Bi-Folio from a Qur'an
Peasants and Nomads of the Arab World, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, October 1, 1958–February 28, 1959, no cat.
Asad J. Rustum (1897–1965), Beirut, by 1935 [1];
Purchased from Rustum, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
NOTES:
[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01/01 Director's Office Records, Paul Gardner, box 4, folder 41, 1935 Sickman purchases en route. Before Laurence Sickman assumed his role as Curator of Asian Art in June 1935, he traveled through South Asia and the Middle East on his way from China to the U.S. While in Beirut, Sickman purchased three double pages from a Qur’an from Asad J. Rustum, a professor at the American University of Beirut.
No published references known at this time.
