Luce, H. Christopher

H. Christopher Luce. Henry Christopher Luce was born c. 1949 in New York City, son of Henry Luce III and grandson of Henry R. Luce, founder of Time-Life.

Luce served as a director of the Henry Luce Foundation as well as program director for public policy and the environment.

He is the author of “The Best of Photojournalism: 1, 2, 3,” and “Contemporary Chinese Painting.” He served as curator specializing in Chinese and Japanese art for The China Institute in America, The Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. From 1972 to 1980, he was chief photographer at the White House for Time Magazine.

He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology from Yale University in 1972 and studied Chinese and Japanese Art and Language at Harvard University from 1980 to1982.

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H. Christopher Luce directed The Henry Luce Foundation Program in Public Policy and the Environment from its inception until its conclusion in 2007 and sits on its board of Directors. A graduate of Yale University, he studied in the Department of Far East Asian Studies of Harvard University. He is an award-winning photojournalist, working for Time Magazine among other organizations. He has curated exhibitions in Chinese and Japanese art and American photography. Versed in Mandarin Chinese, he collects Asian painting and calligraphy, and lectures widely on the subject. He serves on boards of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Freer/Sackler Galleries of Art at the Smithsonian where he chairs the Collections Committee, is a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Asian Art Committee, and chaired the board of the China Institute in America.