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

Bai, Qianshen. “Notes on Fu Shan's Selections from the Zuozhuan Calligraphy Album." Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 61 (2002): 5–25.

Barnhart, Richard M. “Chinese Calligraphy and Painting: The Jeanette Shambaugh Elliott Collection at Princeton.” Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University 38, no. 2 (1979).

Ching, Dora C. Y.; Robert E. Harrist, Jr.; and Cary Y. Liu. “The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection.” Orientations 30, no. 3 (1999): 97–105.

Erdberg, Eleanor von. _Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter. _Supplementum XXXV. Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae, 1978. With appendix by Alexander C. Soper.

Far Eastern Culture and Society, Princeton University Bicentennial Conferences, ser. 2, conference 7 (Princeton, 1947).

Fong, Wen C. “Buddha on Earth and in Heaven.” Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University 13, no. 2 (1954): 38–61.

Fong, Wen C. “Sparrow on an Apple Branch by Ch'ien Hsüan.” Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University 19, no. 1 (1960): 17–20.

Fong, Wen C., et al. 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. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1984. With contributions by Alfreda Murck, Shou-chien Shih, Pao-chen Ch'en, and Jan Stuart.

Fu, Marilyn W. “Hsien-yü Shu’s Calligraphy and His Admonitions Scroll of 1299.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1983.

Fu, Shen C.Y. “Huang T'ing-chien's Calligraphy and His Scroll for Chang Ta-t'ung: A Masterpiece Written in Exile.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1976.

Fu, Shen, and Marilyn Fu. Studies in Connoisseurship: Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections in New York, Princeton and Washington, D. C. Princeton: Trustees of Princeton University, 1973.

Harrington, Lisa A. “Pottery and Porcelain from the Museum Collections: Chinese Export Porcelain Catalog.” A.B. thesis, Princeton University, 1977.

Harrist, Robert E., Jr., and Wen C. Fong. The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1999. Contributed essays by Qianshen Bai, Dora C. Y. Ching, Chuan-hsing Ho, Cary Y. Liu, Amy McNair, Zhixin Sun, and Jay Xu.

Hartman, Joan M. “The New Oriental Gallery at Princeton,” Oriental Art 12, no. 4 (1966): 245–50.

Hawkins, Robert B. “A Statue of Kuan-yin: A Problem in Sung Sculpture.” Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University 7, no. 1 (1953): 3–36.

Hughes, Michael C. The Blair Bequest: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum. Baltimore: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, 2002.

Jiang Yihan. “Zhao Mengfu shu Huzhou Miaoyansi juan” (Zhao Mengfu calligraphy Record of the Miaoyan Monastery). _Gugong jikan _10, no. 3 (Spring 1976): 59–81.

[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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Jiang Yihan. “Pulinsidun daxue meishuguan cang Wang Yangming san zha juan” (Three letters by Wang Yangming in the Princeton University Art Museum). Mingbao yuekan 10, no. 1 (January 1975): 58–65.

Kent, Richard K. “Ding Yunpeng's Baimiao Lohans: A Reflection of Late Ming Lay Buddhism.” Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 63 (2004): 63–89.

Kent, Richard K. “The Sixteen Lohans in the Pai-miao Style: From Sung to Early Ch'ing.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, June 1995.

Liu, Cary Y. “Embodying Cosmic Patterns: Foundations of an Art of Calligraphy in China,” Oriental Art, 46, no. 5 (2000): 2–9.

Liu, Cary Y., "Li Gongnian, Winter Evening Landscape," cat. entry in Masterpieces of Chinese Painting, 700–1900, ed. Zhang Hongxing (London: Victoria & Albert Publishing, 2013), pp. 172–73.

Liu, Cary Y., "Presence and Remembrance: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu," Princeton University Art Museum Record 68 (2009): 47–59.

Liu, Cary Y. “Seeing Double: Copies and Copying in the Arts of China.” Orientations 32, no. 3 (2001): 154.

Liu, Cary Y., "Strangers in a Strange Land: From the Qing Palaces to the Princeton University Art Museum," in Willow Weilan Hai Chang, Yang Renkai, David Ake Sensabaugh, et al., The Last Emperor's Collection: Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy from the Liaoning Provincial Museum (New York: China Institute, 2008), pp. 299–324.

