Jan Stuart is an American art historian specialising in Chinese painting, ceramics and decorative arts. She is currently the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C.[1]
Jan Stuart | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University Princeton University |
| Occupation | art historian |
| Employer(s) | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery |
| Known for | expert in Chinese painting |
Education
editBorn in New York City and raised in Connecticut, Stuart earned her BA and MA in East Asian studies at Yale University, and did a second MA at Princeton University in Chinese art and archeology.[2]
Career
editStuart worked at the Freer and Sackler Galleries for more than 20 years (1988-2006). She then took the position of Keeper of the Department of Asia at the British Museum (2006-2014). During her time at the British Museum, she was responsible for a collection of 125,000 objects, ranging from prehistoric pieces to contemporary art, a team of curators and support staff, and the creation of the Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Ceramic Studies, which houses the Sir Percival David Collection of Chinese art. She also supervised and contributed to a number of exhibitions, including The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, Xu Bing: Background Story, Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, and Ming: 50 Years That Changed China. In 2014 she returned to the Freer and Sackler Galleries, where she is currently the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C.[1][3]
Selected publications
edit- 2011 "Timely Images: Chinese Art and Festival Display", Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 167, 2009 Lectures, 2011.
- 2001 (with Evelyn S. Rawski) Worshipping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits, Washington, DC and Stanford, CA: Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in association with Stanford University Press, ISBN 08047 4262 6
- 1990 "Ming dynasty gardens reconstructed in words and images", The Journal of Garden History, 1990
References
edit- ^ a b "Jan Stuart". Freer|Sackler. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ 张健合. "Jan Stuart: curator tells stories of creativity of Chinese art". usa.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ "At Work with Artwork Discussion Series to Feature Jan Stuart | News | What's On | Princeton University Department of Art & Archaeology". artandarchaeology.princeton.edu. Retrieved 28 December 2017.