, 1925-2003 (inclusive).

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Records, 1925-2003 (inclusive).

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The records of the Department of Asian Art document the administrative and curatorial activities of the department from when the collections were a part of the Department of Ethnology to its present separate curatorial designation. The collection contains materials that document the various stages and name changes of the department from Department of Eastern and Near Eastern Art to its present title, Department of Asian Art. This includes records reflecting the Islamic collection's separation from and reintegration into the Asian collections. The records document the history and development of the department and its collections. These records provide insight into the activities of various curators, relationship with donors and dealers, administrative functioning of the department, and the development of its object collections and exhibitions. A large portion of the records consist of correspondence and memos but also includes reports, notes, photographs, slides, transparencies, writings, clippings, and typescripts. Included, as well, are letters to and from donors, Museum staff, collectors, dealers, other institutions, scholars, and the general public. Subject matter of letters and memos include coordination of exhibitions and loans, gifts and purchases, research on objects, fundraising, professional activities, and departmental management. Of note are the records pertaining to the development of the department's collections. These materials often contain information on specific objects in the Asian art collection; on influential donors, including Ernest Erickson, Paul E. Manhiem, and Alastair B. Martin; and on various foundations and estates, including the Hagop Kevorkian Foundation and the Joseph V. McMullan estate.

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Brooklyn Museum. Department of Asian Art.

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In 1903, the Asian art collection officially became part of the Department of Ethnology when Chinese and Japanese objects were transferred from the Department of Fine Arts. The Department of Ethnology's first curator was Stewart Culin who acquired objects in quantity and with variety. Culin's early trips to India, China, Korea, and Japan from 1909 to 1914 established the core for what would later become the Department of Asian Art. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the Asi...

Kevorkian Foundation

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Adam, Tassilo

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Erickson, Ernest, 1893-1983

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Canby, Sheila R.

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MARTIN, ALASTAIR BRADLEY

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Kates, George N. (George Norbert), 1895-1990

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Art historian, curator of oriental art, author of CHINESE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE (1947), THE YEARS THAT WERE FAT (1952), and THE ART OF BEING OLD (1956). Lived in China, 1933-40, 1943-45. From the description of George N. Kates letters, 1946-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594244 ...

Sackler, Arthur M.

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Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Museum

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Roberts, Laurance P.

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Laurance Page Roberts was born in Bala Cynwyd, PA, 1 October 1907. His grandfather, George Brook Roberts (1833-1897) had been President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and his father, George Brinton Roberts, a coal magnate. Laurance Roberts attended the Montgomery School in Philadelphia and St George's School in Rhode Island before entering Princeton in 1925. He graduated from Princeton University in 1929 (magna cum laude), a classmate and friend of John D. Rockefeller III (1906-1978). After a year...

Brooklyn Museum of Art

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Lee, George J., 1919-

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Diba, Layla S.

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Brooklyn Museum

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The origins of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences extend back to 1823, with the founding of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library. The Library, located at the corner of Cranberry and Henry Streets in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, was established for the education and cultural enrichment of young tradesmen. In 1841, the Library relocated to the building of the Brooklyn Lyceum, an organization devoted to intellectual pursuits in the arts and sciences, at the corner of Washington and C...

Cooney, Andree.

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Manheim, Paul E.

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Czuma, Stanislaw J., 1935-

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Moes, Robert

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Poster, Amy G., 1946-....

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McMullan, Joseph V. (Joseph Vincent), 1896-1973

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Katz, Lois.

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