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Creator:

Vever, Henri 1854-1942

Subject:

Vever, Henri 1854-1942

Physical description:

2.5 lin. ft. (ca. 35 items)

Type:

Works of art

Collection descriptions

Diaries

Photographs

Place:

France, Ile-de-France, Paris

France

Paris

Le Havre (France)

Paris (France)

Date:

1875

1875-1932

Twentieth century

Nineteenth century

Topic:

Art--Collectors and collecting

Art dealers

Art nouveau

Art, Asian

Art, European

Art, Islamic

Jewelry--History

Local number:

A1988.4

Notes:

Jeweler, art collector, and author Henri Vever was born in Metz, France in 1854. Together with his older brother Paul, Henri Vever managed the family jewelry firm, Maison Vever, from 1881 until Paul's death in 1915 and Henri's retirement in 1921. As an art collector, Vever amassed a large collection of European, Asian, and Islamic art. Through his work as a jeweler, art collector, and author, Henri Vever played an important role in the twentieth-century art world

Summary:

The Henri Vever Papers measure 2.5 linear feet (35 items) and span the years 1875 -1932. The collection contains six diaries, an account ledger, 20 photographs, one guest list, one ceremonial pommel, and six original oil paintings by Henri Vever

Cite as:

Henri Vever Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of François Mautin, 1988

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_230302

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Creator:

March, Benjamin 1899-1934

Subject:

March, Benjamin 1899-1934

Rowe, Dorothy 1898-

Physical description:

11.75 linear feet

Type:

Lecture notes

Collection descriptions

Letters

Photographs

Scrapbooks

Place:

USA, Michigan, Detroit

China

Japan

Michigan

Date:

1923

1923-1934

Topic:

Architecture

Architecture, Japanese

Art, Asian

Art--Terminology

Art, Asian--Research

Art, Chinese

Art, Japanese

Art, Korean

Chinese language--Terms and phrases

Painting, Chinese

Painting, Japanese

Description and travel

Notes:

Far Eastern art writer, curator, and lecturer, Benjamin Franklin March Jr., was born in Chicago on July 4, 1899 to Benjamin and Isabel March. He studied, lectured, and wrote in the United States and China and through his works gained respect as one of the foremost authorities on Chinese art during the 1920s and 1930s. Although he lived only thirty-five years, Benjamin March was a respected and influential scholar of Asian art

Summary:

The Benjamin March Papers span the years 1923 to 1934 and measure 11.75 linear feet. The collection includes: biographical data included in passports, obituaries, and fifty-seven condolence letters; lecture and course outlines; research notes; four diaries; one scrapbook; four illustrations including sketches for the March bookplate; fourteen photograph albums; printed matter; and 100 personal and artistic photographs

Cite as:

Benjamin March Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Judith March Davis, 1995

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_230306

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst 1879-1948

Subject:

Herzfeld, Ernst 1879-1948

Anistās Mārī al-Karmilī, ab 1866-1947

Becker, Carl Heinrich 1876-1933

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian 1868-1926

Berchem, Max van 1863-1921

Krefter, Friedrich 1898-1995

Meyer, Eduard 1855-1930

Sarre, Friedrich Paul Theodor 1865-1945

Sobernheim, Moritz

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum

Verlag Philipp von Zabern

Physical description:

150 linear feet (ca. 30,000 items)

Type:

Articles

Collection descriptions

Blueprints

Clippings

Correspondence

Diaries

Drawings

Glass negatives

Journals (accounts)

Notebooks

Photographic prints

Photographs

Rubbings

Sketchbooks

Sketches

Paper Squeezes

Place:

Asia

Iran

Iraq

Jordan

Lebanon

Syria

Turkey

Mesopotamia

Aleppo (Syria)

Bakun, Tall-e (Iran)

Baʻlabakk (Lebanon)

Bīshāpūr (Extinct city)

Bisutun Site (Iran)

Damascus (Syria)

Fīrūzābād (Iran)

Ḥimṣ (Syria)

Iṣfahān (Iran)

Luristān (Iran)

Nahāvand (Iran)

Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran)

Paikuli (Iraq)

Palmyra (Syria)

Pasargadae (Extinct city)

Persepolis (Iran)

Petra (Extinct city)

Sāmarrā' (Iraq)

Sīstān va Balūchistān (Iran)

Tāq-e Bostān Site (Iran)

Tripoli (Lebanon)

Date:

1899

1899-1962

Topic:

Abbasids

Aerial photography

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Antiquities

Architectural drawing

Art of the Islamic World

Ayyubids

Decoration and ornament

Description and travel

Excavations (Archaeology)

History

Inscriptions

Numismatics

Papyrus

Pottery

Religious buildings

Local number:

FSA A.6

Notes:

"Ernst Emil Herzfeld (1879-1948) was an orientalist whose many talents led him to explore all phases of Near Eastern culture, from the prehistoric period to Islamic times and from linguistics and religion to art and architecture." [Margaret Cool Root, 1976: "The Herzfeld Archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 11, pp. 119-124."]

