History of the Collection
Selected Exhibitions and Conferences
2018
Picturing Place in Japan — exhibition. Andrew M. Watsky, Caitlin Karyadi, curators, with Cary Y. Liu. In conjunction with the panel “Place Making in the Arts: Japan and Beyond,” organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum.
In the Making: The Practice of Painting in Early-Modern Kyoto — exhibition. Caitlin Karyadi, curator.
2017
Wandering through Streams and Mountains: Landscape Painting in East Asia — exhibition. Zoe S. Kwok, curator.
The Art of Calligraphy in Asia — exhibition. Zoe S. Kwok, curator.
Beauty in Miniature: Paintings from South Asia — exhibition. Zoe S. Kwok, curator.
2016
Epic Tales from India: Paintings from The San Diego Museum of Art — exhibition. Marika Sardar, curator, with Zoe S. Kwok.
Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives — exhibition. Zoe S. Kwok, curator.
Echoes of One Hand Clapping: Picturing Sound in Asian Art — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator. In conjunction with the panel “Zen Ink: Paintings by Hakuin Ekaku,” cosponsored by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art.
Gifts from the Tang Center, celebrating the 15th anniversary of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, Dora C.Y. Ching, Zoe S. Kwok, curators.
2015
Sacred Caves of the Silk Road: Ways of Knowing and Re-creating Dunhuang — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, Zoe S. Kwok, Dora C.Y. Ching, curators. In conjunction with the symposium “Visualizing Dunhuang,” organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art with the Princeton University Art Museum.
The Art of Observation in the Edo Period (1600–1868) — exhibition. Zoe S. Kwok, curator.
Three Friends – Pine, Bamboo, and Plum — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
Becoming Modern, Becoming Global: Japanese Prints from the Meiji Period (1868–1912) — exhibition. Zoe S. Kwok, curator.
2014
Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan — exhibition. Louise Allison Cort, Andrew M. Watsky, curators. In conjunction with the symposium “Chigusa in Context: In and Around Chanoyu in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Program in East Asian Studies.
Humor and Wit: Parody and Play in Japanese Painting and Prints — exhibition. Wai Yee Chiong, curator.
In the Garden: Highlights from the Chinese Art Collection — exhibition. Zoe S. Kwok, curator.
Highlights of Japanese Art — exhibition. Zoe S. Kwok, curator.
Facing a Distant China — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
2013
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
2012–2013
On Water: Waves, Dragons, and Boats in Chinese Art, I, II — exhibitions. Cary Y. Liu, curator. Organized in conjunction with ART/ARC 459: Anxious Megalopolis: Shanghai's Urban Cultures.
2012
Encounters – Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
Qian Du (1764–1844) and Style in Qing Dynasty Painting — exhibition. Michael Hatch, curator.
Materiality and Formats — exhibition. Wai Yee Chiong, curator.
2011
Multiple Hands: Collective Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Painting — exhibition. Xiaojin Wu, curator.
Divinity, Compassion, and Wrath in Japanese Religious Art — exhibition. Miraim Chusid, curator.
Immortals, Deities, and Sages in Chinese Painting — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
When Men and Mountains Meet: China as Land and People — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
2010
Green, Amber, Cream: Forgotten Art of a Ceramic Workshop in Shanxi, China — exhibition. Eileen Hsiang-ling Hsu, Cary Y. Liu, curators. In conjunction with the workshop “An Investigation of Late Imperial Liuli Glazed Ceramics,” cosponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Program in East Asian Studies.
Presence and Remembrance: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator, with Xiaojin Wu and Zoe Saunders
The Question of Landscape — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
2009
Asian Moments: Art, Documents, Photographs — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, Xiaojin Wu, curators.
Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art — exhibition. Jerome Silbergeld, curator with Cary Y. Liu and Dora C.Y. Ching. In conjunction with the symposium “ARTiculations,” Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Princeton University Art Museum, cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum.
Memorable Encounters from Hōnen to de Kooning: In Honor of Yoshiaki Shimizu — exhibition. Xiaojin Wu, curator. In conjunction with the symposium “Friends at a Brushwood Gate: A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu,” Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum.
Immortals and Icons: Buddhist and Daoist Figures and Texts — exhibition. Sinéad Kehoe, curator.
2008
Strangers in a Strange Land: Chinese Art from the Imperial Palaces — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu, curator. In conjunction with the exhibition The Last Emperor's Collection: Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy from the Liaoning Provincial Museum at the China Institute Gallery, NY.
Inhabited Landscapes: Selected Works from the DuBois Schanck Morris Collection — exhibition. Kimberly Wishart, Sinéad Kehoe, curators.
“Re-presenting Emptiness: Zen and Art in Medieval Japan” — symposium. Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum in association with the Japan Society, New York
2007
Song and Yuan Art: Masterpieces from the Museum — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu.
Japanese Views of East and West: Imprinting the Other in Meiji Eyes — exhibition. Sinéad Kehoe, curator.
2006
Worldly Guardians of the Buddhist Law: An Exhibition in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu and Sinead Kehoe, curators.
"Bridges to Heaven: A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong" — organized by the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art with support from the Blakemore Foundation, and co-sponsored with the Princeton University Art Museum, the Department of East Asian Studies, and the Department of Art and Archaeology.
