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New: Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto
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July 12, 2008 - January 25, 2009
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For the first time since the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923, works from its American collection are shown with works from outside the museum. A series of 22 pastels of the Maine coast, known collectively as "Sea Moods" (1915-1916), by American landscape painter Dwight Tryon (1849-1925) are juxtaposed with six black-and-white photographs from the ongoing series "Seascapes" by contemporary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Although the works are separated by history and art medium, they are linked by a common subject -- the sea.
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New: Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape
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May 31, 2008 - August 24, 2008
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In this exhibition, prints and paintings depicting the scenic Yellow Mountain (Mount Huangshan or Huangshan) in Anhui province, arguably the most beautiful mountain in China, are on view. Included in the exhibition are woodblock illustrations and mountainscapes created mostly by monk-painters who either traveled to or lived in the wilderness surrounding Yellow Mountain during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. These works of art, whether done from nature or from memory, by well-known and little-recognized artists have captured the ever-changing appearance of the area.
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New: MURAQQA': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (new title)
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May 3, 2008 - August 3, 2008
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This exhibition features 82 masterpieces -- many on view for the first time in the United States -- from the renowned collection of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland, and 2 masterworks from the Freer Gallery's famed collection of Mughal paintings. These works illustrate the artists' sophistication in creating the art of the book in the early 17th century. On display in lavish imperial albums (called muraqqa' in Persian) are Mughal paintings and calligraphies commissioned by the Emperor Jahangir (reigned 1605-27) and Shah Jahan (reigned 1627-58), depicting images of the imperial family in private settings, Sufi saints and mystics, allies and courtiers, and natural history objects. Also on view are many folios -- some with full-page paintings with figural borders, others with collages of European, Persian, and Mughal works collected by the emperors. No photography permitted. Catalogue: $45
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New: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
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April 1, 2007 - through 2010
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This exhibition of approximately 200 diverse and visually striking ceramic vessels from Southeast Asia explores the migration of pots from their makers to their users. This exhibition also illuminates the dimensions of international trade that brought southern Chinese ceramics into mainland Southeast Asia and from there reaching distant markets -- from Japan to Turkey. Spanning four millennia on invention and exchange, from the prehistoric period to the present, the vessels on view were crafted for rituals, burials, domestic use, and trade. These clay pots and jars, made permanent by firing in bonfires or kilns, form the most enduring record of human activities, interactions, and ideas about form and decoration in mainland Southeast Asia.
Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/TakingShape.htm
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November 18, 1990 - Indefinitely
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A variety of materials, techniques, and motifs, which span almost six thousand years, are explored in this exhibition of 228 objects highlighting the Sackler Gallery's permanent holdings of Chinese art. The exhibition features jades and bronzes, Buddhist sculpture and wall paintings, glass, lacquerware, furniture, and paintings from the Neolithic period to the 20th century.
Web: www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/artsofchina.htm
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Last update: July 18, 2008, 09:54
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