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Lodge, John Ellerton

    Full Name: Lodge, John Ellerton

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1878

    Date Died: 1942

    Place Born: Nahant, essex, MA, USA

    Place Died: Washington, DC, USA

    Home Country/ies: United States


    Overview

    Director of the Freer Gallery, Washington D.C. Lodge was the son of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and a great grandson of George Cabot. He studied at the Boston School and spent two years at Harvard, 1896-98. He also studied in Europe. In 1910 Lodge was appointed curator of the Department of Asiatic Art of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He married Mary Connolly. He became chairman of the committee on oriental art of the Smithsonian Art Commission in 1920. In 1931 Lodge became director of the newly founded Freer Gallery of Art, a position he held until the time of his death.


    Selected Bibliography

    and Wenley, Archibald Gibson. A Descriptive and Illustrative Catalogue of Chinese Bronzes Acquired During the Administration of John Ellerton Lodge. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1946.


    Sources

    Obituary. The New York Times. December 31, 1942; p. 15.




    Citation

    "Lodge, John Ellerton." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/lodgej/.


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