Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Contains correspondence to, from, and about Warner, from 1930 to 1950. The correspondence is mainly from William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) in Kansas City, Missouri. Some correspondence is from Yamanaka, a Japanese company that sent artifacts to Kansas City.

Overview: Langdon Warner (1881-1955) was a curator of Far Eastern Art at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum from 1923 to 1950, and was an advisor to the United States military on Far Eastern shrines and art centers in World War II. The Langdon Warner personal archive documents Warner's career as a curator, art historian, and lecturer and illustrates his roles as an authority on Asian art and culture, especially on Japanese and Chinese art and culture. The collection provides a view of United...