A Folio from a Qur'an
Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery 9, case 2, no. D as Calligraphy.
More Than Words: The Art of Calligraphy Across Asia, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 21, 2017-July 8, 2018, no cat.
With Kirkor Minassian (1874–1944), New York, by 1940-1944 [1];
Inherited by his wife, Antoinette P. Minassian (née Clark, 1874–1961), New York, stock no. P-170, 1944 [2];
Purchased from Minassian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944 [3].
NOTES:
[1] This folio was included in the Exhibition of Persian Art at the Iranian Institute, New York in 1941. Kirkor Minassian was credited as the lender. See Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 244.
[2] Statement of ownership signed by Antoinette P. Minassian in 1944, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. See also John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI, Adrienne Minassian Collection of Arabic and Persian Leaves, A98.3, box 14, stock book, p. 12-13, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file.
[3] Invoice dated August 16, 1944 from Mrs. Kirkor Minassian, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 245.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 152, (repro.).
