Korean Art, 1950-1966
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010
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content: Eugene Irving Knez papers
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content: Eugene Irving Knez papers / Series 2: SUBJECT FILE
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content: Box 19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Includes correspondence from Knez on the shipment of National Museum and Yi Collections from Seoul to Pusan during the Korean War, the role of President Rhee and National Museum director Kim, Chewon; the criticism Kim received from government officials, and the difficulty transferring the collections to Hawaii for safe-keeping, 1951; letter from Paik, L. G., Minister, Ministry of Education, thanking Knez for the transfer of the art collections to Pusan and the possibility of transferring eight crates to the Korean Embassy in Washington, D. C., December 24, 1950; letter from United States Representative Hugh D. Scott, Jr., thanking Knez for the Korean art objects he sent him and arrangements for future shipments, 1950; letter from Woodbridge Bingham, University of California, Berkeley, to Secretary of State Dean Acheson about the Department of State getting involved in transferring the Korean collections to either Japan or the United States during the Korean War; newspaper article about Knez's Korean art collection and his role in transferring the National Collection to Pusan; newspaper article about the Korean art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a photograph of Jiae Choi [Knez], 1958; newspaper photograph of Kim, Chewon; newspaper article on the opening of the first Korean Trade Center, New York City, with photograph of Jiae Choi, 1958; newspaper articles on the Hunter College Korean art exhibition arranged by Knez with photographs of him and Jiae Choi, 1956.