Summary:

- Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 1: Travel journals

- Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 2: Sketchbooks

- Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 3: Notebooks

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files" contains 3,790 glass negatives, of which Herzfeld had blueprints made. There are also 21 binders made of photographic prints and three albums. In addition to the glass negatives and the photo files, there is a large number of cut films and a package of duplicate prints which are, for the most part, unpublished

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 5: Drawings and Maps" comprises 1,562 drawings and 70 maps, published and unpublished, with observations on topography, landscape, archaeological remains, architecture, and artifacts

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 6: Paper Squeezes of Inscriptions" is organized into three subdivisions: FSA A.6 06.A, 100 items, inscriptions in Arabic language; FSA A.6 06.C, 129 items, inscriptions in Cuneiform writing; FSA A.6 06.M, 164 items, Middle-Persian and Parthian inscriptions. The paper squeezes relate primarly to several archaeological expeditions carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in the Middle East, from 1908 to 1934; to a trial excavation and an excavation campaign carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in Persepolis and several nearby sites, from 1923 to 1934; and to three expeditions to Paikuli (Iraq), in 1911, 1913, and 1923

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions" is organized into 135 units of original materials (drawings, sketches, sketchbooks, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, blueprints, notes, diaries, prints, journals, publications, articles, clippings, rubbings) from two campaigns of excavation at Samarra in Iraq, carried out by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin between the years 1911 and 1913

Publications:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1907: "Samarra, Aufnahmen und Untersuchungen zur Islamischen Archaeologie. Behrend & Co, Berlin."

- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1910: "Iranische felsreliefs; aufnahmen und untersuchungen von denkmälern aus alt- und mittelpersischer zeit. Berlin, E. Wasmuth A.-G."

Herzfeld, Ernst and Sarre, Friedrich, 1911: "Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet, Band I. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vohsen, Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst and Sarre, Friedrich, 1911: "Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet, Band III. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vohsen, Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1912: "Erster Vorläufiger Bericht über die Ausgrabungen von Samarra. Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1914: "Die Aufnahme des Sasanidischen Denkmals von Paikuli. Verlag der Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst and Sarre, Friedrich, 1920: "Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet, Band II. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vohsen, Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst and Sarre, Friedrich, 1920: "Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet, Band IV. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vohsen, Berlin."

- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1920: "Am Tor Von Asien, Felsdenkmale aus Irans Heldenzeit. Dietrich Reimer, Ernst Vohsen, A.-G., Verlag in Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1923: "Ausgrabungen von Samarra I, Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und Seine Ornamentik. Verlag Dietrich Reimer, Ernst Vohsen, Berlin."

- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1923-31: "Archaeologische Mitteilunen aus Iran; Band II and III. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Ernst Vohsen, Berlin."

- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1924: "Paikuli: Monument and Inscription of the Early History of the Sasanian Empire; Volume II, containing 228 plates. Berlin: D. Reimer, Ernst Vohsen."

Friedrich Sarre, 1925: "Ausgrabungen von Samarra II, Die Keramik von Samarra. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1927: "Ausgrabungen von Samarra III, Die Malereien von Samarra. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin."

Lamm, Carl Johan, 1928: "Ausgrabungen von Samarra IV, Das Glas von Samarra. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1930: "Ausgrabungen von Samarra V, Die Vorgeschichtlichen Töpfereien von Samarra. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin."

- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1935: "Archaeologische Mitteilunen aus Iran; Band VII. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Ernst Vohsen, Berlin."

- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1938: "Archaeologische Mitteilunen aus Iran; Band IX. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Ernst Vohsen, Berlin."

- Herzfeld, Ernst, 1941: "Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. London: Oxford University Press."

Herzfeld, Ernst. "Ars Islamica, IX, 'Damascus:Studies in Architecture, I. The Mukarnas Dome. The Madrasa'. Published by Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan."

Herzfeld, Ernst. "Ars Islamica, X (1943). Damascus: Studies in Architecture, II. 'The Cruciform Plan. Syrian Architecture, Period of Nūr ad-Dīn'. Published by Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan."

Herzfeld, Ernst: "Ars Islamica, XI-XII (1946). Damascus: Studies in Architecture, III. 'The Ayyubid Madrasa. The Turba'. Published by Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan."

Herzfeld, Ernst. "Ars Islamica, XIII-XIV. Damascus: Studies in Architecture, IV. 'The Mosque'. Published by Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan."

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1948: "Ausgrabungen von Samarra VI, Geschichte der Stadt Samarra. Hamburg, Eckardt & Messtorff; Buchhändlerischer Vertrieb durch D. Reimer, Andrews & Steiner, Berlin."

Herzfeld, Ernst. "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, Deuxième Partie : Syrie du Nord, Inscriptions et Monuments d'Alep. Tome II. Le Caire; Imprimerie de L'Institut Francais d'Archaéologie Orientale, 1954."

Northedge, Alastair, 1993: "An Interpretation of the Palace of the Caliph at Samarra (Dar Al-Khilafa or Jawsaq Al-Khaqani). In Ars Orientalis, Vol. 23."

Leisten, Thomas, 2003: "Excavation of Samarra, v. I. Architecture : Final report of the first campaign 1910-1912. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein."

Ann C. Gunter and Stefan R. Hauser, 2004: "Ernst Herzfeld and the development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1950. Boston, Massasuchetts: Brill."

Cite as:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files 1903-1947

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 5: Drawings and Maps 1903-1947

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 6: Paper Squeezes of Inscriptions 1903-1947

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions 1906-1945

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_230318

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Creator:

Pope, John Alexander 1906-

Subject:

Pope, John Alexander 1906-

Freer Gallery of Art

Physical description:

20.6 linear feet (ca. 19,000 items)

Type:

Correspondence

Collection descriptions

Photographs

Printed materials

Research

Place:

USA, District of Columbia, Washington

China

Washington (D.C.)

