Notes on Massumeh Farhad


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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.
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