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{{short description|Armenian-American archeologist, connoisseur of art and collector}}
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[[File:Kevorkian Vase from Rey, Iran.jpg|thumb|Polychrome painted vessel with marching camels and lion handles.  A Kufic inscription surrounds the rim.  Found at Rhages, the ancient Median city of Rhei.  Probably 11th Century AD.  Purchased from H. Kevorkian, 1915. Courtesy of the Penn Museum, image no. 296835, object no. NEP90.]]
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'''Hagop Kevorkian''' ({{lang-hy|Յակոբ Գեւորգեան}}; born in 1872 in Kayseri, [[Ottoman Empire]] – died in 1962 in New York, US) was an [[Armenian-American]] archeologist, connoisseur of art, and collector, originally from [[Kayseri]], who graduated from the American [[Robert College]] in [[Istanbul]], settled in [[New York City]] in the late 19th century, and helped America acquire a taste for Eastern artifacts.
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| alt = A monochromatic oil painting of Hagop Kevorkian by Robert Honegger
| caption = Hagop Kevorkian by Robert Honegger
| native_name = Յակոբ Գէորգեան
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| birth_date = 1872
| birth_place = [[Kayseri]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
| death_date = {{Death date|1962|02|10|}}
| death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]]
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[[File:Kevorkian Vase from Rey, Iran.jpg|thumb|[[Polychrome]] painted vessel with marching camels and lion handles;  a [[Kufic]] inscription surrounds the rim; found at Rhages, the ancient Median city of Rhei; probably 11th century AD; purchased from H. Kevorkian, 1915; courtesy of the Penn Museum, image no. 296835, object no. NEP90]]
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'''Hagop Kevorkian''' ({{langx|hy|Յակոբ Գէորգեան}}; 1872 – 1962) was an Armenian-American archeologist, connoisseur of art, and collector. Originally from [[Kayseri]], and a graduate of the American [[Robert College]] in [[Istanbul]], he settled in [[New York City]] in the late 19th century, and was responsible for drawing greater attention to Near Eastern and Islamic artifacts in the United States.


==Career==
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He carried out excavations in [[Iran]], at Sultanabad from 1903 and at the medieval city of [[Rey, Iran|Rey]] from c. 1907, and assembled an outstanding collection of Oriental art, especially Islamic and Persian. He organized the exhibition of Islamic ceramics in London in 1911. The works excavated under his supervision were shown in New York in 1914. Major sales of Islamic pieces from his collection, including lacquer doors and tile panels from Isfahan, books and paintings, carpets and ceramics, were held in the 1920s at the Anderson Gallery, New York. In 1929 he acquired at auction the Mughal album of calligraphy and painting that became known as the '''Kevorkian Album'''. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. now hold elements of the Kevorkian Album in their collections.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Kevorkian, Hagop in The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture|last=|first=|publisher=Oxford Islamic Studies Online|year=2009|isbn=|editor-last=Bloom|editor-first=Jonathan M.|editors=|location=Oxford|pages=|editor-last2=Blair|editor-first2=Sheila S.|doi = 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T046367}}</ref> An auction of some of his collection occurred in 1970 at the [[Parke-Bernet]] Galleries.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 9, 1970 Auction|last=Parke-Bernet Galleries|publisher=|year=1970|isbn=|location=New York City|pages=}}</ref>
Kevorkian carried out excavations in [[Persia]], in Sultanabad from 1903 and at the medieval city of [[Rey, Iran|Rey]] from around 1907, and assembled an outstanding collection of [[History of Asian art|Oriental art]], especially [[Islamic art|Islamic]] and [[Persian art|Persian]]. He organized the exhibition of Islamic ceramics in London in 1911. The works excavated under his supervision were shown in New York in 1914. Major sales of Islamic pieces from his collection, including lacquer doors and tile panels from [[Isfahan]], books and paintings, carpets and ceramics, were held in the 1920s at the Anderson Gallery, New York.


