Alexander Soper

He was a longtime editor of the journal Artibus Asiae and professor at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University.

He lived in Japan for some time, before returning to Princeton and earning a Ph.D. in art history in 1944.

He taught at Bryn Mawr College, and then at the Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) for more than 30 years from 1960.

His scholarship covered the breath of Asian art, ranging from Chinese and Japanese architecture to Indian Buddhist sculpture.

[1] In 1990, he became the ninth person to be awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal by the Smithsonian Institution.