gordon.coale
 
Home
 


Weblog Archives

   
 
  Sunday  March 2  2008    09: 58 AM

photography

The Gertrude Bass Warner collection, 1903-1929.


Gertrude Bass Warner (1863–1951) was a wealthy American woman who fell in love with Asia. She first traveled there in 1904, married an American engineer in Shanghai, and spent the rest of her life collecting, studying, and promoting Asian art and culture. She was instrumental in building Asian programs at the University of Oregon, in addition to founding the art museum to house the Murray Warner Collection of Asian Art. Mrs. Warner traveled extensively to build her collection, to study, to learn about museum construction and management, and to promote multiculturalism and appreciation for Asian culture.


[more]

  thanks to wood s lot