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In 1929 he acquired at auction the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] album of [[calligraphy]] and painting that became known as the '''Kevorkian Album''', now renamed "The [[Shah Jahan]] Album" by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (rather confusingly, as there is at least one other album called this). The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the [[Freer Gallery of Art|Freer Gallery]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] now hold elements of the Kevorkian Album in their collections.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Kevorkian, Hagop in The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture|publisher=Oxford Islamic Studies Online|year=2009|editor-last=Bloom|editor-first=Jonathan M.|location=Oxford|editor-last2=Blair|editor-first2=Sheila S.|doi = 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T046367}}</ref> An auction of some of his collection occurred in 1970 at the [[Parke-Bernet]] Galleries.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 9, 1970 Auction|last=Parke-Bernet Galleries|year=1970|location=New York City}}</ref>
The Brooklyn Art Museum's Kevorkian Gallery displays the Assyrian reliefs he donated to the institution. In New York, after Kevorkian's death, his foundation established the ''Kevorkian Chair of Iranian Studies'' at [[Columbia University]].


In a study of the commodification of Islamic antiques and their entry into museum collections, Mercedes Volait identified Hagop Kevorkian as one of a set of "renowned Armenian art dealers in Paris" which also included Dikran Khan Kelekian (1868-1951), and Antoine Brimo of [[Aleppo]] (1872-1862). She argued that Kevorkian and others shifted the trade in Islamic antiquities from Damascus and Cairo to Paris, London and New York, while enabling the entry of objects into collections at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], the [[Louvre]], the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], and more.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Volait|first=Mercedes|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1242019652|title=Antique dealing and creative reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890 : intercultural engagements with architecture and craft in the age of travel and reform|year=2021|isbn=978-90-04-44988-6|location=Leiden|pages=21, 89|oclc=1242019652}}</ref>
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[[New York University]] has a center named after him that houses its Middle Eastern studies department and library.<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/ The Hagop Kevorkian Center]</ref> The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University was created in 1966 to foster the interdisciplinary study of the modern and contemporary Middle East and to enhance public understanding of the region.<ref>[http://www.nrcweb.org/viewNRC.aspx?nNRCID=38 The Hagop Kevorkian Center, National Resource Centers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727132505/http://www.nrcweb.org/viewNRC.aspx?nNRCID=38 |date=2011-07-27 }}</ref>


===Philanthropy===
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He was a major benefactor of the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]]. Ninety-nine objects in the Penn Museum collections came from Kevorkian, either through purchase or, later, donation. He established a fund, the Kevorkian Fund, in the 1950s, which funded the expeditions of the [[University of Pennsylvania]] to [[Teppe Hasanlu|Hasanlu]], a site in northwest Iran inhabited from the 6th millennium BC, which Dr. Robert J. Dyson, Jr., excavated. After his death the Kevorkian Fund also supported a visiting lectureship in Iranian art and archaeology and an international speaker series at the Penn Museum.<ref>{{Citation|chapter=Kevorkian, Hagop|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t046367|title=Oxford Art Online}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=2018|title=Ralph Minasian and the Hagop Kevorkian Fund|url=|journal=Expedition|volume=60:1|pages=102|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/expedition-news-summer-1968/|title=Expedition Magazine|date=1968|website=https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/expedition-news-summer-1968/|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref>
The [[Brooklyn Museum|Brooklyn Art Museum]]'s Kevorkian Gallery displays the [[Assyrian sculpture|Assyrian reliefs]] he donated to the institution.

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After Kevorkian's death, his foundation established the Kevorkian Chair of Iranian Studies at [[Columbia University]]. [[New York University]] has a center named after him that houses its Middle Eastern studies department and library.<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/ The Hagop Kevorkian Center]</ref> The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University was created in 1966 to foster the interdisciplinary study of the modern and contemporary Middle East and to enhance public understanding of the region.<ref>[http://www.nrcweb.org/viewNRC.aspx?nNRCID=38 The Hagop Kevorkian Center, National Resource Centers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727132505/http://www.nrcweb.org/viewNRC.aspx?nNRCID=38 |date=July 27, 2011 }}</ref>

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He was a major benefactor of the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]]. Ninety-nine objects in the Penn Museum collections came from Kevorkian, either through purchase or, later, donation. He established a fund, the Kevorkian Fund, in the 1950s, which funded the expeditions of the [[University of Pennsylvania]] to [[Teppe Hasanlu|Hasanlu]], a site in northwest Iran inhabited from the 6th millennium BC, which Dr. Robert J. Dyson Jr., excavated. After his death the Kevorkian Fund also supported a visiting lectureship in Iranian art and archaeology and an international speaker series at the Penn Museum.<ref>{{Citation|chapter=Kevorkian, Hagop|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t046367|title=Oxford Art Online}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2018|title=Ralph Minasian and the Hagop Kevorkian Fund|journal=Expedition|volume=60|issue=1 |pages=102}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/expedition-news-summer-1968/|title=Expedition Magazine|date=1968|website=penn.museum |access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>


