Department
of Art and Archaeology · 105 McCormick Hall · Princeton
University · Princeton, NJ 08544-1018 USA
In the spirit of collaboration with the Princeton University
Art Museum, the Tang Center dedicates funds toward the acquisition of
art work. Over the past several years, the Tang Center has contributed
toward the following works, which are all housed in the Princeton University
Art Museum.
Michael S. Cherney (Qiumai 秋麦; b. 1969)
Bounded by Mountains (Shanchongji 山重集): H3 (Dazu)
Dated 2006
Album of 11 leaves (kai) in cloth-bound case
Digital photograph, UltraChrome pigment inks on xuan paper, each image 20.3 x 35.9 cm. (kai)
Lent to the Princeton University Art Museum by the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Zhi Lin, Chinese, born 1959
Drawing and Quartering from the series Five Capital Executions in China
Hanging scroll mounted as a thangka; charcoal on canvas, screen-printing on ribbons
106 x 74 in. (image); 144 x 84 in. (mount)
Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund, with gifts from the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Alisan Fine Arts, Ltd. Alice King Gallery, and Thaw Charitable Trust. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637), Japanese, Edo period
Poems from the New Collection of Japanese Poems from
Ancient and Modern Times (Shinkokin wakashu) with Printed Designs of
Plants and Animals, before 1615
Unsigned
Handscroll fragment; ink and mica on colored paper
Callig: 24.1 x 352.5 cm.
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921,
Fund; with funds from the Executive Committee of "The Embodied Image:
Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection" exhibition
in Japan; and the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
2003-94
Liu Heung Shing (b. 1951)
Three Youths in Simao, Yunnan Province
Signed; dated 1981 (printed in 8/2002), 47/50
Gelatin silver photograph, 37.3 x 55.8 cm.
Gift of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East
Asian Art
2002-305
Hai Bo 海波
(b. 1962)
Them #6
Signed; dated 1999, 5/18
Two chromogenic development prints
a). image 60.2 x 86.8 cm.
b). image 60.1 x 83.0 cm.
Purchase of the Princeton University Art Museum,
and the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
2002-304 a-b
Xu Bing (b. 1955)
Book from the Sky (Tianshu)
Signed; edition no. 49/100, ca. 1987-91.
Boxed set of four Chinese bound, hand-printed books;
ink on paper, plus wood box.
Purchase of the East Asian Studies Program, Princeton
University Art Museum, and the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East
Asian Art
2002-281.1-.5