EXHIBITION FLOOR PLAN
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Smith College
Includes four sections installed in galleries
located on three levels of the Museum.
EXHIBITION GUIDE
Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063
413.585.2760
LOWER L EV EL T RA D I T I O N A L A RT
LOWER L EV EL CO N T E M PO RA RY A RT
Tues–Sat 10–4; Sun 12–4
Second Fridays 10–8 (4–8 FREE)
Closed Mondays and major holidays
FIRST FLOOR P RI N TS : 19 5 0 – 201 3
THIRD FLOOR VI D EO A RT
TRADITIONAL
ART
Lower Level
contemporary ART
RELATED PROGRA M MI NG
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All programs listed below are free and open to the general public. Programs, exhibitions, dates,
and locations subject to change. Visit www.smith.edu/artmuseum for updates and details.
Friday, February
8
4–8 ƇƄ
Featuring Collecting Art of Asia | Entire Museum and Museum Shop open, plus:
Third Floor
4–6 ƇƄ Hands on! Art-making for ages 4+ w/adult (while supplies last)
6-6:30 ƇƄ Open Eyes: Informal guided gallery conversation about an art object
First Floor
PRINTS:
1950–
2013
Atrium
& Café
Light refreshments by Tryon Common, the new café at SCMA
Saturday, March
VIDEO
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2 Family Day at SCMA: Art of Asia 10 ŸƄs3ƇƄ
Try your hand at several art projects inspired by fishing, fireworks, flowers, and more on view
in Collecting Art of Asia. Projects designed for children ages 4+ with an adult. Free snacks,
Spanish-speaking greeters, and Smith student volunteers will be on hand to assist.
Friday, March
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SUPPORT YOUR MUSEUM
Become a Member and view program updates: www.smith.edu/artmuseum
4–8 ƇƄ
Please see February secondFriday.
Friday + Saturday, March 8 + 9 Film Showing + Panel Discussion
Shop
Sponsored by Smith College Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
and the East Asian Studies Program
Friday 7 ƇƄ Seelye Hall 201 | Smith College
Museum Lobby
Film showing: “Japan’s Killer Quake” and “Resilience—Protecting Today”
Saturday 2:45–4:30 ƇƄ Neilson Library Browsing Room | Smith College
Panel Discussion: “Remembering Fukushima and Beyond: Challenge and Resilience after the
Tsunami in Tohoku, Japan.”
Friday, April
5 Public Lecture 5 ƇƄ | Wright Hall | Weinstein Auditorium | Smith College
Dr. Masummeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art/Sackler
Gallery, will speak about displaying art of Asia in the 21st century.
PLEASE BE SEATED: Reserved seating for SCMA Members. RSVP by April 3:
SCMAmembers@smith.edu or 413.585.2777
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Thursday, April
11 Public Lecture 4:30 ƇƄ | Neilson Library Browsing Room
Amy Stanley, Asst . Prof. History, Northwestern University, will speak about her book, “Selling
Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan” (University of California
Press, 2012). Organized by the East Asian Studies Program with the support of SCMA.
Friday, April
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4–8 ƇƄ
Please see February secondFriday.
IMAGES: All photography by Petegorsky/Gipe unless otherwise noted. COVER Yong Soon Min. Born South Korea, 1953. Movement (detail), 2008 (revised 2012). Installation with transparent LP records, CDs (DVDs), round mirrors
of varying sizes. Purchased through the initiative of the Korean American Students of Smith (KASS) and the Korean Arts Foundation (KAF) with gifts of alumnae and other donors. 1 Tang Muli. Born China, 1947. The Young Bugler,
1971. Oil on canvas. Gift of Andrew Kim and Wan Kyun Rha Kim, class of 1960. 2 Yue Minjun. Born China, 1962. The Grassland Series Woodcut 1 (Diving Figure), 2008. Woodcut on medium weight lightly textured cream cove
paper. Gift of Pace Editions Incorporated and Ethan Cohen Fine Arts courtesy of Ann and Richard Solomon (Ann Weinbaun, class of 1959), and Ethan Cohen. 3 Huang Yan. Born China, 1966. Chinese Shan-shui Tattoo, 1999.