== References ==
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==External links==
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*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/114935/rec/401 The Emperors' album: images of Mughal India], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material collected by [[Kevorkian]]
*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/114935/rec/401 The Emperors' album: images of Mughal India], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material collected by Kevorkian


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Hagop Kevorkian
Յակոբ Գէորգեան
Born1872
Kayseri, Ottoman Empire
Died(1962-02-10)February 10, 1962
Paris, France
Polychrome painted vessel with marching camels and lion handles;  a Kufic inscription surrounds the rim; found at Rhages, the ancient Median city of Rhei; probably 11th century AD; purchased from H. Kevorkian, 1915; courtesy of the Penn Museum, image no. 296835, object no. NEP90

Hagop Kevorkian (Armenian: Յակոբ Գէորգեան; 1872 – 1962) was an Armenian-American archeologist, connoisseur of art, and collector. Originally from Kayseri, and a graduate of the American Robert College in Istanbul, he settled in New York City in the late 19th century, and was responsible for drawing greater attention to Near Eastern and Islamic artifacts in the United States.

Career

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Kevorkian carried out excavations in Persia, in Sultanabad from 1903 and at the medieval city of Rey from around 1907, and assembled an outstanding collection of Oriental art, especially Islamic and Persian. He organized the exhibition of Islamic ceramics in London in 1911. The works excavated under his supervision were shown in New York in 1914. Major sales of Islamic pieces from his collection, including lacquer doors and tile panels from Isfahan, books and paintings, carpets and ceramics, were held in the 1920s at the Anderson Gallery, New York.

In 1929 he acquired at auction the Mughal album of calligraphy and painting that became known as the Kevorkian Album, now renamed "The Shah Jahan Album" by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (rather confusingly, as there is at least one other album called this). The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. now hold elements of the Kevorkian Album in their collections.[1] An auction of some of his collection occurred in 1970 at the Parke-Bernet Galleries.[2]

In a study of the commodification of Islamic antiques and their entry into museum collections, Mercedes Volait identified Hagop Kevorkian as one of a set of "renowned Armenian art dealers in Paris" which also included Dikran Khan Kelekian (1868-1951), and Antoine Brimo of Aleppo (1872-1862). She argued that Kevorkian and others shifted the trade in Islamic antiquities from Damascus and Cairo to Paris, London and New York, while enabling the entry of objects into collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and more.[3]

Philanthropy

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The Brooklyn Art Museum's Kevorkian Gallery displays the Assyrian reliefs he donated to the institution.

After Kevorkian's death, his foundation established the Kevorkian Chair of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. New York University has a center named after him that houses its Middle Eastern studies department and library.[4] The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University was created in 1966 to foster the interdisciplinary study of the modern and contemporary Middle East and to enhance public understanding of the region.[5]

He was a major benefactor of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Ninety-nine objects in the Penn Museum collections came from Kevorkian, either through purchase or, later, donation. He established a fund, the Kevorkian Fund, in the 1950s, which funded the expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania to Hasanlu, a site in northwest Iran inhabited from the 6th millennium BC, which Dr. Robert J. Dyson Jr., excavated. After his death the Kevorkian Fund also supported a visiting lectureship in Iranian art and archaeology and an international speaker series at the Penn Museum.[6][7][8]

References

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  1. ^ Bloom, Jonathan M.; Blair, Sheila S., eds. (2009). Kevorkian, Hagop in The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Oxford: Oxford Islamic Studies Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T046367.
  2. ^ Parke-Bernet Galleries (1970). Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 9, 1970 Auction. New York City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Volait, Mercedes (2021). Antique dealing and creative reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890 : intercultural engagements with architecture and craft in the age of travel and reform. Leiden. pp. 21, 89. ISBN 978-90-04-44988-6. OCLC 1242019652.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ The Hagop Kevorkian Center
  5. ^ The Hagop Kevorkian Center, National Resource Centers Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Kevorkian, Hagop", Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003, doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t046367
  7. ^ "Ralph Minasian and the Hagop Kevorkian Fund". Expedition. 60 (1): 102. 2018.
  8. ^ "Expedition Magazine". penn.museum. 1968. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
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