Date:

1929

1929-1982

Topic:

Art, Chinese

Art, Japanese

Local number:

A1998.1

Notes:

Museum director and art historian. Director of the Freer Gallery of Art from 1962 to 1971

Summary:

Biographical data, subject files containing correspondence and photographs, research files including materials related to his study of Chinese porcelains, files regarding the Freer Gallery of Art where Pope served as director from 1962-1971, writings and notes, printed materials, photographs, and 2 ceramic bowls

Cite as:

John Alexander Pope Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Gift of Annamarie H. Pope, 1988-1990

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_230341

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Creator:

Ferguson, John Calvin 1866-1945

Subject:

Ferguson, John Calvin 1866-1945

Physical description:

7 linear feet

Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Collection descriptions

Photographs

Newspaper clippings

Photograph albums

Speeches

Place:

China, Shanghai, Shanghai

China

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China)

Shanghai (China)

Date:

1899

1889-1962

bulk 1890-1944

19th century

20th century

Local number:

A1999.28

Notes:

John Calvin Ferguson was an advisor to the Executive Yüan of the National Government of China, college president, author, and art collector. Born in Napanee, Ontario, Canada in 1866, Ferguson was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1885, and awarded a Ph.D. degree from Boston University in 1902. Following his marriage to Mary E. Wilson, he went to China in 1887 as a missionary, where he founded a Methodist school, the Hui wen shu yüan, which eventually became the University of Nanking. He assumed the position of first president of Nanyang Public School (Nan-yang kung hsüeh) at Shanghai from 1897-1902. Subsequently, he became a member of the Treaty Commission, secretary to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and later chief secretary of the Imperial Chinese Railway Administration while being concurrently advisor to the Viceroys of Nanking and Wu-ch'ang. In Shanghai Dr. Ferguson was honorary secretary of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, proprieter of the Shanghai Times (daily), and editor of Sin Wan Pao, the leading daily newspaper, which he owned until 1929. During his last year in Shanghai, he became chairman of the Central China Famine Relief Committee. Moving to Peking in 1911, he became vice-president of the Red Cross Society and was appointed foreign secretary for the Ministry of Posts and Communications until 1912. From 1915 he became counselor of the department of state in China, and later served as advisor to the president of the Republic until 1928. During 1923-1931 Ferguson was joint-editor of The China Journal. Ferguson's art collection was temporarily placed in the Wen hua tien in the Palace in 1935, before going to the University of Nanking. Leaving Peking in 1943, Ferguson and his daughter Mary traveled back to the United States, where he died in 1945. Among his publications were Outlines of Chinese Art, 1919; Chinese Painting, 1927; Noted Porcelains of Successive Dynasties, 1931; Catalogue of Recorded Paintings, 1934; and Catalogue of Recorded Bronzes, 1934

Summary:

Papers (some are photocopies), portions in Chinese, of John Calvin Ferguson, his daughter Mary, and grandson Peter Ferguson and Peter's wife Jean. The bulk of the papers, 1890-1944, concern John C. Ferguson and include one holograph dated 1902 to Headland; typescripts of addresses given to the University of Nanking, 1909-1929, and a eulogy by Fu Tseng-hsi, a translation of his address to a public school in Shanghai, a mimeographed description of 55th anniversary of the University of Nanking, two newspaper clippings, and a 1936 issue of Caravan; and still prints and four photograph albums, 1890-1937, portraying Ferguson, his wife and family, Chinese officials, members of the Treaty Commission, landscape painting by T'ang Tai (1637-?), and works given to the University of Nanking. Additional papers mostly concern family members attempting to acquire documentation of Dr. Ferguson and to retrieve portions of his estate that remained in China

Cite as:

John Calvin Ferguson Family Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Gift of Peter Ferguson, 1999

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_230348

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Creator:

Gordon, Elizabeth 1906-2000

Subject:

Gordon, Elizabeth 1906-2000

Claiborne, Craig

Leach, Bernard

Physical description:

4 lin. ft

Type:

Correspondence

Collection descriptions

Periodicals

Photographs

Personal papers

Place:

USA, New York, New York

Japan

Date:

1958

1958-1987

1940-1970

1950-2000

Topic:

Aesthetics, Japanese

Art, Japanese

House funishings

Interior decoration

Interior decorators

Gardens

Landscape gardening

Museum exhibits

Local number:

A1988.3

Notes:

Born in Logansport, Indiana in 1906, Elizabeth Gordon served as editor of House Beautiful magazine 1941 to 1964. Ms. Gordon first became interested in Japanese aesthetics during the mid-1950s. As a result she began to read and study Japanese art, history and culture. In 1959, Gordon travelled to Japan with three staff people from, House Beautiful. In Kyoto she met Eiko Yuasa, a young woman then employed by the City of Kyoto to handle foreign V.I.P.s, who was assigned to assist Gordon during her stay there. It was Ms. Yuasa who, in the course of discussions of Japanese aesthetics, introduced the term "shibui." Around that term and its related concepts ("iki", "jimi", "hade") the theme for the issue began to crystallize. In August and September, 1960, House Beautiful, under the editorial control of Ms. Gordon, published two extremely popular issues devoted to the subject of "shibui". Due to the popularity of the issues, museum exhibits devoted to the concept of "shibui" travelled around the United States. Ms. Gordon died in Adamstown, Maryland in 2000

Summary:

The Elizabeth Gordon Papers measure 4.5 linear feet and span the years 1959-1987. The collection mainly documents Ms. Gordon's research for the August and September 1960 issues of House Beautiful regarding the Japanese aesthetic concept of "shibui", and the subsequent travelling "shibui exhibition" from 1961-1964. Included are correspondence, some photocopies, 1959-1963; research notes and materials; articles; lectures; printed material including magazine and newspaper clippings, 1959-1987; 2 books, and exhibition announcements; article materials; a photo album containing photos of exhibition installations; and photographs, slides, color transparencies, and lantern slides depicting people, sites, and objects reflecting the "shibui" aesthetic

Cite as:

The Elizabeth Gordon Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Elizabeth Gordon, 1988

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_234344

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Creator:

UNKNOWN

Physical description:

