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Former Fogg Art Museum curator Stuart Cary Welch '50 donated 300 works of Islamic art to the Arthur M. Sackler Museum last week...
...pieces, about 190 are from the Rajasthan area in northeast India. James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums, said the new works make the Sackler home to the strongest collection of Rajasthani material in the country...
Although Welch said he would not have considered parting with so much of his collection as recently as a year ago, he is now eager for the Sackler to house his treasures so that students may have access to them...
...ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM...
...Founded in 1985 to hold Harvard's collection of Asian, Ancient, Islamic, and Indian art, the Sackler is the newest addition to the Harvard University Museums. The holdings contain one of the best jade collections in the country, as well an extensive representation of early Chinese bronzes (most notably a series of three ritual bells from the late Chou dynasty). Also particularly strong are the ancient Greek vases, with exquisite exa.m.ples of both red-figure and black-figure techniques. Not to be missed: the beautifully preserved and delicately painted Japanese hand-scroll depicting "The Tale of the Rat." Currently...