Cahill, James, 1926-2014

  1. Cahill, James, 1926-2014
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1926 Born, Fort Bragg, CA 1950 Receives BA degree in Oriental Languages from University of California, Berkeley 1952 Receives MA degree in Art History from University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor Circa 1953 Holds a museum training fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York 1954 1955 Studies with Shujiro Shimada at Kyoto University in Japan on a Fulbright Scholarship 1956 Works with Osvald Sirén in Stockholm on his seven-volume series "Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles" Joins staff of Freer and Sackler Gallery as Curator of Chinese Art 1958 Receives PhD in Art History from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, working principally with Max Loehr 1960 Publishes first and highly influential book: "Chinese Painting." In: Treasures of Asia series, Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva, Switzerland 1960. Published also in French and German editions 1965 Leaves the Freer and Sackler Gallery to accept position as Professor of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley 1973 Goes to China as member of the Chinese Archaeological Delegation, first group of art historians to visit China from the US 1976 Publishes first of projected five-volume series on later Chinese paintings: "Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty" 1977 Visits China as chairman of Chinese Old Painting Delegation 1978 Publishes second of projected five-volume series on later Chinese painting: "Parting At the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty" 1978 1979 Accepts appointment as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard; delivers series of lectures titled, "The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting" 1982 Publishes "Barnhart-Cahill-Rogers Correspondence, 1981" (collection of correspondence published for colleagues) The Harvard lecture series: "The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting" published as a book, receives College of Art Association's Morey Prize for Best Art History book 1998 1999 Spends a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton with his wife, the art historian and artist Hsingyuan Tsao 2007 Former students organize 80th birthday party/symposium at Berkeley, titled: "Returning to the Shore" 2010 Became the 12th Recipient of the Charles Lang Freer Medal Present Living in Vancouver, Canada

From the guide to the James Cahill Papers, 1945-1996, (The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives)
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