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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.
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 Brooklyn Art Museum's Kevorkian Gallery displays the Assyrian reliefs he donated to the institution. At the [[University of Pennsylvania]] a visiting lectureship attests to the joint excavations he undertook in [[Turkey]] during the 1930s. In New York, after Kevorkian's death, his foundation established the ''Kevorkian Chair of Iranian Studies'' at [[Columbia University]].
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]].


[[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>
[[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>

He was a major benefactor of the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]]. He gave or obtained 99 objects in the Penn Museum collections. 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|title=Kevorkian, Hagop|date=2003|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t046367|work=Oxford Art Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=2019-02-18}}</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>


== References ==
== References ==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[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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Revision as of 14:58, 18 February 2019

Hagop Kevorkian (Template:Lang-hy; 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.

He carried out excavations in Iran, at Sultanabad from 1903 and at the medieval city of 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 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.

New York University has a center named after him that houses its Middle Eastern studies department and library.[1] 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.[2]

He was a major benefactor of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He gave or obtained 99 objects in the Penn Museum collections. 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.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ The Hagop Kevorkian Center
  2. ^ The Hagop Kevorkian Center, National Resource Centers Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Kevorkian, Hagop", Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003, retrieved 2019-02-18
  4. ^ ""Ralph Minasian and the Hagop Kevorkian Fund"". Expedition. 60:1: 102. 2018.
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