Laurance Page Roberts Papers

These papers were created by museum director, administrator, and writer Laurance Page Roberts. The bulk of the collection is study material on Asian art originating from school course work during the 1930s. There are several notebooks filled with notes taken during lectures, several contain mounted photographs of Asian art works from public collections with descriptions. There are also 13 photos of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat.

Laurance Page Roberts (1907-2002) was an art historian and art administrator in New York, Rome, and Philadelphia. Roberts worked as Curator of Near and Far Eastern Art (1934-1938), then Director (1938-1942) at the Brooklyn Museum. He later went on to be Director of the American Academy in Rome (1946-1959).

FSA A2014.01

Roberts, Laurance Page

China

Japan

Asian art & culture (Unnumbered)

Box 1

Box 2

Gift of Laurance Page Roberts, 1996.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Papers

Laurance Page Roberts Papers. FSA.A2014.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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Photographs

Papers

Collection is open for research.