Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Quick Facts

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German-American anthropologist

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American photography historian, writer, and curator

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German musicologist

Frederic Ward Putnam

American anthropologist

Edward W. Gifford

American anthropologist

Yoshio Taniguchi

Japanese architect

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

French art dealer and publisher

Adolf Bastian

German ethnologist

Victor-Charles Mahillon

Belgian music scholar

Wilhelm von Bode

German art critic

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

American architect

Kevin Young

American poet, essayist, and editor

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Chinese-born American architect

Frank Gehry

Canadian American architect and designer

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American anthropologist

Richard Meier

American architect

Norman Foster

British architect

Moshe Safdie

Israeli-Canadian-American architect

Henry Fairfield Osborn

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