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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN

Photograph courtesy of Dr. Vera Michaels
direction, the JTS board of trustees initiated a touring exhibition An inveterate world traveler, Mrs. Goldman traveled extensively in
program that showcased the library’s treasures in facsimile, thereby Europe, Africa, and Asia, taking special delight in her visits to Central
allowing wider access to its resources without risk of loss or damage Asia, India, China, Korea, and Japan. She returned from every trip
to the actual works of art. Through her leadership of the JTS and her filled with joy and with the desire not only to pay a return visit to the
long association with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, she countries just visited but to expand her knowledge and understanding
oversaw the establishment of a lending program in which treasures of of those areas. In like manner, every acquisition of Chinese art sparked
Judaica from the seminary’s library are shared with the public through a desire to learn more about the piece as well as about the artist and
exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. The remarkably successful culture that created it. In short Dorothy Goldman was an exceptionally
exhibitions in the library’s Goldman gallery and the institution of intelligent woman of great learning, taste, sophistication, and dedication
the lending program with the Metropolitan Museum of Art are the who delighted in collecting but even more in using her resources to
hallmarks of her board chairmanship at JTS. support research, to advance scholarship, and to promote education.

She was also an important supporter of the Metropolitan’s Department
of Asian Art, just as she was a significant donor to the Harvard Art Robert D. Mowry
Museums, where she served on the Asian Collections Committee. In Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus,
a few instances her foundation made contributions inspired by her Harvard Art Museums, and
foreign travels, such as the grant she made to the Tongabezi Trust Senior Consultant, Christie’s
School, in Zambia, which serves underprivileged rural children.

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