THE NEAR EASTERN ART RESEARCH CENTER


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NEARC was founded in 1962 by the late Joseph V. McMullan (1896-1973), a New York City businessman and one of the world's foremost Islamic scholars and collectors of Islamic carpets.

Purpose

To support exhibitions, publications, study programs and other projects relating to Islamic carpets and textiles. Parameters include: specific project, rather than general, funding, and seed money not otherwise available to help get a project underway.

Organization

Board of Trustees:, NEARC affairs are conducted by a Board of Trustees composed of individuals with extensive experience in Islamic Art.

Publications of NEARC

Islamic Carpets, J.V. McMullan, 1965.

Kazak, Raoul Tschebull, 1971

Don't Forget to Smell The Flowers Along The Way - Portraits of Joseph V. McMullan, Edited by W. Russell Pickering, 1977.

A Descriptive Catalogue of Dated Rugs and of Inscribed Rugs, Donald N. Wilbur, 1989.

Windows on the Maghrib - Tribal and Urban Weavings of Morocco, Edited by Jefferson S. Hyde, Janice Harmer, Miriam Lorimer, and W. Russell Pickering, 1991.

The Treasure of The Caucasus - Rugs from American Collections, edited by Harold M. Keshishian, 1992.

Inscribed Armenian Rugs of Yesteryear, James M. Keshishian, 1994.

Moroccan Carpets, Brooke Pickering, W. Russell Pickering, and Ralph S. Yohe, 1994.

THE JOSEPH V. McMullan AWARD, Programs, Exhibitions, and Publications, Sponsored by NEARC

Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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