This exhibition celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of China Institute and marked the twentieth anniversary of China Institute Gallery, harking back to the Gallery’s inaugural exhibition in 1966, “Chinese Art from Private Collections in the Metropolitan Area.” Fifty outstanding Chinese objects on loan from some twenty private collections in the Northeast were shown, many rarely viewed publicly, including jade, ancient bronzes, wood, stone, clay and bronze sculptures, ceramics from the Neolithic period (ca. 6500–1700 BCE) through the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods, as well as hanging scrolls, album leaves, and a spectacular silk- and-metal tapestry from the late Ming dynasty.
Selections of Chinese Art from Private Collections
公诸同好
October 18, 1986–January 4, 1987
Curated by James C. Y. Watt and Annette L. Juliano
Media Coverage
- Anita Christy, “’Making Use of Pure Blessings,’ Sixty Years of the China Institute in America,” Orientations, October 1986.
“The theme, ‘sharing appreciation,’ echoes the gallery’s first formal exhibition twenty years ago, which honored individuals who have contributed to the preservation and study of art and enriched the collections of museums, while broadening public awareness of Chinese art throughout the United States.”
- Michael Brenson, “Art: Chinese Works From Private Collections,” The New York Times, January 2, 1987.
“The China Institute in America is an exhibition space known for ‘sleepers.’ In its tiny, scholarly China House Gallery, it has organized solid, low-keyed, informative exhibitions that never make spectacles of themselves and never insist upon broad critical and public attention. Robert Bergman, the director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, captured something of the spirit of the place when he wrote that the ‘China House Gallery must be the smallest exhibition space known to man in which shows of true significance are presented.’”
- Rita Reif, “Other Exhibitions Of Decorative Arts,” The New York Times, October 24, 1986.
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