Liu, Cary Y., and Dora C. Y. Ching, eds. Arts for the Sung and Yuan: Ritual, Ethnicity, and Style in Painting. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1999. Includes papers by Richard Barnhart, Patricia Ebrey, Yu Hui, Scarlett Jang, Cary Y. Liu, Julia K. Murray, and Hong Zaixin.

Liu, Cary Y., Dora C. Y. Ching, and Judith G. Smith, eds. Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1999. Includes papers by Hua Rende, Uta Lauer, Huiwen Lu, Harold Mok, Michael Nylan, Shih Shou-ch'ien, Peter Sturman, and Eugene Wang. Second prize winner in the books category in the 2000 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition.

Liu, Cary Y., Michael Nylan, Anthony Barbieri-Low, et al., Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines.” Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2005.

[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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Mote, Frederick W., and Hung-lam Chu, with the collaboration of Ch'en Pao-chen, W. F. Anita Siu, and Richard Kent. Calligraphy and the East Asian Book, special catalogue issue of the Gest Library Journal 2, no. 2 (1988).

[Murck, Alfreda. “The Meaning of the Eight Views of Hsiao-Hsiang: Poetry and Painting in Sung China.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1995.

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Murck, Alfreda. “Wang Shih-shen's Asking for Snow Water: Tributes to a Tea Drinker.” Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 2 (1978): 2–31.

Murck, Christian F., ed. Artists and Traditions: Uses of the Past in Chinese Culture. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976. Contributed essays by Richard Barnhart, James Cahill, Richard Edwards, Wen C. Fong, Wai-kam Ho, Yu-kung Kao and Tsu-lin Mei, James J. Y. Liu, F. W. Mote, Michael Sullivan, Wei-ming Tu, Alexander C. Soper, Jonathan Spence, and Harrie A. Vanderstappen.

Murray, Julia K. “An Album of Paintings by Yün Shou-p'ing, the Recluse of Nan-t'ien.” Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): 3–25.

Osaka Shiritsu Bijutsukan, ed. Umi o watatta Chūgoku no sho: Eriotto korekushon to Sō Gen no meiseki (The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection). Tokyo: Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 2003.

Richard, Naomi Noble, ed. Rethinking Recarving: Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the "Wu Family Shrines" and Han China. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2008. Contributions from Cary Y. Liu, Michael Loewe, Lydia Thompson, Zheng Yan, Susan N. Erickson, Klaas Ruitenbeek, Jiang Yingju, Miranda Brown, Michael Nylan, Hsing I-tien, Eileen Hsiang-ling Hsu, Lillian Tseng, and Qianshen Bai.

Rowley, George. “The Morris Collection of Chinese Paintings.” Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 6, nos. 1–2 (1947): 2–3.

Rowley, George. “The Peterson Collection.” Record of The Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 1, no. 1 (1942): 3–7.

Rowley, George. Principles of Chinese Painting with Illustrations from the DuBois Schanck Morris Collection. First edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.

Shimizu, Yoshiaki. “Chinese Recluse Lin Pu Greeting a Crane: A Japanese Screen.” Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 2 (1994): 3–21.

Shimizu, Yoshiaki, and Carolyn Wheelwright, eds. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period: An Exhibition in Honor of Shujiro Shimada. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976.

Silbergeld, Jerome with Cary Y. Liu and Dora C.Y. Ching with essays by Kim Wishart, Gregory Seiffert, Michelle Lim. Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2009.

Silbergeld, Jerome and Dora C.Y. Ching, eds. Persistence | Transformation : Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing. Princeton: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, in association with Princeton University Press, 2008.

Wang Lianqi. “Zhao Mengfu xingshu Luoshen fu zhen wei jian kao” (Examining the authenticity of Zhao Mengfu’s Rhapsody on the Luo River Goddess in running-script calligraphy). Wenwu, no. 8 (2002): 78–90.

Whitfield, Roderick. “The Carter Collection.” Princeton Alumni Weekly 65, no. 18 (February 23, 1965): 10–13.