Alice S. Kandell

Alice S. Kandell is an American child psychologist, author, photographer and art collector interested in Himalayan culture.

She intended on visiting Tibet after her friend Hope Cooke encouraged her but her parents declined.

At his request, she started a photograph project to illustrate how he and his wife favoured education and local businesses in Sikkim to benefit its culture.

Her private collection of Tibetan art was covered in A Shrine for Tibet: The Alice S. Kandell Collection of Tibetan Sacred Art, by Marylin Rhie and Robert Thurman, with photographs by John Bigelow Taylor.

In 2011, she donated a collection of Tibetan art to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian,[6][7] and about 300 pictures to the Library of Congress.