32 items; 39 x 25 cm

Type:

Drawings

Collection descriptions

Pictorial works

Views

Place:

India, Union Territory

India

Date:

1840

Topic:

Drawing, Indic

Tamil (Indic people)

Ethnology

Social life and customs

Description and travel

Local number:

FSA.1993.10

Summary:

The circumstances of creation are unknown for these watercolor drawings depicting Tamil men and women in various trades and activities. These ethnographic studies may have been rendered by a local Indian artist of the Pondicherry area of South India on commission for a French official or merchant. The name "Company School" has been attached to suggest the similarity between these drawings and those typically commissioned by the East India Company, especially during the early 18th century. The regularity of size and shape and numbering of the sheets would seem to indicate that these drawings may have been used to illustrate a bound monograph. Captions are in French. Several sheets are watermarked "J. Whatman. Balston & Co." with dates 1822-1825

Cite as:

French India Company School Drawings. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Thomas L. Hughes, 1984-1985

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_234807

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Creator:

Vever, Henri 1854-1942

Subject:

Vever, Henri 1854-1942

Physical description:

1 v

Type:

Photograph albums

Collection descriptions

Photographs

Place:

France, Ile-de-France, Paris

France

Paris

Paris (France)

Date:

1881

1881-1930

Topic:

Art dealers

Jewelers

Art--Collectors and collecting

Local number:

A1998.5

Notes:

Jeweler, art collector, and author Henri Vever was born in Metz, France in 1854. Together with his older brother Paul, Henri Vever managed the family jewelry firm, Maison Vever, from 1881 until Paul's death in 1915 and Henri's retirement in 1921. As an art collector, Vever amassed a large collection of European, Asian, and Islamic art. Through his work as a jeweler, art collector, and author, Henri Vever played an important role in the twentieth-century art world

Summary:

A photograph album with photographs, dated 1881-1930, of various Vever family members and the family estate in Noyers, France

Cite as:

Vever Family Photograph Album. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Jacqueline Mautin, 1988

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_234827

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Creator:

Yatsuhashi Harumichi Family

Subject:

Yatsuhashi family

Yamanaka, Sadajiro

Yatsuhashi, Harumichi 1886-1982

Harvard University

Yamanaka & Company

Physical description:

8.25 linear feet

Type:

Address books

Collection descriptions

Photographs

Printed material

Announcements

Books

Catalogs

Correspondence

Diaries

Photograph albums

Sheet music

Visiting cards

Place:

USA, Massachusetts, Boston

New York (State)

New York

Japan

Massachusetts

Boston

Boston (Mass.)

New York (N.Y.)

Date:

1907

1907-1976

1910-1960

Topic:

Alien property

Art dealers

Japanese American families

Local number:

A1994.2

Notes:

Asian art dealer and merchant Yatsuhashi Harumichi (1886- 1982) was born in Tano, Japan, on December 15, 1886. Upon completion of his studies in Osaka, Mr. Yatsuhashi secured employment in the Osaka office of the prestigious Asian antiquities firm, Yamanaka & Company. In 1907 he joined Yamanka & Company's branch office in Boston, Massachusetts, as its general manager and treasurer of the company's Asian division. Located at 424 Boylston Street, the store was a center for Chinese art, as well as for Japanese assorted goods. In 1913 Yatsuhashi married Shigeki. They produced two sons (Michio and Masao) and two daughters (Sumiko and Kukiye). (Harumichi Yatsuhashi, Oriental art authority and Brookline resident. (1982 December 3). The Boston Globe, obituaries.) Following the United States' entrance into World War II, the Alien Property Custodian seized the Yamanaka shops in New York, Boston, and Chicago. The holdings were sold at auction in May and June, 1944. In 1945, Yatsuhashi Harumichi and his son Michio opened their own Asian art dealership at 420 Boylston Street in Boston. Yatsuhashi Harumichi fostered exchange between his native and adopted homeland. He was a member and officer (president in 1931) of the Japan Society of Boston since 1921, an avid supporter of the Boston Marathon, and a founder of the Boston-Kyoto Sister City Foundation. (Boston Globe, 1982 December 4. ) Michio Yatsuhashi, who helped his father open the Yatsuhashi antique shop, died prematurely as a result of cancer in 1981. One year later, Mr. Yatsuhashi died in Boston at the age of 96. He was survived by his daughters, Sumiko and Kikuye and one son, Masao

Summary:

The Yatsuhashi Harumichi Family Papers (1906-1976) document the professional and personal lives of a Japanese-American family in Boston during the twentieth century. The patriarch, Yatsuhashi Harumichi (1886-1982), was an influential Asian art dealer and the papers also document the professional experiences of Asian art dealers in the United States during the early and mid 20th century. Mr. Yatsuhashi worked at the antiquities firm of Yamanaka & Company before starting his own Asian antiquities shop in 1945. Included in the papers, portions in Japanese, are correspondence; catalogues relating to the Alien Property Custodian's 1944 liquidation of Yamanaka & Company's New York branch's holdings; photographs depicting art objects and shop interiors, the Yatsuhashi family; Yamanaka & Company, and extended family, friends, and colleagues; and items belonging to Mr. Yatsuhashi's wife, Shigeki, and some of their children

Cite as:

The Yatsuhashi Harumichi Family Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of James Arthur Marinaccio, 1994

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_234966

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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang 1856-1919

