Thursday, March 15, and Friday, March 16, 2012
The Center for the History of Collecting and the Rockefeller Archive Center will host a two-day symposium, The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America.
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1904.75a
Topics discussed will range from the China Trade during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; missionary collectors such as John Ferguson; Gilded-Age collectors from Boston and their passion for Chinese and Japanese art; distinguished collectors such as Laurence Sickman, who collected specifically for museums; dealers such as C. T. Loo and Joseph Duveen; John D. Rockefeller III's collecting and his relationship with his advisor Sherman Lee; and, finally, the shifting trends of collecting Chinese and Japanese art after World War II.
The keynote speaker will be Maxwell Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge of the Department of Asian Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other speakers will include William Sargent, Independent Curator, former curator of Asian export art Peabody Essex Museum; Stanley Abe, Associate Professor, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Director, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, Duke University; Christine Guth, Head, Asian Design Specialism, Royal College of Art, and Victoria and Albert Museum History of Design Programme; Daisy Yiyou Wang, Chinese Art Project Specialist,Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; Louise Cort, Curator for Ceramics,Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; Lara Netting, J. Clawson Mills Fellow, Department of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Jason Steuber, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Curator of Traditional Asian Art, Asia Society Museum; and Warren Cohen, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Michigan State University and University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Senior Scholar, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The symposium concludes with Conversation with a major collector of Chinese contemporary art.
The symposium is made possible through the generous support of the Rockefeller Archive Center and the Japanese Art Dealers' Association.
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Past Symposia
Reflections Across the Pond: British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response
New York,May 6 and 7, 2011
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A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America
New York, November 12-13, 2010
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The Collector’s Choice: Art on Display in American Private Collections
New York, March 26-27, 2010
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Holland's Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt,
Vermeer, and Hals
New York, May 15–16, 2009
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The American Artist as Collector, from the Enlightenment
to the
Post-War Era
New York, March 6–7, 2009
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Collecting Spanish Art: Spain’s Golden Age and America’s Gilded Age
New York, November 21–22, 2008
Organized by the Center in collaboration with the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, Madrid, in honor of Jonathan Brown. A publication is planned.
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Power
Underestimated:
American Women
Art Collectors
Venice, April 2008
Co-hosted by the Center and the American Studies Program, The Graduate School in Languages, Cultures and Societies, Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice.
For program information, including a list of the speakers and titles of their presentations, click here.
Turning Points: Modern Art Collecting, 1913–Present
New York, March 2008
The cause for a shift in artistic taste or a realignment
of collecting patterns at times may seem untraceable.
As one generation of collectors in the early twentieth
century placed a premium on old masters, another
favored the European avant-garde, while yet a third
focused on the work of contemporary American
artists. This symposium will identify turning points in
modern art collecting during the period initiated by the
Armory Show of 1913 and explore the socioeconomic
circumstances that made these shifts all but inevitable.
Keynote Address: To Have and To Hold
Robert Storr, Dean, Yale School of Art, Yale
University
For program information, click here.
Turning Points in Old Master Collecting, 1830–1940
New York, May 2007
In collaboration with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, whose President Marilyn Perry has offered invaluable advice and support, the Center's first symposium "Turning Points in Old Master Collecting, 1830-1940" was presented on May 19, 2007. Keynote speaker Neil Harris shaped the issues and led a discussion surrounding turning points in art collecting from 1830 to 1939 with special emphasis on changing trends in collecting old master paintings.
For more information, including synopses of the presentations, click here.
Click here for more photographs of the 2007 Symposium.
Inge Reist, Chief of Research Collections and Programs, and
Director of the Center for the History of Collecting; Linda S. Ferber, Vice President, Director of Museum Division, New-York Historical Society; Anne Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection.
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