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SUMMARY:Saturday University: Sherman E. Lee’s Collecting and Exhibitions of Chinese
  Art
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Saturday University\, a monthly lecture series featuring experts
  from around the world. Gain new insights on Asia throughout time as our vi
 siting scholars\, authors\, artists\, and thought leaders delve into new th
 emes each season.\nJapan\, Seattle\, and Cleveland: Sherman E. Lee’s Collec
 ting and Exhibitions of Chinese Art \nNoelle Giuffrida\nIn the decades foll
 owing World War II\, international political\, economic\, and legal changes
  affected the art market\, prompting a new wave of collecting and exhibitin
 g Chinese art in the United States. Which individuals and institutions play
 ed major roles within international networks of dealers\, collectors\, and 
 curators? Which Chinese works did postwar curators select for art museums\,
  and why? Which tax and export laws impacted the global circulation of Chin
 ese art in the 1940s through the 1970s? \nThis talk explores these question
 s by examining the activities of one of the most prominent figures of the p
 ostwar era: American curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (1918–2008)
 . Following his naval service in the Pacific theater\, Lee worked as a monu
 ments man in Occupied Japan. During his two-year stay\, he had unprecedente
 d access to study art in Japanese collections and developed an extensive ne
 twork of personal and professional relationships with Japanese collectors\,
  scholars\, and museum officials. These experiences helped to shape his col
 lecting and exhibitions of Chinese art during his years as curator and assi
 stant director at the Seattle Art Museum (1948–52) and as curator and direc
 tor of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1952–1983). \nAfter the lecture\, explo
 re our Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Conservation Center and learn more
  about how Sherman E. Lee's lasting legacy as a curator at the Seattle Art 
 Museum shapes the conservation work that SAM performs today.\nNoelle Giuffr
 ida's research focuses on Chinese art\, particularly the history of collect
 ing and exhibiting premodern works in American museums after World War II a
 nd the visual culture of Daoism in late imperial China. Her teaching and cu
 ratorial experience extend broadly both temporally—from Neolithic to contem
 porary—and cross-culturally to China\, Korea\, and Japan\, as well as to So
 uth and Southeast Asia. \nHer publications include the book Separating Shee
 p from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America 
 (University of California Press\, 2018) as well as articles and chapters in
  the Journal of Art Market Studies and Royal Taste: The Art of Princely Cou
 rts in 15th Century China. Recent curatorial projects include the special e
 xhibition Fibers of Being: Textiles from Asia in the David Owsley Museum of
  Art’s Collection (2023). Giuffrida is Associate Professor of Art History a
 t Ball State University. She earned her PhD in Asian art history from the U
 niversity of Kansas. She previously served as Associate Curator of Asian Ar
 t at the David Owsley Museum of Art and taught in the graduate art history 
 program at the Cleveland Museum of Art. \n9:30 am\nDoors Open\n10-11:15 am\
 nLecture and Q+A with lecturer\n11 am-noon\nTateuchi Conservation Center op
 en to guests. No food or drink will be allowed inside the conservation cent
 er.
LOCATION:Seattle Asian Art Museum\, 1400 E Prospect St\, Seattle\, WA 98112
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