1 Exhibition catalog (includes essays and photographs)
1 Item (exhibition post card, black and white, 11 x 35 cm)
2 Photographs (color, 20 x 25 cm)
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Letters
Exhibition catalogs
Photographs
Chromogenic color prints
Correspondence
Place:
China
Canada -- Ontario -- Toronto
Date:
1986-1988
Scope and Contents:
This collection was created and collected by the late Dr. Marcus Jacobson. It consists of materials relating to contemporary Chinese artist Gu Wenda, whom Dr. Jacobson supported in Gu's early days (mid-1980s) by purchasing works and trying to interest fellow US and Canadian academics (Dr. Jacobson was a well-known neuroscientist) in Gu's works. This collection includes an original catalogue of Gu's first exhibition in North America at York University in Toronto to which Marcus contributed. Along with a few other items of similar nature including: correspondence from Gu to Dr. Jacobson, a letter from Dr. Jacobson to his art colleagues, and 2 photographs of Gu.
Arrangement:
Organized by document type: correspondence, notes, catalog, photographs.
Biographical / Historical:
Dr. Marcus Jacobson biographical note
Local Numbers:
FSA A2009.05
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Dr. Marcus Jacobson Papers of 20th Century Contemporary Artist Gu Wenda. FSA.A2009.05. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Identifier:
FSA.A2009.05
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
