Loo Family Photographs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2010.07
name: label: Creator
content: Loo, C. T. & Co.
label: Names
content: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
place: label: Place
content: France
label: Place
content: Paris (France)
label: Place
content: Beijing (China)
label: Place
content: France -- Ile-de-France -- Paris
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- China
creator: label: Creator
content: Loo, C. T. & Co.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Loo Family Photographs
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The photographs document the gallery, C.T. Loo et Cie, known as the Pagoda (renovated 1926-1928, currently a designated historical site in Paris) of the leading internateal dealer of Chinese art C.T. Loo (1880-1957). Well known to art experts around the world, the gallery attracted the attention of the renowned art historian Osvald Siren, who wrote an article in 1928 on this gallery, focusing on the murals. Many of the objects shown in the gallery can be identified as important pieces in major American and European museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, and the Musee Guimet, Paris. Loo was instrumental in introducing some of the most important bronzes, jades, and stone sculptures to the Freer Gallery of Art between 1915 and 1951. This collection holds an added significance because it comes from Janine Loo Pierre-Emmanuel (1920-2013), daughter of C. T. Loo, and ex-wife of Jean-Pierre Dubosc, the prominent Sinologist, collector and dealer of Chinese art. Mme. Pierre-Emmanuel, a well-known dealer in the post-war era, was in contact with important scholars, collectors and dealers, such as Pierre Teillard de Chardin, Laurence Sickman, Grenville L. Winthrop, Arthur M. Sackler, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, and J. T. Tai. In addition to Chinese art, the gallery interior views show pieces from South and Southeast Asia
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Cubic feet (black and white silver gelatin prints)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937-1955, undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Janine Loo Pierre-Emmanuel, 2010
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2010.07
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographic prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Photographs are numbered individually with no attempt to organize by subject.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographic prints -- Silver gelatin -- 1900-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Fifty two photographic prints relating to the Asian art dealer C.T. Loo. Photographs feature interior and exterior views of Loo's Paris gallery, showing important works of art, many of which were later acquired by museums and private collections of Europe and the US. Also included are formal portraits and informal snapshots of Loo, his family and associates in Paris and Beijing.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 北京