He was vicepresidentandartdirectorofGoldenBooksatWesternPublishingfrom 1952-1972, and then vice president andassociatepublisher of the juvenile division of Random House from 1972 to 1990.
Katherine Tsiang, associatedirector of the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia, spent many years travelling around the world to locate the missing sculptures and collect 3D digital images - technology that was not available when she started the project.