Laurance Page Roberts Papers
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2014.01
name: label: Creator
content: Roberts, Laurance Page
place: label: Place
content: China
label: Place
content: Japan
title: label: Topic
content: Asian art & culture (Unnumbered)
creator: label: Creator
content: Roberts, Laurance Page
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Laurance Page Roberts (1907-2002) was an art historian and art administrator in New York, Rome, and Philadelphia. Roberts worked as Curator of Near and Far Eastern Art (1934-1938), then Director (1938-1942) at the Brooklyn Museum. He later went on to be Director of the American Academy in Rome (1946-1959).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Box 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Laurance Page Roberts, 1996.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2014.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Papers
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Papers
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: These papers were created by museum director, administrator, and writer Laurance Page Roberts. The bulk of the collection is study material on Asian art originating from school course work during the 1930s. There are several notebooks filled with notes taken during lectures, several contain mounted photographs of Asian art works from public collections with descriptions. There are also 13 photos of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat.