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Monday, July 8, 2024 |
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Asian Art Scholar Laurance P. Roberts, 95, Dies |
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BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.- Asian art scholar Laurance P. Roberts, 95, died, reported The New York Times. Roberts has been director of the Brooklyn Museum and the American Academy in Rome. He worked as assistant curator of Oriental art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He then studied the Chinese language and art in China and joined the Brooklyn Museum in 1934 and was its curator of Oriental art department. In 1938 he became director of the Brooklyn Museum. He wrote the books: "Guide to Japanese Museums" (1967), "Dictionary of Japanese Artists" (1977, Weatherhill) and "The Bernard Berenson Collection of Oriental Art at Villa I Tatti" (1991).
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