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Daughter of Dogan and Layika (Hilmi) Aka. came to the United States, 1956. Translations panel National Endowment for Humanities, 1978.
Member master jury The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1989, advisory county Textile Museum, since 1991. Articles taken from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be accessed on Wikipedia's Draft Namespace.
Education
Bachelor, American College for Girls, Istanbul, 1956.
Mamluk art research grantee Smithsonian Institution, 1977-1981; recipient Fulbright Islamic Civilization Research award, 1982-1983, Grand award Republic of Turkey, 1987, TUTAV award Foundation Turkish Culture, 1988, Fulbright Research award, 1992-1993; Smithsonian Institute scholar, 1991-1992. Bachelor, Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, 1958.
Connections
Married Taskin Atil, September 10, 1959.
- Father:
- Dogan Aka
- Mother:
- Layika (Hilmi) Aka
- Spouse:
- Taskin Atil
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Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Karadeniz University, Trabzon, Turkey.Career
Assistant in Turkish language department Near Eastern languages and literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1960-1961; teaching fellow department history art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1967-1968; research library, Tippetts-Abbott-McCarthy-Stratton, New York City, 1961-1963; curator, Queens College, New York City, 1963-1966; curator Islamic art, Freer Gallery Art, Washington, 1970-1985; guest curator, National Gallery Art, Washington, 1985-1987; head exhibitions programs and collection management, Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery Art, Washington, 1987-1989; historian Islamic art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery Art, Washington, since 1989. in 1969 with a thesis titled Surname-i Vehbi: An Eighteenth Century Ottoman Book of Festivals under the supervision of Oleg Grabar. After earning her Ph. D. in Islamic Art and her Master's in Islamic Art at the University of Michigan.
Career
Subsequent to her graduation, Atıl was appointed in 1970 to the position of the curator of Near Eastern Art at the Freer Gallery of Art (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. Until her retirement in 1993, she remained in charge of the Islamic art collections of the Freer Gallery and, after its founding in 1987, of the Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery. Atıl received her Ph.D.
Background
Atil, Esin was born on June 11, 1938 in Istanbul, Turkey. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Bosporus University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received a second BA degree from the Western College for Women in 1958 and went to graduate-level studies at the University of Michigan.
she received honorary doctorates from Bogazici and Karadeniz Universities in Turkey.
The Turkish Cultural Foundation celebrates Dr. Esin Atil's devotion to Islamic Art and the contributions she has made to researching art pieces such as ceramics.
To learn more about Dr. Atil's legacy, please click the link provided: http://bit.ly/2TxnU7W
Esin Atil
researcherIslamic art historian
Esin Atil, American Islamic art historian, researcher.
Dr. Atil devoted her life to Islamic art, from writing works such as "The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificient" to serving as an Islamic Art historian at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, two Smithsonian museums dedicated to Asian art.
Dr.
The Turkish Cultural Foundation is saddened to announce the passing of a prominent art scholar, Dr.
Esin Atil, who passed away on the 20th of February 2020.
Esin Atıl
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| Born | (1937 -06-11)June 11, 1937 |
| Died | February 20, 2020(2020-02-20) (aged 82) |
| Nationality | Turkish-American |
| Citizenship | Turkey, United States of America |
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Esin Atıl (June 11, 1937 - February 20, 2020) was a Turkish-American historian of Islamic art and curator of Islamic art at the Freer Gallery of Art.
Education
Esin Atıl graduated from the American College for Girls in Istanbul 1956 with BA degree. Master of Arts, University Michigan, 1960.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1969. Esin Atil also wrote other works such as the Oriental Ceramics the World's Greatest Collections: Freer Gallery of Art (1975) and edited Turkish Art (1980).