Moes, Robert
Biography
Asian Art Department Curator November 1973 - June 1988.
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Memos: Director, 1973
Memos regarding donors, including Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kahn, Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Baekeland; curatorial position; volunteers; "Foreigners in Japan" exhibition; objects, including Roho six-fold screen painting "The Red Cliff," Erickson collection; objects, including loans, transportation, inquiries, repairs, purchases; funding; plans, including five-year plan for department, long-term objectives; procedures; meetings; budget. Letter regarding object.
Memos: Director, 1974
Memos regarding objects, including loans, transportation, Erickson collection; "Treasures of Japanese Painting from the C. D. Carter Collection" exhibition; budget; expenses; pending legislation on UNESCO Convention prohibiting illicit transport of cultural property; procedures; staff vacations. Letters from Alastair B. Martin regarding Shosoin textiles; Paul E. Manheim regarding Espy screen; Harold P. Mueller for Mr. Martin. Deed of gift from Alastair B. Martin.
Memos: Director, 1975
Memos regarding travel; budget; meetings; acquisition funding; security; proposed exhibitions; staff promotions; donors, including Arthur M. Sackler; loans; administrative organization; procedures; object withdrawal. Report on proposed uses of department funds. Letters regarding Arthur M. Sackler collection.
Memos: Director, 1976-1977
Memos regarding meetings; travel; gifts; procedures; exhibitions, including "Himalayan Artist Today, Wangyal of Dolpo," "The Physician as Potter," "Mountains of the Mind" (C. C. Wang), "Along the Tokaido" (Utagawa Kunioshi); donors, including Carl Selden, Minnie Nathanson, Irwin Rothman, Joseph Love, Joseph Carroll; loans; work order. Letters, including from Lois Katz of Arthur M. Sackler Foundation. Lists, including purchases; Hu-Hsien peasant paintings. Department utilization survey.
Memos: Director, 1982
Memos regarding exhibitions; administration; objects, including purchase recommendations, cataloging; events; loans; Arthur M. Sackler collection; Joseph V. McMullan estate; Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture research grant for terracotta exhibition. Vouchers for objects purchased: "Crows and Bare Willow" pair of 6 panel screens from Robert Ellsworth; "Peonies" hanging scroll painting from Leighton Longhi; "Dragon in Clouds" Korean folk painting from Klaus F. Naumann.
Memos: Director, 1983
Letters, memos regarding exhibitions proposed and offered, including "Light of Asia"; financial gift; loans, including Ernest Erickson objects; installation; administration; Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture and Festival of India programs; Joseph V. McMullan bequest; National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant and research consultant. Proposal for installation of Chinese galleries. Note regarding gift acknowledgments.
Memos: Director, 1984
Letters, memos regarding objects, including damage, loans, repairs; exhibitions, including "From Indian Earth," "Light of Asia"; administration; collection, including Ernest Erickson objects; installation; funding.
Memos: Director, 1985-1989
Letters, memos regarding installation; exhibitions; donor (Mrs. Wilkinson); administration; objects, including Paul E. Manheim loans; staffing; Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture and "From Indian Earth" exhibition. Checklist: tentative selection for "From Indian Earth." Notes.
Memos: ECAMEA, 1973-1990
Letters, memos regarding objects, including transfers between departments, offers; inquiries; recommendations; terracotta, including bibliography; administration; symposium. Purchase recommendation. Invitations.
Memos: Financial, 1983-1992
Letters, memos regarding grants, including National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); staffing; Kevorkian Foundation; accounts; funds, including expenditures, contributions, income; transfers; budget; objects, including sale and purchase of Kashmir bronze, "Botanical Study of a Lily." Vouchers, invoices for Chinese silver saddle ornaments; Indian Lakshmi-Narayana sculpture from Sotheby's. Sale receipts from Christie's.