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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creatorOf | James Cahill Papers, 1945-1996 | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives |
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associatedWith | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
associatedWith | Barnhart, Richard M., 1934- |
associatedWith | College Art Association of America |
associatedWith | Fong, Wen |
associatedWith | Freer Gallery of Art. |
associatedWith | Fu, Shen, 1937- |
associatedWith | Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan |
associatedWith | Lawton, Thomas, 1931- |
associatedWith | Ledderose, Lothar date |
associatedWith | Lee, Sherman E. |
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Birth 1926-08-13
Death 2014-02-14
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