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Biography

Langdon Warner, a scholar of Asian art and an archeologist, was Director of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art from 1917 to 1923.

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Warner also served as Curator of the Wilstach Collection (the Wilstach family art collection was bequeathed to the city in 1892 and custodianship was transferred to the Museum in 1917). While serving as Director of the Museum, Warner traveled extensively in Asia and was often away from the Museum.

Almost immediately after taking the job, he departed for Japan where he set about acquiring works of art that "were thought too good to lose." In Warner’s absence, E. Hamilton Bell was the Museum’s Acting Director, from December 1917 to January 1919.

When Warner left the Museum in 1923, S. W. Woodhouse became the Acting Director.

Warner was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1881. He attended Harvard University where he was introduced to the field of archeology by Rap