Ju jiang de jian ying Zhang Daqian 120 sui ji nian da zhan = Silhouette of a great master : a retrospective of Chang Dai-chien's art on the 120th anniversary of his birth zhu bian Liu Fangru ; wen zi zhuan shu Fang Lingguang [and three others]
Title:
巨匠的剪影 : 張大千120歲紀念大展 = Silhouette of a great master : a retrospective of Chang Dai-chien's art on the 120th anniversary of his birth / 主編劉芳如 ; 文字撰述方令光 [and three others]
Silhouette of a great master a retrospective of Chang Dai-chien's art on the 120th anniversary of his birth
Zhang Daqian 120 sui ji nian da zhan
張大千120歲紀念大展
Retrospective of Chang Dai-chien's art on the 120th anniversary of his birth
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.
James Cahill papers, 1945-1996. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 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
Hai wai yi zhen. Fo xiang. Xu = Hai-wai yi-chen, Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculputre. II / bian ji zhe Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan bian ji wei yuan hui
Title:
海外遺珎. 佛像. 續 = Hai-wai yi-chen, Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculputre. II/ 編輯者國立故宮博物院編輯委員會
Hai-wai yi-chen, Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture. II
Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture. II
Author:
Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan Bian ji wei yuan hui Search this
Physical description:
11 p., 202 p. of plates : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
Guo zhi zhong bao te zhan tu lu : Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan yu zhu jian yuan 70 zhou nian Gaoxiong shi te zhan ji sheng = Great national treasures of China : special exhibition in Kaohsiung city loaned by the National Palace Museum's seventieth anniversary / Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, Gao xiong shi zheng fu he ban ; [bian ji zhe Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan bian ji wei yuan hui]
Title:
國之重寶特展圖錄 : 國立故宮博物院預祝建院七十週年高雄市特展紀盛 = Great national treasures of China : special exhibition in Kaohsiung city loaned by the National Palace Museum's seventieth anniversary / 國立故宮博物院, 高雄市政府合辦 ; [編輯者國立故宮博物院編輯委員會]
Fu shou kang ning ji xiang tu an ci qi te zhan tu lu = Good fortune, long life, health and peace : a special exhibition of porcelains with auspicious designs / [bian ji zhe Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan bian ji wei yuan hui ; zhu zhe Yu Peijin]
Title:
福壽康寧吉祥圖案瓷噐特展圖錄 = Good fortune, long life, health, and peace : a special exhibition of porcelains with auspicious designs / [編輯者國立故宮博物院編輯委員會 ; 著者余佩瑾]
Han jing suo fan ying de shen hua chuan shuo yu shen xian si xiang / Zhang Jinyi zhu ; [bian ji zhe Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan Gu gong cong kan bian ji wei yuan hui]
Shi jiu shi ji mo qi Zhong xi hua feng de gan tong zhi er : Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan suo cang tong shi qi ming jia zuo pin zhan / [bian ji zhe Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan bian ji wei yuan hui] = Spirit resonance : Chinese and western painting styles in the late nineteenth century : Volume II, Contemporary painters from the collection of the National Palace Museum
Title:
十九世紀末期中西畫風的感通之二 : 國立故宮博物院所藏同時期名家作品展 / [編輯者國立故宮博物院編輯委員會] = Spirit resonance : Chinese and western painting styles in the late ninteenth century : Volume II, Contemporary painters from the collection of the National Palace Museum
Ming si da jia te zhan : Tang Yin / Lin Lina, Chen Jianzhi, Zheng Shufang bian ji = Four great masters of the Ming dynasty : Tang Yin / Lin Lina, Chen Jianzhi, Zheng Shufang, editors
Title:
明四大家特展 : 唐寅 / 林莉娜, 陳建志, 鄭淑方 編輯 = Four great masters of the Ming dynasty : Tang Yin / Lin Lina, Chen Jianzhi, Zheng Shufang, editors
Tuan ni huan hua : yuan cang li dai tao ci / zhu bian Yu Peijin = The magic of kneaded clay : ceramic collection of the National Palace Museum / editor, Yu Pei-Chin
Title:
摶泥幻化 : 院藏歷代陶瓷 / 主編余佩瑾 = The magic of kneaded clay : ceramic collection of the National Palace Museum / editor, Yu Pei-Chin
Magic of kneaded clay: ceramic collection of the National Palace Museum
