Chinese Art, Lent by Henry H. Hart, [April]-June 10, 1932

Born in 1886 in San Francisco, Dr. Henry Hersch Hart was a prominent history scholar and anthropologist. He began his career studying law in 1909, and was appointed the Assistant City Attorney of San Francisco from 1911-1916. He would eventually become deeply interested in the culture and history of China, Japan, and Hong Kong, as well as early European explorers. Hart would become a visiting lecturer at University of California Berkeley on Chinese Art and Culture and Chinese History.

As a result of his scholarship and interest in East Asia, Hart was a world traveler, collector of art, and an excellent photographer. Among the things accumulated in Henry Hart’s study and travels are photographs of the places he visited, the people he saw, as well as a collection of postcards from all over the world. Through his many years of travels and study, Hart steadily built a collection of written observations and photographic documentation of the locales he visited. He was a scholar on the Venetian explorer Marco Polo. Hart died in 1968.

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