page_title: Horace H. F. Jayne
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Horace H. F. Jayne / Career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Salón de recepción del palacio del duque Zhao (Zhaogongfu). Philadelphia Museum of Art.
context_page_description: Horace Howard Furness Jayne was an American museum director and curator, art historian, and expert on Asian art.
context_section_description: He joined the staff of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) in 1921, and was made curator of East Asian art in 1923. He served as director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1929-1940; and as vice-director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941-1949.
  During World War II, he was a member of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, which provided the U.S. military with lists of and reports on cultural treasures in Europe and the Pacific Arena. The committee's recommendations led to creation of the Monuments Men program. The U.S. State Department took over the program in 1946, and Jayne was the first American civilian sent to China after the war. He headed the China desk of Voice of America, 1949-1953.
  He returned to PMA in 1953 as acting chief of Eastern Art, and was named vice-director of the museum the following year. He retired from PMA in 1960, and moved to Seminole, Florida. He was advisory curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1961-1966; and curator of Asian arts at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida from 1966 to his death in 1975.
caption: Reception Hall (c. 1640), Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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