Bacher, Otto H (Otto Henry) 1856-1909

Berenson, Bernard 1865-1959

Bing, Siegfried 1838-1905

Binyon, Laurence 1869-1943

Bixby, William K (William Keeney) 1857-1931

Bosch-Reitz, Sigisbert Chretien 1860-

Caffin, Charles Henry 1854-1918

Campbell, Colin Lord 1853-1895

Campbell, Colin Lady 1857-1911

Chase, William Merritt 1849-1916

Church, Frederick S (Frederick Stuart) 1842-1924

Churchill, Alfred Vance 1864-1949

Canfield, Richard A (Richard Albert) 1855-1914

Coburn, Alvin Langdon 1882-1966

Dewing, Thomas Wilmer 1851-1938

Dow, Arthur W (Arthur Wesley) 1857-1922

Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco 1853-1908

Gallatin, A. E (Albert Eugene) 1881-1952

Gellatly, John 1853-1931

Gookin, Frederick William

Hartmann, Sadakichi 1867-1944

Hecker, Frank J (Frank Joseph) 1846-1927

Kelekian, Dikran 1868-1951

Laufer, Berthold 1874-1934

McCormick, Frederick 1870-

Matsuki, Bunkio 1867-1940

Melchers, Gari 1860-1932

Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst 1887-

Meyer, Eugene 1875-1959

Moore, Charles 1855-1942

Nomura, Yozo

Philip, Rosalind Birnie 1873-1958

Reid, Alexander

Rhoades, Katharine N. 1885-1965

Platt, Charles A (Charles Adams) 1861-1933

Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus 1848-1907

Steichen, Edward 1879-1973

Stieglitz, Alfred 1864-1946

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 1849-1921

Tryon, Dwight William 1849-1925

Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927

Warring, Joseph Stephens 1863?-1944

Way, Thomas R (Thomas Robert) 1861-1913

Whistler, Beatrix Philip Godwin d. 1896

Wong, K. T

Yue, Seaouke

M. Knoedler & Co

Yamanaka & Company

Subject:

Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903

Freer Gallery of Art

Smithsonian Institution

Physical description:

145 linear feet

Type:

Photographs

Collection descriptions

Diaries

Financial records

Correspondence

Place:

USA, Michiganv, Detroit

Boston (Mass.)

Detroit (Mich.)

Washington (D.C.)

London (England)

Date:

1876

1876-1931

Topic:

Art, Asian--Collectors and collecting

Art, American--Collectors and collecting

Art--Collectors and collecting

Local number:

A1

Notes:

Charles Lang Freer was a wealthy industrialist who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. He was a well-known collector of Asian art, and strongly supported the synthesis of Eastern art and Western art. One of his most famous acquisitions was James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room

Summary:

The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, financial material, architectural drawings, and photographs

Correspondence, ca. 1860-1921, includes Freer's correspondence, 1876-1920, with artists, dealers, collectors, museums, and public figures; letterpress books contain copies of Freer's outgoing letters, 1892-1910; correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler, and his wife Beatrix, 186?-1909, with Lady Colin Campbell, Thomas R. Way, Alexander Reid, Whistler' mother, Mrs. George W. Whistler, and others; correspondence of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, 1904-1913, regarding works in Canfield's collection; and correspondence of Freer's assistant, Katharine Nash Rhoades, 1920-1921, soliciting Freer letters and regarding the settlement of his estate

Also included are twenty-nine pocket diaries, 1889-1890, 1892-1898, 1900-1919, recording daily activities, people and places visited, observations, and comments; a diary kept by Freer's caretaker, Joseph Stephens Warring, recording daily activities at Freer's Detroit home, 1907-1910

Inventories, n.d. and 1901-1921, of American, European, and Asian art in Freer's collection, often including provenance information; vouchers, 1884-1919, documenting his purchases; five volumes of scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeill Whistler, 1888-1931, labeled "Various," "Peacock Room," "Death, etc.," "Paris, etc.," and "Boston...London" ; three volumes of newsclippings, 1900-1930, concerning Freer and the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art

Correspondence regarding Freer's gift and bequest to the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1916; and photographs, ca. 1880-1930, of Freer, including portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Freer with others, Freer in Cairo, China and Japan, Freer's death mask, and his memorial service, Kyoto, 1930; photographs of artists and others, including Thomas Dewing, Ernest Fenellosa, Katharine Rhoades taken by Alfred Stieglitz, Rosalind B. Philip, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Abbott H. Thayer, Dwight Tryon, and Whistler; and photographs relating to Whistler, including art works depicting him, grave and memorial monuments, works of art, the Peacock Room, and Whistler's memorial exhibition at the Copley Society

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Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_234982

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Creator:

Muller, Robert O. 1911-2003

Physical description:

7.5 linear feet

Type:

Auction catalogs

Collection descriptions

Exhibition catalogs

Price lists

Photographic prints

Correspondence

Place:

USA, Connecticut, New Haven

Japan

Date:

1930-1997

20th century

19th century

Topic:

Prints, Japanese

Art--Collectors and collecting

Printmakers

shin-hanga

Description and travel

Local number:

A2003.14

Notes:

Born in 1911 in Pelham, New York, art collector, dealer, and connoisseur Robert O. Muller assembled a collection of nearly 4,500 late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese prints throughout his life. As a history student at Harvard University, Mr. Muller's world renowned print collection began to take shape with the purchase of the print 'Kiyosu Bridge" by Kawase Hasui for $5.00 from the Shima Art Company in 1931. Mr. Muller married Ingeborg Lee in 1940 and their honeymoon in Japan played a critical role in Mr. Muller's development as an art dealer and collector. They spent five months there and met with many important artists and dealers and purchased thousands of prints for both their personal art collection and for commerce. Upon their return to the States, Mr. Muller purchased the Shima Art Company's assets and started the Robert Lee Gallery with his partner William Lee Comerford in 1940. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, Muller and Comerford closed the Robert Lee Gallery and later reopened it in a different Manhattan location. The Mullers moved to Newton, Connecticut, in 1946 and reestablished the Robert Lee Gallery there. In 1962, Muller purchased a frame shop, Merwin's Art Shop, in New Haven, Connecticut. Although primarily a framing shop, Muller not only befriended many scholars and academics from nearby Yale University but sold Japanese prints from the back room. From that initial purchase of 'Kiyosu Bridge' in 1931 up until his death in 2003, Robert Muller amassed what many art historians, collectors, and curators regarded as the finest collection of its type in the world. Muller bequeathed his Japanese print collection, archival materials, and library to the Sackler Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution

