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C.T. Loo, Inc. New York April 19, 1950

Attention: Mr. C. T. Loo
Before closing I want to say that your retirement from the art world is a distinct loss to all collectors and patrons
of art. As a matter of fact, I must confess that it leaves me a little sad whenever I think about it and recall the
pleasant hours I have spent in your company.
Mr. Loo, when I think of the service you have done in acquainting us with the true art of China in archaic
jades, bronzes, paintings and even the fabulous Ju ware, it is then that we realize the tremendous job you have
accomplished and I am sure that the entire art world is grateful to you.

With best regards

S. Junkunc, III

盧芹齋 紐約 1950年4月19日
致尊敬的盧芹齋先生：

在您退休之前，我想告訴您，您的謝幕對於所有藏家以及藝術愛好者都是一個極大的損失。坦誠而言，每當我想到此處以及我在您店裡所度過的那
些美好時光，我都會有些傷感。

盧先生，是您讓我們了解到了真正的中國藝術，從古玉器、青銅器、書畫，甚至於那舉世之珍的汝窰。對於您的付出與貢獻，我相信整個藝術界都
會對您心懷感激。

敬候籌安
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世

Throughout his lifetime, Stephen Junkunc, III worked closely with and actively supported the curators
at American museums. He retained a particularly long-standing relationship with the Art Institute of
Chicago (AIC), repeatedly loaning works from his collection to exhibitions through the 1940s-60s. Works
from the Junkunc Collection were also loaned to the seminal Ming Blue and White exhibition at The Art
Institute of Chicago, which traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1949, and to the Arts of the
T’ang exhibition of 1956, at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Junkunc’s generosity
towards American museums also extended towards bequests, with gifts from his collection now housed
in the Milwaukee Public Museum, Wisconsin, and the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida,
near his Coral Gables summer home.

在瓊肯先生的收藏之路上，他長期對美國的各大博物 城藝術博物館繼續展覽。除此外，洛杉磯歷史、科學
館提供大力支持。身為芝加哥的藏家，他自然與芝加 及藝術博物館於1956年亦與先生合作，舉辦了一個
哥藝術博物館關係緊密，並且於1940年代至1960年 唐代藝術大展。瓊肯先生對美國美術館慷慨大方，為
代之間多次出借許多心愛的藏品供其辦展。瓊肯珍藏 推廣中國文化不遺餘力，陸續捐贈藏品給密爾瓦基歷
中的藏品曾展於芝加哥藝術博物館所舉辦的極具影響 史博物館、洛伊美術館以及佛州邁阿密大學。
力的明代青花瓷大展；這個展覽於1949年又轉至費

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