- I (Japanese, 1689–1762) and Nagoshi Jomi
- VI (Japanese, d. 1759). Korean-style brazier and Kettle of the
Fourteen C-prints. Gift of Ethan Cohen in honor of Joan Lebold Cohen, class of 1954, and Jerome A. Cohen. 4 Onishi Jogen
Shinnari Type. Polished bronze (brazier) and iron with polished bronze lid (kettle). Gift of Peggy Block Danziger, class of 1962, and Richard M. Danziger. 5 Ambreen Butt. Born Pakistan, 1969. Untitled, 2008. Etching and acquatint.
Purchased with the Elizabeth Halsey Dock, class of 1933, Fund. 6 Sekino Jun’ichiro. Japanese, 1914-1988. Onchi Koshiro, 1952. Woodblock printed in color on paper. Gift of Lucio and Joan Noto. 7 Sopheap Pich. Born Cambodia,
1971. Seated Buddha—Abhaya Mudra, 2012. Bamboo, rattan, wire, plywood. Purchased with the Dorothy C. Miller, class of 1925, Fund. Photograph by Sopheap Pich. 8 Horned Owl. Shang dynasty (17th–11th century BCE).
Green nephrite. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan B. Hart. 9 Cao Fei. Born China, 1978. The Birth of RMB City, 2009. Single-channel color video with sound. Purchased with the gift of the Contemporary Associates. 10 Yong Soon Min. Born
South Korea, 1953. Movement, 2008 (revised 2012). Installation with transparent LP records, CDs (DVDs), round mirrors of varying sizes. Purchased through the initiative of the Korean American Students of Smith (KASS) and the
Korean Arts Foundation (KAF) with gifts of alumnae and other donors. MAILING PANEL Luo Brothers (Luo Weidong, Luo Weiguo, Luo Weibing). Born China: Weidong, 1963; Weigou, 1964; Weibing, 1972. Untitled A, 2008. Digital
pigment print with silkscreen varnish on thick slightly textured white wove paper. Gift of Pace Editions Incorporated and Ethan Cohen Fine Arts courtesy of Ann and Richard Solomon (Ann Weinbaum, class of 1959) and Ethan Cohen.
C Printed on recycled paper with vegetable based inks.
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COLLECTING ART OF ASIA
Exhibited Artists
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Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849, Japan
Kishi Ganku, 1756-1839, Japan
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861, Japan
Yao Zhengyong, 1811-c.1883, China
Zhou Chen (after), c. 1450-1535, China
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INTRODUCTION
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EXHIBITION SECTIONS
One hundred years ago, in 1913, the noted collector Charles Lang Freer made gifts of the
first Asian artworks to enter the collection of Smith College Museum of Art. Collecting Art
of Asia commemorates this centennial by highlighting the Museum’s holdings of Asian
art. The exhibition includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and South and Southeast Asian art
from the Museum’s permanent collection, as well as promised gifts of art. Work by over
80 artists is on view.
Collecting Art of Asia also looks to the future: it announces SCMA’s renewed commitment
to developing this important part of its collection, recognizing Smith College’s increasingly
international scope and growing strength in Asian studies.
The collection of Asian art that has taken shape over the past century reflects the evolving
aspirations for SCMA, as well as the engagement of Smith and its alumnae and friends
with Asia’s diverse countries and their rich cultures and history. Built largely through
gifts, it is in many ways a collection of collections, telling the stories of the passion and
experience of numerous collectors and their commitment to providing Smith students
with the opportunity to study and learn directly from original works of art.
The Museum’s renewed focus on non-Western art in the last ten years, and recent gifts,
particularly of Asian art created since the 1950s, have significantly enriched the collection.
