Our Eleventh Season is underway! Please join us for an exciting season of lectures and trips to museums, galleries and private collections.
2010
September
Sunday, September 26th, 2:30 p.m.
The Deer (Mandala)Hunt
A lecture by distinguished collector and scholar Sylvan Barnet
Drawing from his research for a Orientations article to be
published in 2011, Society colleague Sylvan Barnet will describe
the origins and iconography of this Japanese form of mandala,
which combines Shinto and Buddhist elements and is found
in both painted and sculpted types. His talk will be illustrated
by examples in Japanese and American collections and also,
by two Deer Mandala paintings, which Bill Burto and Sylvan had
sought to acquire for their collection for more than two decades.
Location: the home of Dorothy Braude Edinburg
Organized by Marilyn Hamburger and Steve Gaskin
October
Saturday, October 16th, 10:30 a.m.
A tour of the Peabody Essex Museum exhibition, The Emperor’s
Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City, by
Nancy Berliner, PhD, Curator of Chinese Art, Peabody Essex
Museum
Our guide for this show has been deeply involved with
the restoration of the Qianlong Emperor’s retirement garden,
its pavilions and their remarkable interiors and furnishings,
in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and the Palace
Museum, Beijing, over the last ten years.
Location: Peabody Essex Museum
Organized by Henry Harrison
Saturday and Sunday, October 30th and 31st
Trip to Washington D.C. and exhibitions at the Freer and Sackler
Galleries. (planning is incomplete).
The exhibitions for which we are attempting to retain guides with
expertise are, Masterpieces of Chinese Painting at the Freer Gallery
and Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of
Cambodia at the Sackler Gallery.
For details about travel and accommodations, please contact Henry
Harrison at henry60h@yahoo.com or at 617 460-0225.
November
Sunday, November 14th, 2:30 p.m.
Flowers and Birds in Chinese Art
A lecture by Maggie Bickford, PhD, Professor of Art and Architecture,
Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University
Location: Wellesley Community Center
Organized by Abigail Homer
December
No December Event
2011
January
Sunday, January 9th, 2:30 p.m.
First Under Heaven: Korean Ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty
(918-1392)
A lecture by Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of
Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art, Arthur M.
Sackler Musem; Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art,
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
University
Location: the home of Dorothy Braude Edinburg
Organized by Steve Gaskin
February
Sunday, February 6th, 2:30 p.m.
Inside the World of the Islamic Calligrapher
A lecture by Mary McWilliams, PhD, Norma Jean Calderwood
Curator of Islamic Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard
University
Location to be announced in the invitation
Organized by Conley Harris and Howard Truelove
March
Saturday, March 26th, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Bus trip to New York City and the attractions of Asian Art Week
Organized by Henry Harrison
April
Sunday, April 10th, 2:30 p.m.
A lecture on classical Chinese painting by Anne DeCoursey Clapp,
Professor of the History of Art (retired), Wellesley College
Location to be announced
Organized by Anne DeCoursey Clapp and Henry Harrison