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Birmingham

Birmingham Museum of Art: Asia

Shows in seven galleries works of its collections of ancient art from Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Japan, Tibet, Vietnam. Address: 2000 Eighth Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama. [en]

Cincinnati

Cincinnati Museum of Art

Art from America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Website includes a few highlights from the Asian collection: works from China, Japan, and India. Address: 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH. [en]

Cleveland

Asian Odyssey

Teacher resources and lesson plans regarding China and Japan, with a great deal of material based on the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [en]

Cleveland

Cleveland Museum of Art: Asian Art

Collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and Southeast Asian art. Website includes over 500 works (illustrations and descriptions). Address: 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH. [en]

Coral Gables

Lowe Art Museum: Asian Collection

Objects in various techniques from China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia. Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic Period to the early 20th century. Indian stone sculptures, bronze miniatures from Nepal and Tibet, early Indian painting. Address: University of Miami campus, 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, Florida. [en]

Dallas

The Crow Collection of Asian Art

More than 500 paintings, objects of stone and metal, and architectural pieces (3500 BC - early 20th century AD) from China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia. Address: 2010 Flora Street, Dallas, Texas (across from the Dallas Museum of Art). [en]

Delray Beach

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

Permanent exhibition about the history of the Yamato Colony. New museum for varying exhibitions of Japanese arts and crafts. Address: 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach, Florida. [en]

Denver

Denver Art Museum: Asian Art Department

Features China, India, Japan and Southwest Asia, also includes Tibet, Nepal, and Southeast Asia. Thematic presentation of religious art and traditional folk crafts. Website includes: collection, exhibitions, programs and lectures, Asian Art Association. Address: 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, Colorado. [en]

Detroit

Detroit Institute of Arts: Asian Art

Over 2600 works, primarily from China, Japan, India, and Korea, with examples of Cambodian, Nepalese, Tibetan, Vietnamese, and Indonesian art and culture. Of exceptional quality are, for example, the lacquers from Japan, Korea, and China. Address: 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. [en]

Hanford

The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art

Founded in 1995 by Elizabeth and Willard Clark the conservation and collection, study and exhibition of Japanese art. The collection is comprised of works from the 8th to the 20th century. Address: 15770 Tenth Avenue, Hanford, California. [en]

Honolulu

Honolulu Academy of Arts: Asian Collection

Over 16,000 objects from China and Japan (including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, lacquer ware and wood-block prints), as well as pieces from Korea, Southeast Asia and India. Exceptional collection of Buddhist sculpture from the 4th - 10th century. Center for the study of Chinese art. Address: 900 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. [en]

Indianapolis

Indianapolis Museum of Art: Japanese Art

Paintings and calligraphy from the Edo period (1600-1868), hanging scrolls and screens from all of the major schools of this period. Paintings from other epochs, early Buddhist sculptures, ceramics, woodblock prints, folk arts. Address: 1200 West 38th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. [en]

Ithaca

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art: Japan

Collection, among others: hanging scrolls, handscrolls, standing screens painted by artists, old and contemporary ceramics, objects of decorative arts, more than 500 color woodcuts from the Ukiyo-e school. Address: Central & University Aves, Ithaca, New York. [en]

Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA): Japan

Separate pavilion for the Japanese Art collection, dating from around 3000 b.c. to the 20th century: ceramics, lacquer, painting, sculpture, prints. Presented on the website in 2 different sections: permanent collection, browse collections. Address: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. [en]

Los Angeles

Shin'enkan Foundation: The Etsuko and Joe Price Collection

Private foundation of Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Price, for the education and appreciation of Japanese painting from the Edo period (1603 - 1868). Over 500 art objects, mostly from this period. Website includes examples from the collection, texts on art from the Edo period, publications. [en]

Minneapolis

Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Asian Collection

Works representing 17 Asian cultures and spanning ca. 5000 years, including ancient bronzes, jade, monochrome ceramics, and furniture from China, as well as Japanese wood-block prints. Special collections include: silk textiles of the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911), Miao textiles, and surinomo prints. Collection: see Arts of Asia. Address: 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. [en]

New Orleans

Manyo'an Collection of Japanese Art

Focuses on the Edo period (1615-1868). The term "Manyo'an" was coined by Harold P. Stern (former director of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ), and means "a myriad of autumn leaves". Dr. Kurt A. Gitter began building up the collection in the 1960s. [en]

New York

Japan Society

Private, nonprofit, nonpolitical institution, founded in New York in 1907. Promotes greater understanding and cooperation between Japan and the USA. Programs in the arts, business, education, public affairs. Exhibitions (own gallery), research and publications of Japanese art. Address: 333 East 47th Street, New York. [en]

New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art

Paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, jades, lacquer, textiles, and screens from ancient to modern China, Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia. Address: 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York. [en]

Newark

Newark Museum: Asian Collections

Significant Tibetan collection, including painting, sculpture, ritual objects, dance masks, tents, headdress, and weapons. Furthermore, collections from China, India, Japan, Korea. Address: 49 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey. [en]

Philadelphia

Penn Museum

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Chinese Rotunda: large-format sculptures, frescos, cloisonné lions, reliefs. The Buddhism galleries illustrate how this religion influenced the cultures it entered, and was influenced itself. Address: 33rd & Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [en]

Phoenix

Phoenix Art Museum: Asian Collection

More than 2700 artworks from China, Japan, India, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. Chinese collections: ceramics, cloisonné (artistic goldsmithing), bronzes, paintings, calligraphy. Address: 1625 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona. [en]

Salem

Peabody Essex Museum

Founded in 1799, America's oldest continuously operating museum. Asian collections: China, Yin Yu Tang (complete Qing Dynasty house), Japan, Korea, Asian Export Art. Address: East India Square, Salem, Massachusetts. [en]

San Francisco

Asian Art Museum

Permanent collection of more than 15,000 objects spanning 6000 years and the entire Asian continent. Since 2003 located in the transformed building of the city's former Main Library. Address: Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. [en]

Seattle

Seattle Asian Art Museum

Over 7,000 objects in the collections: Japan, China, Korea, South and Southeast Asia. Address: Volunteer Park, 1400 E. Prospect Street, Seattle, WA. [en]

Washington D.C.

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

These 2 museums of the Smithsonian Institution form the National Museum of Asian Art. The Freer Gallery is home to art from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Near East. The Sackler Gallery opened in 1987 to house a gift of some 1,000 works of Asian art from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), a research physician and medical publisher from New York City. Adresses: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Avenue, SW; Freer Gallery of Art, Jefferson Drive, at 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC. [en]

 

 

 

 

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