Full Name: Wilkinson, Charles
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: United States
Subject Area(s): ancient, Early Western World, Egyptian (ancient), Mediterranean (Early Western World), and Near Eastern (Early Western World)
Institution(s): Metropolitan Museum of Art
Overview
Founder of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Wilkinson began as an assistant (copyist) to Albert M. Lythgoe in his Egyptian excavations for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sources
Tomkins, Calvin. Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2nd. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1989, p. 137.
Contributors: Lee Sorensen