Museum staff
Ruth H. Gebhard
fl. 1926
Museum staff member, active in 1926. Worked for Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Life and work
- 25 June 1926Wrote on behalf of the Metropolitan Museum to W. J. Woodhouse, honorary curator of the Nicholson Museum, that the Museum was selling part of its Cesnola collection of Cypriot glass, pottery, terracottas and limestone heads, from the Early Bronze Age to Roman; no price list, prices from about $2 for a small glass tear-bottle to $300-400 for a large limestone head
New YorkBarker & Merrillees 2017, p. 56
- 23 November 1926Woodhouse replied citing her letter and offering GBP 60 raised from Museum friends for a selection of small Cypriot pieces (her letter was sent at the instance of Arthur S. Riggs of 'Art and Archaeology')
Connections
1 personScholarship
- 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.