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Jayne, Horace Howard Furness was born on June 9, 1898 in Cape May, New Jersey, United States. Son of Horace and Caroline Augusta (Furness)Jayne.
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Horace Howard Furness Jayne
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Horace Howard Furness Jayne, American archeologist, curator. Member 1st China expedition Fogg Museum of Harvard, 1923-1924; member 2d expedition, field agent in Asia for Harvard, 1924-1925; member University of Pennsylvania Museum and British Museum expedition to University of Chaldees; Member American Philosophical Society.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1919. Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1933.
Career
With Pennsylvania Museum, 1921-1940, assistant, 1921-1923, curator Oriental art, 1923-1926, chief of Eastern Division and curator of sculpture, 1926. Director Museum of University of Pennsylvania, 1928-1940. Vice director Metropolitan Museum Art, New York City, 1941-1949.
With international broadcasting division Department State, 1949-1953, radio script editor, 1949, chief Chinese desk, 1950-1954.
Vice director Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1955-1965. With Museum Fine Arts, Saint St. Petersburg, Florida, from 1965.
Curator Oriental art Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida, until 1975.
Achievements
Membership
Member 1st China expedition Fogg Museum of Harvard, 1923-1924. Member 2d expedition, field agent in Asia for Harvard, 1924-1925. Member University of Pennsylvania Museum and British Museum expedition to University of Chaldees.
Member American Philosophical Society.
Connections
Married Henrietta M. East. Bache, 1928.