Minotaur in the China Shop—From Picasso to Ni Zan: Gifts from and in Honor of Wen C. Fong and Constance Tang Fong — exhibition.
2005
Flora and Fauna in Chinese Painting II — exhibition.
Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines” — exhibition, catalogue, and international symposium. Cary Y. Liu, curator, with Michael Nylan and Anthony Barbieri-Low, curatorial consultants.
Floating above the Clouds: Mount Fuji in Japanese Prints — exhibition. Sinead Kehoe, guest curator.
2003
Recent Acquisitions in Asian Art, 1998–2003 — exhibition.
Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered — exhibition with the artists Sanford Biggers, Anne Chu, Ellen Harvey, and Zhang Hongtu. Eugenie Tsai, guest curator.
2002
Book from the Sky: A Work by Xu Bing — exhibition in conjunction with P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art conference and publication Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing (2006).
Guardians of the Tomb: Spirit Beasts in Tang Dynasty China — exhibition. Cary Y. Liu and Yang Lu, curators, with the assistance of Virginia Bower.
Immortals, Deities, and Sages in Chinese Painting: Research Exhibition — exhibition.
Japanese Woodblock Prints: Gifts of Anne van Biema — exhibition.
2001
Seeing Double: Copies and Copying in the Arts of China — exhibition and Orientations article. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
2000
Flora and Fauna in Chinese Painting — exhibition.
Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane — exhibition. Organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art. David Moos, guest curator.
1999
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: In Memory of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951 — exhibition.
_The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection _— exhibition, catalogue, international symposium, and symposium publication. Cary Y. Liu and Robert E. Harrist, Jr., curators. Also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2000), Seattle Asian Art Museum (2001), and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Japan (2003).
From Ritual Simplicity to Imperial Splendor: Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Nelson Chang, Class of 1974. Virginia Bower and Cary Y. Liu, curators.
1998
"The Art and Culture of Chinese Calligraphy: Selections from the John B. Elliott Collection, Workshop" —conference.
Landscape in the Art and Painting of Late Imperial China _— exhibition and brochure in conjunction with the _Graduate Conference Series on the Arts of China, Inaugural Session: Issues in Painting. Shane McCausland, guest curator.
1997
In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collection of Princeton Alumni and Friends of The Art Museum —exhibition and catalogue with a section on Asian art.
1996
"Arts for the Sung and Yüan: Ritual, Ethnicity, and Style in Painting" — an international symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Chinese Flower Painting: Reflections of Glory, Virtue, and Humility — exhibition and brochure. Cary Y. Liu, curator.
1995
Chinese Traditional Books: Form & Function — exhibition and brochure. Sören Edgren, guest curator .
Special Exhibition of Japanese Woodblock Prints — exhibition. Janice Katz, guest curator.
1989
Calligraphy and the East Asian Book — exhibition and catalogue. Frederick W. Mote and Hung-lam Chu, guest curators.
1984
Images of the Mind: Selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John B. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting at The Art Museum, Princeton University — exhibition and catalogue.
1982
Indian Paintings from the Polsky Collections — exhibition
1981
Tea Taste in Kyoto: 1600–1650 — exhibition. Christine Guth, curator.
1980
Chinese Calligraphy and Painting: The Jeanette Shambaugh Elliott Collection at Princeton — exhibitions and catalogue.
1976
Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period: An Exhibition in Honor of Shujiro Shimada — exhibition and catalogue. Yoshiaki Shimizu and Carolyn Wheelwright, curators.
1975
Thomas George: An American Artist in China — exhibition.
1973
Studies in Connoisseurship: Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection in New York and Princeton — exhibition and catalogue. Shen Fu and Marilyn Fu, curators.
1969
In Pursuit of Antiquity: Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse — exhibition and catalogue.
1967
Artist and Traditions: Uses of the Past in Chinese Culture — colloquium and publication.
1947
"Princeton University Bicentennial Conferences on Far Eastern Culture and Society" — international conference in conjunction with the exhibitions of Chinese art: 1) paintings from the Dubois Schanck Morris collection, 2) ritual bronze vessels from the museum and other collections, 3) ink on paper rubbings taken from engraved stones with figure representations, and 4) rare books from the National Peking Library (temporarily stored at the Library of Congress during WWII), and 5) photographs of sculpture and architecture provided by Liang Sicheng.
Selected Catalogues and Publications on the Asian Collection
Hartman, Joan M. “The New Oriental Gallery at Princeton,” Oriental Art 12, no. 4 (1966): 245–50.
[Jiang Yihan. “Zhao shi yi men he zha yanjiu” (A study of six letters of Zhao Mengfu's family), Gugong jikan 11, no. 4 (1977): 23–50, pls. 1–12 (English abstract, pp. 33–37)
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[Meyers, Coco, Paris T. Priore, and Kaatje West. “Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Colonel James A. Blair Collection at Princeton.” A.B. thesis, Princeton University, 1980.
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[Murck, Alfreda. “The Meaning of the Eight Views of Hsiao-Hsiang: Poetry and Painting in Sung China.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1995.