Alexander Coburn Soper Typescript
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A1990.05
name: label: Donor
content: Soper, Alexander Coburn, 1904-1993
label: Names
content: Moran, Sherwood E., 1885-1983
place: label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: China
label: Place
content: New York (N.Y.)
label: Place
content: USA -- New York -- New York
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Topic
content: Art, Chinese
label: Topic
content: Art, Japanese
creator: label: Donor
content: Soper, Alexander Coburn, 1904-1993
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alexander Coburn Soper was a preeminent professor and historian of Asian art, concentrating primarily on Japanese and Chinese architecture, Chinese art from the Tang through the Northern Sung period, Gandharan Indian art, and Buddhist and secular art of the Six Dynasties period. Published widely, he became the editor of the journal Artisbus Asiae in 1958. Over the course of his life he was active in the American Oriental Society, the Japan Society, and the Association for Asian Studies. He was a professor of Art History at Bryn Mawr and the Institute of Fine Arts in New York.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sherwood Ford Moran (1885-1983) was a missionary, social worker, Marine, World War II PoW interrogator, and Asian art scholar. He studied Union Theological Seminary in New York and was then enlisted for work initially in India, but rerouted to Japan in 1917, mostly in the area of Osaka, remaining there until the entry of the United States in World War II in 194. During the war, he was an active Marine and a PoW interrogator at Guadacanal. He became extremely interested in Chinese and Japanese Buddhist art, publishing several articles in Artibus Asiae.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1977-1992
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Alexander C. Soper, 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1990.05
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Typescripts
label: Type
content: Personal papers
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Organized in 3 boxes: 2 boxes contain files from 1977-1992 regarding Artibus Asiae. 1 box houses an introduction to the typescript, Moran's offprints, photos.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Typescripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Personal papers -- 1950-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Offprints of articles by Sherwood F. Moran compiled by Alexander Coburn Soper, accompanied by photographs, a reproduction, and Soper's introduction typescript, assembled in preparation for an unpublished book of Moran' writing entitled "Studies in Japanese Art Treasures."