Notes on Phyllis Ackerman

• Phyllis Ackerman wife of Arthur Upham Pope.
• Ackerman & Pope founded the American Institute for Persian Art and Archaeology in 1925 which later became the Asia Institute.
• In 1966 they moved the Asia Institute to The Narenjestan Palace in Shiraz Iran at the invitation of Mohammed Reza Shah The Narenjestan (Palace Museum Shiraz).
• They are interred in a mausoleum in Professor Pope Park on the banks of the Zayandeh-Rud River in Isfahan.
• Ackerman, Phyllis: Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art. NY: 1940.
• A Survey of Persian Art. Oxford University Press, 1939
• A Survey of Persian Art. Asia Institute Books, with Meiji Shobo publishers of Japan and Ekram Manafzadeh of Iran, 1964.
• Gluck,Jay and Siver, Noel. Surveyors of Persian Art: Documentary Biography of A. U. Pope & Phyllis Ackerman. Mazda Press

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