Summary:

Personal papers created by Robert O. Muller (1911-2003), a Connecticut-based collector who over the course of seventy years had assembled one of the world's finest collections of Japanese prints from the late 1860s through the 1940s.The papers include Muller's correspondence, subject files, business transactions, and research pertaining to Japanese woodblock prints

Cite as:

Robert O. Muller Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Bequest of Robert O. Muller, 2003

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_249567

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Creator:

Parker, Richard Bordeaux 1923-

Physical description:

681 items

Type:

Photographic prints

Collection descriptions

Negatives

Place:

Cairo (Egypt)

Algeria

Fès (Morocco)

Marrakech (Morocco)

Meknès (Morocco)

Morocco

Rabat-Salé (Morocco)

Syria

Jordan

Date:

1965

1965-1979

Topic:

Islamic antiquities

Local number:

A2002.6

Notes:

Richard Bordeaux Parker was born on July 3, 1923, in the Philippines where his father was stationed in the United States Army. He earned a Bachelors of Science in General Science and a Masters of Science in Citizenship Education from Kansas State University. After serving as an infantry soldier during World War II, Parker joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1949. His first tour was spent in Sydney, Australia. He then focused his career on the Middle East, holding a number of posts in Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. In addition, Parker served as ambassador to Algeria (1974-1977), Lebanon (1977), and Morocco (1978-1979.) Fluent in Arabic, he has written/edited seven books to date on subjects concerning the Middle East. He retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1981 and became the editor of, The Middle East Journal, from 1981 through 1987. In addition to his diplomatic career, Parker taught at the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, and Lawrence University. He served as the first president of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training from 1986-1989. He is also a member of several organizations including the Advisory Council on Near East Studies at Princeton University, the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Cosmos Club, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Middle East Institute. In June, 2004, he received the American Foreign Service Association's lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy award. Richard B. Parker is married with four children and lives in Washington, D.C

Summary:

The Amb. Richard B. Parker Photographs contains 200 black and white prints, 481 black and white negatives, and two black and white contact sheets of Islamic monuments in Algeria, Cairo, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, and Spain. The Morocco series in the largest in the collection covering four cities. Photographs from Cairo span the years 1965-1968. All other photographs span the years 1970-1979. Originally, the negatives and prints were housed together. Although the negatives are now housed separately from the prints, they are grouped in the original order. All prints are in original order. Most of the photographs have been annotated and/or dated by the creator

Cite as:

Amb. Richard B. Parker Photographs, 1965-1979. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C. Gift of Ambassador Richard B. Parker, 2002

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_250750

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Subject:

Duanfang 1861-1911

Physical description:

Silver gelatin

1 photographic print : b&w ; 17.5 x 23 cm

Type:

Photographs

Collection descriptions

Place:

China, Beijing, Beijing

China

Date:

1907

Qing dynasty, 1644-1912

Topic:

Manchu

History

Local number:

A2004.3

Notes:

Duanfang was an officer in the Qing court who amassed a fairly large art collection. This collection included jades, bronzes, landscape paintings and sculpture. Duanfang worked in many different positions, including as a customs officer and a provincial governor. In the summer of 1905, Duanfang travelled to the West to research how governments in the United States and Europe functioned. In 1911, Duanfang travelled to the Sichuan province to oversee railroad construction. There was a large amount of civil unrest and conflict, and Duanfang was beheaded by his own imperial troops, who were sympathetic to local revolutionaries

Summary:

This photograph depicts Duanfang and about 20 other men behind a bronze altar

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Photograph of Duanfang and colleagues with bronze altar, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Gift of Thomas Lawton

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_274574

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Creator:

Bahr, A. W

Subject:

Bahr, A. W

Cammell, Charles Richard

Physical description:

1.25 linear feet

Type:

Photographs

Collection descriptions

Correspondence

Manuscripts

Place:

Canada, Quebec, Montreal

China

Japan

England

Connecticut

Date:

1919

1919-1957

Topic:

Art, Chinese

Art, Japanese

China--Description and travel

Japan--Description and travel

Local number:

A2001.14

Notes:

A.W. Bahr was born in Shanghai in 1877 to a German father and a Chinese mother. He founded the Central Trading Company with a friend in 1898. Throughout the next few years, he remained in China, organizing various art exhibitions with pieces from his own collection. Bahr moved to London, England in 1910, where he continued to exhibit art, finally moving to Canada with his family in 1946. Before his death in 1959, Bahr donated pieces of his collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Summary:

This collection contains manuscript drafts and notes for Bahr's memoir, written by Bahr himself and C.R. Cammell, who was also the editor of 'The Connoisseur' magazine. Other papers include correspondence with collectors of Chinese art or other figures in the art world, such as Lord Kitchener, the King and Queen of Sweden, Walter Muir Whitehill, Kenjiro Matsumoto and Senator Theodore Francis Green, among others. The bulk of the collection contains approximately 300 photographs of different Chinese art objects, from jade figurines to pottery to paintings. Most of these photographs are unidentified, but some of them include marginalia that indicate that they were of Bahr's own art objects for publication in books or articles. Photographs which are identified point to art objects also belonging to Bahr. The photographs have been organized based on the object type in the photograph, such as painting, statue or figurine

Cite as:

A.W. Bahr Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Penelope Jane Bahr, November 12th, 2001

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_279715

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Creator:

Cahill, James 1926-

Subject:

Barnhart, Richard M. 1934-

Cahill, James 1926-

Fong, Wen

Fu, Shen 1937-

Lawton, Thomas 1931-

Ledderose, Lothar date

Lee, Sherman E

Li, Chu-tsing 1920-

Pope, John Alexander

Sickman, L. C. S (Laurence C. S.)

