Biographic Material and Metropolitan Museum of Art Career
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lippe, Aschwin, 1914-1988
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection / Series 1: Personal and Professional Life
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2012.01, Subseries 1.1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection includes a biography and publications list created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to accompany a 1988 memorial exhibit honoring Lippe. There are a few newspaper and magazine articles about Lippe and family members. Correspondence and reports provide some insight into his relationship with the American Institute of Indian Studies and the American Academy of Benares in the 1970s. Information specific to his Metropolitan Museum of Art activities consists of miscellaneous notes between Lippe and colleagues including Alan Priest, and some Museum reports. Of interest is 1964 correspondence which he collected in a folder labeled "Retirement" concerning events surrounding his appointment as Research Curator. For potentially-related correspondence from 1964 see Series 2, Correspondence. Box 2 contains notes, journals, and correspondence about Japanese art dated 1958 and labeled as "Japan Art Travel Notes." It may relate to a proposal for an exhibit.