Dallas Museum Lands a Rich Trove of Islamic Art

THE NEW YORK TIMES 
By Randy Kennedy

Art from the Keir Collection: “Three Doctors in Discussion,” a
13th-century miniature from a translation of Dioscorides’s “De Materia Medica.”

TEXAS---The Keir Collection, amassed over decades in Britain by Edmund de Unger, a Hungarian real-estate magnate who died in 2011, will go to Dallas for at least 15 years beginning in May, under an unusual long-term renewable loan that will give the museum the right to lend pieces to other institutions and to make objects widely available to scholars. The agreement will instantly give Dallas, which now has only a few dozen Islamic pieces, perhaps the third most important Islamic collection in the country, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington. [link]