Soper, Alexander Coburn 1904-

Vinograd, Richard Ellis date

Wang, Chi-ch'ien

Wu, Nelson Ikon 1919-

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

College Art Association of America

Freer Gallery of Art

Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Physical description:

15 linear feet

Type:

Postcards

Collection descriptions

Manuscripts

Place:

USA, California, Berkeley

Berkeley (Calif.)

China

Japan

Washington (D.C.)

Date:

1945

1945-1996

Topic:

Art historians

Art, Chinese

Art, Japanese

Local number:

A2001.11

Notes:

James Cahill was born in Fort Bragg, California in 1926. After studying in Berkeley, Michigan, New York, and Kyoto, he joined the staff of the Freer and Sackler Gallery as curator of Chinese art in 1956. He published his first obok, "Chinese Painting," in 1960, and left the Freer and Sackler Gallery in 1965 to teach art history at the University of California, Berkeley.In 1973, Cahill joined the first group of art historians to visit China as part of the Chinese Archaelogical Delegation. Cahill later taught at Harvard and Princeton, and currently lives in Vancouver, Canada

Summary:

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. Portions record 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. The folder descriptions were retained from Cahill's own folder titles and organized alphabetically within each series. The correspondence files include communication with some of the most influential members of the Asian art community including: Richard M. Barnhart, Wen Fong, Shen fu, Thomas Lawton, Lothar Ledderose, Sherman Lee, Chu-tsing Li, John A. Pope, Alan Priest, Laurence Sickman, Osvald Siren, Alexander Soper, C.C. Wang, Fangyu Wang, and Nelson Wu, as well as letters exchanged with art organizations such as the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Freer Gallery of Art, College Art Association, National Palace Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The project files include Cahill's notes; clippings; publicity and announcements; photographs; drafts of articles and speeches; and correspondence pertaining to specific projects such as the Taiwan photo project, exhibitions, and numerous lectures and symposia in which he participated

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James Cahill papers, 1945-1996. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of James Cahill, December 12th, 2001

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_279716

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Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang 1856-1919

Subject:

Kelsey, Francis W (Francis Willey) 1858-1927

Sanders, Henry A (Henry Arthur) 1868-1956

Dennison, Walter 1869-1917

Physical description:

2 linear feet

Type:

Photographs

Collection descriptions

Place:

Egypt, Cairo, Cairo

Dimay

Date:

1856

1856-1919

1907-1920

Local number:

A.1

Notes:

Art collector; Detroit, Michigan. Collected Asian, American, and European art, including a large collection of works by James McNeill Whistler. Founded the Freer Gallery of Art, which is now part of the Smithsonian Institution

Summary:

This collection includes correspondence regarding the Biblical manuscripts purchased by C.L. Freer in Egypt and the scholarly study and publication of these manuscripts

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Biblical Manuscripts and Gold Treasure collection, Charles Lang Freer papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the Estate of Charles Lang Freer

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_279718

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Tryon, Dwight William 1849-1925

Subject:

Freer, Charles Lang 1856-1919

Tryon, Dwight William 1849-1925

Physical description:

.5 linear feet

Type:

Cartes-de-visite

Collection descriptions

Clippings

Letters

Photographs

Sketchbooks

Place:

USA, Massachusetts, South Dartmouth

Hartford (Conn.)

Japan

New York

South Dartmouth (Mass.)

Date:

1872

1872-1930

Topic:

Art, American

Landscape painting

Local number:

A.1989

Notes:

American landscape painter Dwight William Tryon was born in Hartford, CT on August 13, 1849. When Tryon was about 2 years old, his father Anson Tryon was killed in a hunting accident and he was raised at his maternal grandparents' home. At the age of fourteen, Tryon began work as a machinist at Colt's Firearms Factory in Hartford to support his mother and himself. He enrolled in evening classes at Hannum's Business School and developed calligraphic skills which supplemented his income

In 1864 Tryon became a bookkeeper and clerk at Brown and Gross, the finest booksellers in Hartford and a gathering place for local literary people such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain. During his ten-year appointment there, Tryon self-studied art using the bookstore's large stock in art books and made weekend sketching trips to the Connecticut River. In 1872 Tryon was appointed Secretary of the Hartford Art Association and began exhibiting his works. In 1873 he exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York. In that year he married Alice Hepzibah Belden whom he had met in the bookstore

In December, 1876, the Tryon family moved to Paris, France to pursue art with financial support from the Cheney family, wealthy silk manufacturers in South Manchester, CT. Tryon received formal training under Jacquesson de la Chevreuse, a Barbizon painter Charles-Francois Daubigny, and others. He also attended the École des Beaux-Arts

On returning to the United States in 1881, Tryon took a studio in New York and taught for several years. In the following year, he became a member of the Society of American Artists. Throughout the 1880s when the Barbizon paintings were highly regarded, Tryon's French-inspired American landscape paintings received international as well as national acclaim, winning him numerous medals and awards. In 1899, Tryon was awarded the Webb prize by the Society of American Artists for The First Leaves, a recognition given annually to the best landscape painting by a young American artist. In the same year, Tryon sold his first painting to Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), a Detroit industrialist and collector, who became Tryon's principal patron

