Notes on Julia Bailey


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Julia Bailey, Marla Mallet, and the late George W. O'Bannon at ACOR 3

I have to be very careful about what I say about Julia. She is very modest and she actually rewrote my listing of her at one point to tone it down. But after the way Stuart Cary Welch* praised her as an important Islamic scholar I think it only proper to agree with Cary. Julia is someone to watch.

*Cary Welch and I have corresponded and he frequently show a fatherly care for the best of his former students.

Julia Bailey is assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she works as an Islamicist in the Department of Asiatic Art and is responsible for Asian textiles in the Department of Textiles and Costumes. Her specialties are oriental carpets and Persian painting.
She was formerly in the Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art at Harvard's Sackler Museum at Harvard, where she mounted frequent carpet exhibitions. She has participated in the International Conference of Persian Carpets in Tehran three times in the 1990s, is a contributing editor of HALI, and is on the steering committee of the New England Rug Society.
Bailey, J. & Hopkins, M. Through The Collectors Eye: Oriental Rugs From New England Private Collections. 1991,
Julia Bailey
"Ladik Prayer Rugs" HALI 28, p. 18-25.
"A Traveler's Look At Iran Today" Santa Monica: ACOR 3, 1996.
Flowers Underfoot: Metropolitan’s Mughal Exhibition
Ames Carpet Technical Details
Bailey, Julia, Contributing Editor, Hali The International Magazine of Antique Carpet and Textile Art.
MFA - Exhibition - Poetry of the Loom: Persian Textiles
Art History at UMass Amherst: Graduate Newsletter
MFA - Exhibition - Felicities of Line: Persian and Turkish Drawings
MFA - Exhibition - Ambassadors from the East: Oriental
Harvard University Art Museums - Press releases, 1999