Creator:

Cahill, James, 1926-2014  Search this

Names:

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco  Search this

College Art Association of America  Search this

Freer Gallery of Art  Search this

Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan  Search this

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Barnhart, Richard M., 1934-  Search this

Cahill, James, 1926-2014  Search this

Fong, Wen  Search this

Fu, Shen, 1937-  Search this

Lawton, Thomas, 1931-  Search this

Ledderose, Lothar date  Search this

Lee, Sherman E.  Search this

Li, Chu-tsing, 1920-  Search this

Pope, John Alexander, 1906-1982  Search this

Sickman, L. C. S. (Laurence C. S.)  Search this

Soper, Alexander Coburn, 1904-  Search this

Vinograd, Richard Ellis date  Search this

Wang, Chi-ch'ien  Search this

Wu, Nelson Ikon, 1919-  Search this

Extent:

12 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Postcards

Manuscripts

Place:

Washington (D.C.)

Japan

Berkeley (Calif.)

China

Date:

1945-1996

Summary:

Papers created by Asian art historian, curator, and collector Dr. James Francis Cahill. Includes personal and professional correspondence and project files documenting his many publications, lectures and activities in the Asian art field. Documents span his early career at the Freer Gallery of Art, where he served as curator of Chinese art from 1957-1965, and his tenure 1965-1994 as Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content Note:

The James Cahill Papers span the years 1945 to 1996 and measures 15 linear feet. The collection includes: personal and administrative correspondence with other art historians, art dealers and collectors; lecture manuscripts and administrative material and correspondence with art museums, universities and other organizations in the Asian art community. There are also several personal letters and postcards with family friends of James and Dorothy Cahill. The folder descriptions were retained from Cahill's own folder titles and organized alphabetically within each series.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 2 series: Series 1 -- Project Files, 1945-1996 Series 2 -- Correspondence with Individuals, 1945-1996

Biographical Note:

1926 -- Born, Fort Bragg, CA 1950 -- Receives BA degree in Oriental Languages from University of California, Berkeley 1952 -- Receives MA degree in Art History from University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor Circa 1953 -- Holds a museum training fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York 1954-1955 -- Studies with Shujiro Shimada at Kyoto University in Japan on a Fulbright Scholarship 1956 -- Works with Osvald Sirén in Stockholm on his seven-volume series "Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles" Joins staff of Freer and Sackler Gallery as Curator of Chinese Art 1958 -- Receives PhD in Art History from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, working principally with Max Loehr 1960 -- Publishes first and highly influential book: "Chinese Painting." In: Treasures of Asia series, Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva, Switzerland 1960. Published also in French and German editions 1965 -- Leaves the Freer and Sackler Gallery to accept position as Professor of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley 1973 -- Goes to China as member of the Chinese Archaeological Delegation, first group of art historians to visit China from the US 1976 -- Publishes first of projected five-volume series on later Chinese paintings: "Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty" 1977 -- Visits China as chairman of Chinese Old Painting Delegation 1978 -- Publishes second of projected five-volume series on later Chinese painting: "Parting At the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty" 1978-1979 -- Accepts appointment as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard; delivers series of lectures titled, "The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting" 1982 -- Publishes "Barnhart-Cahill-Rogers Correspondence, 1981" (collection of correspondence published for colleagues) The Harvard lecture series: "The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting" published as a book, receives College of Art Association's Morey Prize for Best Art History book 1998-1999 -- Spends a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton with his wife, the art historian and artist Hsingyuan Tsao 2007 -- Former students organize 80th birthday party/symposium at Berkeley, titled: "Returning to the Shore" 2010 -- Became the 12th Recipient of the Charles Lang Freer Medal Present -- Living in Vancouver, Canada

Related Material:

The James Cahill website, http://www.jamescahill.info/ which contains digitized versions of selected unpublished papers, correspondence and personal reminisces.

Provenance:

Gift of James Cahill.

Restrictions:

Collection is closed for processing. Please contact the Archives for more information.

Rights:

Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.

Occupation:

Art historians  Search this

Topic:

Art, Japanese  Search this

Art, Chinese  Search this

Genre/Form:

Postcards

Manuscripts

Citation:

James Cahill papers, 1945-1996. FSA.A2001.11. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of James Cahill, December 12th, 2001.

Identifier:

FSA.A2001.11

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3545db6a7-d742-46c7-9bfd-604d46ac0bf3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-fsa-a2001-11