From 1886 to 1923, Tryon taught at Smith College, MA, as Professor of Art and took charge of the Art Department. He advised on the college's art collection and acted as the department's representative in the New York art world. Tryon resigned from the College in May 1923, and in June of the same year he received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Smith College

In 1887, the Tryon family built a house ("The Cottage") in Padanaram, a coastal village in South Dartmouth, MA, where they would spend every year from spring to autumn until his death. In Padanaram, Tryon made sketches which he developed into paintings in his New York apartment during the winter months. Tryon also took immense pleasure in fishing and sailing in Padanaram

In 1904, the Montross Gallery in New York held a one-man show on Tryon's painting, and in 1913 they launched Tryon's Retrospective Exhibition. In 1923, the Freer Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D. C., including a permanent collection of Tryon's paintings

Tryon died of cancer at his summer house on July 1, 1925, at the age of 75. Upon his death, Tryon bequeathed a large number of his works to Smith College. In September of the following year, the Tryon Gallery at Smith College opened

Summary:

The Dwight William Tryon papers span circa 1872 to 1930 and measure .5 linear feet. The collection contains: nineteen photographs, a sketchbook, a letter, and five newspaper clippings

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Dwight William Tryon papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of an anonymous donor and Linda Merrill, 1989

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_279719

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Creator:

Bier, Lionel D. 1942-2004

Physical description:

29 architectural drawings

Type:

Architectural drawings

Collection descriptions

Place:

USA, New York, New York

Iran

Date:

1975

1975-1976

Topic:

Archaeology

Architecture--Sassanid

Local number:

A2004.05

Notes:

The late Lionel D. Bier, art historian and archaeologist, taught art history at Brooklyn College for more than 30 years. He was primarily active in researching the archaeological record of pre- and early-Islamic Iran. Among his noted publications are: Sarvistan: A Study in Early Iranian Architecture (1986) and The Sassanian Palaces and their Influence in Early Islam, from Ars Orientalis (Vol. 23, 1993)

Summary:

Twenty-nine ink and pencil drawings documenting, usually both in plan and elevation, a number of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iranian architectural monuments, executed on site between 1975 and 1976. Focus primarily is on Sassanian sites. Sites covered include: Bishapur, Firuzabad, Istakhr, Masjid-i Sang, Sarvistan, and Shari-i Ij

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_282155

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Creator:

Bier, Carol

Bier, Lionel D. 1942-2004

Physical description:

circa 2500 frames : black and white (2 binders)

Culture:

Sassanians

Qashqāʼī (Turkic people) Iran

Type:

Negatives

Collection descriptions

Slides (photographs)

Place:

Iran, Fars

Iran

Mamasānī (Iran)

Date:

1975

1975-1976

1950-2000

Topic:

Archaeology

Architecture, Sassanid

Local number:

A.2008.01

Notes:

Carol Bier is an historian of Islamic art who is Research Associate at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, where she served as Curator for Eastern Hemisphere Collections from 1984-2001. Her research focuses on Islamic patterns as intersections of art and mathematics

The late Lionel D. Bier, art historian and archaeologist, taught art history at Brooklyn College for more than 30 years. He was primarily active in researching the archaeological record of pre- and early-Islamic Iran. Among his noted publications are: Sarvistan: A Study in Early Iranian Architecture (1986) and The Sassanian Palaces and their Influence in Early Islam, from Ars Orientalis (Vol. 23, 1993)

Summary:

Photographs taken by Carol Bier and Lionel Bier, comprising two binders of black and white 35mm negatives and contact sheets as well as a collection of color slides documenting both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iranian architectural monuments, taken 1975-1976. Focus primarily on the Sasanian sites of Fars province, focusing on built monuments, rock reliefs, and rock-cut monuments. Sites include: Firuzabad, Naqshi-Rustam, Naqshi-Rajab, Bishapur, Sarvistan, and Taq-i Bustan. Also includes a small number of ethnographic images by Carol Bier, predominanly of the Qashqai and Mamasani. Some of these images have been used previously in publications by both the authors themselves as well as other scholars

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_282164

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Creator:

Cox, John Hadley b. 1913

Physical description:

ca. 105 lantern slides : black and white ; 3 x 4 in

Type:

Lantern slides

Collection descriptions

Place:

China, Hunan Province, Changsha

China

Changsha (Hunan Sheng, China)

Date:

1936

1936-1936

circa 1936-1939

Topic:

Archaeology--Antiquities

Ceramics

Pottery

Bronzes, Chinese

Lacquer and lacquering

Local number:

A1991.07

Notes:

John Hadley Cox (b. 1913) was a collector of Chinese archaeological ceramic, pottery and bronze vessels, predominantly from the Ch'angsha region of Hunan Province, South Central China. Upon graduating from Yale University in 1935, he spent two years teaching at Yale University's Yale-in-China program in Changsha. In 1991, Mr. Hadley also donated 106 potsherds of Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Chinese origin to the Freer Gallery Study Collection. Mr. Hadley also left numerous items of his collection to the art gallery of his alma mater

Summary:

Period latern slides taken in the mid to late 1930's pertaining to objects in Mr. Cox's collection, namely ceramics, bronzes, lacquer and figures found at archaeological sites in Changsha, Hunan province, dating primarily from the Zhou and Han Dynasties and from the Warring States period

At a later date, a 5 minute 16mm film of the annual Dragon Boat Festival, shot in Changsha, Hunan province, in 1935 was added to this collection by the donor. The film was converted into both Beta and VHS cassette formats

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_282170

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