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Langdon Warner
American art historian
Langdon Warner (1881–1955) was an American archaeologist and art historian specializing in East Asian art.
He was a professor at Harvard and the Curator of Oriental Art at Harvard's Fogg Museum.[1] He is reputed to be one of the models for Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones.[2] As an explorer/agent at the turn of the 20th century, he studied the Silk Road.
Langdon warner biography of barack
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927.[3]
Career
Warner graduated from Harvard College in 1903 with a specialty in Buddhist art and an interest in archeology.
After several field trips to Asia, he returned to Harvard, where he taught the university's first courses in Japanese and Chinese art. The Smithsonian Institution sent him to Asia in 1913, and he spent more than a year there, but World War I interrupted his work.
In 1922 the Fogg Museum again sent him to China.