LAWRENCE M. BERMAN
Lawrence M. Berman has been Assistant Curator of Ancient Art
at the Cleveland Museum of Art since 1993, having joined the Department
of Ancient Art as Curatorial Assistant in 1988. He has been planning and
working on the catalogue for the exhibition
Pharaohs: Treasures of
Egyptian Art
from the Louvre since early 1994. He is also currently
working on a catalogue of the Cleveland museum's Egyptian collection of
some five hundred objects, mostly unpublished; this catalogue is
tentatively scheduled to be published in 1997.
Earlier in his position in Cleveland, Dr. Berman edited The Art of
Amenhotep III: Art Historical Analysis, a volume of papers presented at
an international symposium held at the museum in 1987. He worked with
Curator of Ancient Art Arielle P. Kozloff and Egyptologist professor
Betsy M. Bryan of Johns Hopkins University on the landmark 1992
exhibition and catalogue, Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and
His World, which subsequently traveled to the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort
Worth, Texas, and the Grand Palais, Paris, and won Apollo magazine's
award for best exhibition of the year.
Active in international scholarship in Egyptology, Dr. Berman has
delivered papers on various Egyptological topics in scholarly
conferences in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Berman earned his B.A. in history from the State University of
New York at Binghamton in 1975. At Yale University, in the Department
of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, he earned his M.A. in 1978,
an M.Phil. in 1979, and his doctorate in 1985. In 1987, a fellowship from
the American Research Center in Egypt enabled him to travel for a year
in Egypt, continuing work on the topic of his dissertation, the monuments
and inscriptions of the reign of the Twelfth Dynasty king Amenemhet I
(ca. 1938-1908 BC).
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