Milo C. Beach

[1][2] He graduated from Harvard College and credits the music of Ravi Shankar for garnering his interest in Indian culture.[3] He is an authority on Mughal painting of the Akbar to Shah Jahan periods and has published important catalogues on the subject including The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India 1600-1660 (Williamstown, 1978), now a classic in its field.[1][4] He supervised the opening of the Sackler Gallery and acquired loans for the opening exhibitions from the government of China, the Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, Emperor Shōwa, the Topkapi Museum, and the Hermitage Museum.[3] In 1993, Beach published his research on the British Royal Collection's 17th-century manuscript of the Padshahnama."[3] In October, 2001, Beach retired as the director of both the Sackler and the Freer Gallery of Art.