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has a center named after him that houses its Middle Eastern studies department and library. 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
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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
255:, 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. 153:. 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 247:. 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 93:
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.
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Antique dealing and creative reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890 : intercultural engagements with architecture and craft in the age of travel and reform
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in the late 19th century, and was responsible for drawing greater attention to Near Eastern and Islamic artifacts in the United States.
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now hold elements of the Kevorkian Album in their collections. An auction of some of his collection occurred in 1970 at the
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After Kevorkian's death, his foundation established the Kevorkian Chair of Iranian Studies at
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Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 9, 1970 Auction
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Kevorkian, Hagop in The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Armenian-American archeologist, connoisseur of art and collector
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painted vessel with marching camels and lion handles;  a
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from around 1907, and assembled an outstanding collection of
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Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the United States
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The Hagop Kevorkian Center, National Resource Centers
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Index

Kayseri
Ottoman Empire
Paris
France

Polychrome
Kufic
Armenian
Kayseri
Robert College
Istanbul
New York City
Persia
Rey
Oriental art
Islamic
Persian
Isfahan
Mughal
calligraphy
Shah Jahan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Freer Gallery
Washington, D.C.
Parke-Bernet
Aleppo
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Louvre
Victoria and Albert Museum
Brooklyn Art Museum

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