Critic / journalist · Agent
Arthur Stanley Riggs
fl. 1925–1926
Editor of Art and Archaeology, active 1925–1926.
Life and work
- 21 June 1926Wrote to H. W. Kent, Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum, passing on W. J. Woodhouse's enquiry about buying original antiquities; he had learned of the Met's duplicate sales from a New York Times item reported in Art and Archaeology the previous autumn
Washington / New YorkBarker & Merrillees 2017
- June 1926Ruth H. Gebhard of the Met replied to Woodhouse that the Museum was selling part of the Cesnola collection (prices c. $2 for a small glass tear-bottle to $300-400 for a large limestone head); she had written 'at the instance of Mr Arthur S. Riggs'
New YorkBarker & Merrillees 2017
Connections
2 peopleScholarship
- Corresponded with H. W. Kent1926
- Corresponded with William John Woodhouse1926
Sources
- 1.Craig Barker, Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriot Antiquities from the Cesnola Collections in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney”. Mediterranean Archaeology 30, 51-71.