Letters received, 1922-1949.

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Letters received, 1922-1949.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8586125

The collection consists of l6 letters from Henry Bergen, American collector and expert on Japanese art who served as patron and friend to the British potter Bernard Leach, to Elisabeth Adams Wakefield, a Bostonian who shared Bergen's enthusiasm for oriental decorative arts. The letters contain many references to the work of Bernard Leach in England and Japan, the affairs of Leach's St. Ives Pottery, Japanese master potters and exhibitions of oriental ceramics in the U.S. and Europe. Some reference is made to social events in Boston and London. Four letters from Leach concern Henry Bergen's final illness. There is one letter from Kojiro Tomita of the M.F.A. in Boston. Included in the collection are a group of photographs of Japanese interiors and street scenes, and obituaries of Henry D. Sleeper.

1 box : photos.

Boston Athenaeum

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Wakefield, Elisabeth Adams.

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Tomita, Kojiro, 1890-1976

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Sleeper, Henry Davis, 1878-1934

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Leach, Bernard, 1887-1979

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Bernard Leach was born in 1887 in Hong Kong and lived in the Far East until the age of ten, when he came to England as a pupil of Beaumont Jesuit College, Windsor. At the age of 16, in 1903, he went to the Slade, as their youngest student, to study drawing under Professor Henry Tonks. After a year's stint as a bank clerk he left the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in 1907 to learn etching under Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art and in 1909 went to work in Japan as an etcher. ...

Bergen, Henry, 1873-

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