Massumeh
Farhad is a capable woman with knowledge of art
and the ability to translate Persian. I had the
chance to hear from one of her teachers (Cary
Welch) and he showed me a very different view of
her then I had before. Next to Wheeler
Thackston at Harvard she is one of the most
important translators of Classical Persian in the
US today. Her
contribution to Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft
Awrang, A Princely Manuscript from
Sixteenth-Century Iran help to make it one of the
great books on Islamic Art.
Farhad, Massumeh, and Marianna Shreve Simpson,
"Sources for the Study of Safavid Painting
and Patronage, or Mifiez-vous de Qazi
Ahmad." Muqarnas 10 (1993): 286-91.
Farhad,
Massumeh. "An Artist's Impression: Mu'in
Musawir's Tiger Attacking a Youth." Muqarnas
9 (1992): 116-23.
Farhad, Massumeh. "The Art
of Mu'in Musawir: A Mirror of His Times." In
Persian Masters: Five Centuries of painting, ed.
Sheila R. Canby. Bombay, 1990. Pp. 113-28.
Marianna
Shreve Simpson, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan
Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely
Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.
Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art. 1997.
Asian
Traditions in Clay: The Hauge Gifts, exhibition ...
Encyclopaedia
Iranica - Gala 2001
Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of
Safavid Iran. Joint monograph with Sussan Babaie
Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe and Massumeh Farhad,
forthcoming, I.B. Tauris, 2002.
Rings
of Passion | TRIUMPH —
Sultan-Muhammad’s “The Ascent ...
BBC
News | MIDDLE EAST | Persia's crowning glory
Harvard
University Art Museums - Press releases, 1999
Farhad had the privilage and
gained the advantage of studying under Stuart Cary
Welch at Harvard.
FARHAD, Massumeh - massumeh.farhad@asia.si.edu
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2004
Massumeh Farhad Assumes New Role at the Freer and Sackler
Galleries
Freer Gallery of Art
Massumeh Farhad
WASHINGTON, DC, (amnnews.com) — Massumeh Farhad,
currently Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the
Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries, has been
appointed to a dual position there as Chief Curator and
Curator of Islamic Art.
"It is with considerable pleasure that I announce
this appointment," says Freer and Sackler director
Julian Raby. "Massumeh is known to her colleagues as
a dedicated, tireless and creative advocate, not only in
her area of expertise, but in relation to a wide range of
museum issues. Her dedication to this institution is
manifest in myriad ways and I am delighted that she has
agreed to apply her considerable talents to the role of
Chief Curator."
Massumeh Farhad was educated at Wellesley College, and
Harvard University from which she received a Ph.D. in
Islamic Art History. She was artistic director of the
Zamana Gallery, London and a Research Assistant/Associate
at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, at
the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. before
taking a post as Research and Coordinating Curator at the
Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the National
Museum of African Art. She has been Associate Curator of
Islamic Art at the Freer and Sackler galleries since 1995
and served as Coordinating Curator for the departments of
Islamic Art, and South Asian Art and Ancient Near Eastern
Art from 2000 to 2002.
Farhad has curated and co-curated innumerable exhibitions
at the Freer and Sackler galleries and at the Arthur M.
Sackler Museum at Harvard and has contributed extensively
to the scholarly literature on the subject of Islamic
art. A frequent lecturer, Farhad is fluent in German,
French, and Persian, and is on the editorial boards of
Ars Orientalis and Muqarnas. She has served as President
of the Historians of Islamic Art and is an Institutional
Trustee for the American Institute for Iranian Studies.
The Freer Gallery of Art opened in 1923 as the first fine
arts museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Founded by
collector Charles Freer, its collection of Asian art is
considered among the finest in the world. It also houses
the world's most comprehensive collection of works by
American artist James McNeill Whistler. The Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery, founded in 1987 with a collection of
masterpieces of Asian art given by Arthur M. Sackler,
explores Asia's distinctive traditions with a varied
program of exhibitions, public programs and performing
arts. Together the two museums form the national museum
of Asian art. The Freer and Sackler are in adjacent
buildings, and are administered by a single staff.
Seen on www.amnnews.com
For Further Reading:
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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