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1^ [L TURKEY TURKMENISTAN CASPIAN SEA XHot ^5-4^ '^td>7fi^O>.V^ TURENG TEPE •MESHHED BALKH V \ ISHAPUR GURGAN %^ HERAT klANA 7^^"''^^ RAYY KABUL ^ • QUMM AFGHANISTAN SULTANABAD OR ARAK • KASHAN IRAN SIALK GHAZNI ISFAHAN m iTCHOGA ZANBIL • PASARGADAE • SHAM! ^ • ISTAKHR • KERMAN • LASHKARI BAZAR PERSEPOLIS (TAL-I-BAKUN) • BISHAPUR SHIRAZ 55' % ARABIAN\L6E^i 3,irc YEARS OF IRANIAN ART 7000 21. GOLD BOWL. Ca. 1200-1000 B.C. 7 S-o SI YEARS OF IRANIAN ART 7000 Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution^ National Gallery of Art, WAsmNGTON, D. C. Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California 1964-1965 HUMANITIES INSTITUTE RITTER UBRARY BALDWIN-WALLACE CO! rrr BALDWIN-WALLACE COLLEGE gEREA, OHIO 44017I ' FOUR It »» y y g j/'c^^.^c'/t OJL^^s^^^^, >fy.> (^c^/t>J/.;',>» \t^f ^w.J^^y,, . \%!,.>^xf' i/i^P.O)u'jiUj\%rif ii r^ FIVE TRANSLATION The opening of the exhibition, 7000 YEARS OF IRANIAN ART, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C, is a source of great pleasure to me. During the more than one hundred years of Iranian-American relations, many a representa- tive from Iran has come to the United States, but this exhibition is undoubtedly the best cultur- al ambassador we have ever sent to our North American friends. This messenger of culture, I am sure, will be instrumental in establishing spiritual under- standing between our two nations and in bringing us closer together. The exhibition is, of course, not the first showing of Iranian art in the United States. Valuable collections of Iranian art treasures are to be found in most major U. S. museums, and numerous exhibitions of our art have been held in such cities as Philadelphia in 1926 and 1939, NewYork in 1940, 1949, and 1960, and Cincinnati in 1954, as well as the 1960 showings in Wash- ington andBaltimore. However, 7000 YEARS OF IRANIAN ART is unique because of the many rare historical objects that have been loaned by the government of Iran. I am also pleased by the loan of the Foroughi Collection. *o* Our American friends, as they acquaint themselves with Iran's ancient culture and civili- zation through this exhibition, will grasp the humanity and universality of Iran's culture, and will become aware that Iran has always provided a Hnk between the various cultures of theworld. It is my sincere hope that this great exhibition will so further the already existing intellec- tual understanding between our two countries that, with common aims, and with unity of purpose and ideals, we may build a world in which the highest of man's spiritual and moral aspirations canfind expression. MohammadRezaPahlavi SIX
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