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Richard Harding Randall, Jr. Estate Collection

MSA SC 5814
Dates1795-1903
MediumOriginal
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Storage00/22/10/02 [Books]; 00/22/10/04 [Papers] and oversized, bottom shelf 00/22/11/
Description
Books, diaries, and sketch books belonging to the Randall family dating from the 18th century and 19th centuries.

See also MSA SC 1545-3343, Maryland House of Delegates desk used by Daniel R. Randall as Postmaster of Annapolis.

History
Richard Harding Randall, Jr. (1926-97), A native Baltimorean, was educated at the Calvert, Gilman and Pomfret schools, and spent two years with the 4th Armored Division in France and Germany. He majored in architecture at Princeton University (1948) and earned a master's degree in art history from Harvard.

. From 1953-59 he was assistant, then associate, curator of mediaeval art at the Cloisters. He next became assistant curator of decorative arts at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

Randall returned to Baltimore, where he was director of the Walters Art Gallery from 1965-81; he was curator of mediaeval art until 1985. His books and 150 articles on arms and armor, decorative arts, American furniture, and mediaeval art are considered definitive.


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