This history of institutional collecting is examined in Collecting Art of Asia, as well as in a
new catalogue by the same name that features highlights from the Asian collection.
SCMA’s director, curators, and educators, in conjunction with a team of Smith faculty and
staff advisors, developed the exhibition, catalogue, and related programs collaboratively.
How is Asia defined?
T RA DITIONA L A RT
Features historical works from the permanent collection and promised gifts, including painting,
sculpture, prints, ceramics, lacquer, and metalwork.
CONT E M PORA RY A RT
Features paintings, photographs, sculpture, and the large-scale installation Movement by
Korean-American artist Yong Soon Min, acquired through the initiative of the Korean American
Students of Smith (KASS).
PRI NTS: 1950–2013
Features prints by artists from Japan, China, Korea, and Pakistan created between 1950 and the
present day. This selection of works represents major moments, collectors, and practitioners in
the recent history of printmaking, charting the changing aesthetic of contemporary graphics.
VI DEO A RT
Chen Haiyan, born 1955, China
Fang Lijun, born 1962, China
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Imamura Yoshio, born 1948, Japan
Iwami Reika, born 1927, Japan
Luo Brothers: Weidong, born 1963,
Weigou, born 1964, Weibing, born
1972, China
Masami Teraoka, born 1936, Japan
Morimura Rei, born 1948, Japan
Gu Wenda, born 1955, China
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Huang Yan, born 1966, China
Munio Takahashi Makuuchi, 19342000, USA
Yong Soon Min, born 1953, South
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Collecting Art of Asia displays a sampling of art from the Museum’s collection produced across
a broad span of time by artists born in areas currently within the borders of the following regions
and countries:
Nam June Paik, 1932-2006, Korea
Miwa Hanako, birth date undisclosed,
Japan
Jiha Moon, born 1973, South Korea
Ono Hakuko, 1915-1996, Japan
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Sopheap Pich, born 1971, Cambodia
Nusra Latif Qureshi, born 1973,
Pakistan
Shigematsu Ayumi, born 1958, Japan
Ushio Shinohara, born 1932, Japan
Takano Miho, born 1971, Japan
Tang Muli, born 1947, China
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Tsuboi Asuka, born 1932, Japan
Saira Wasim, born 1975, Pakistan
Yasuki Masako, born 1970, Japan
Yuan Yunsheng, born 1937, China
Features videos by Cao Fei, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, and other Asian artists (shown in rotation;
schedule posted in gallery). The Birth of RMB City, by Cao Fei, was the first purchase of the
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used to acquire new media works and contemporary photographs for the permanent collection.
Ambreen Butt, born 1969, Pakistan
Jiha Moon, born 1973, South Korea
In essence, Asia is an idea constructed by ever-changing geographical, political and cultural
perceptions. The ancient Greeks first used the term to describe lands immediately east of the
Aegean Sea. Europeans would later use synonymous terms such as the “Orient” and “East” that are
now acknowledged as Eurocentric and oppositional (“Orient/Occident”; “East/West”). Today, “Asia”
is the preferred term for the continent’s aggregate of countries, territories, and regions.
Recommended websites
Bai Yiluo, born 1968, China
Seong Chun, born 1966, South Korea
Hung Liu, born 1948, China
Learn more about the arts and history of Asia:
Arichi Yoshito, born 1949, Japan
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Lee Suk Ju, born 1952, South Korea
East Asia China, Japan, and South Korea
Southeast Asia Cambodia and Thailand
South Asia India and Pakistan
PRINTS: 1950-2013
Ansei Uchima, 1921-2000, USA
Yuriko Yamaguchi, born 1948, Japan
Nagai Kenji, born 1947, Japan
Nakazawa Shin’ichi, born 1956, Japan
Chunwoo Nam, born 1965, South Korea
Naoko Matsubara, born 1937, Japan
Nishizawa Miwako, born 1964, Japan
Qi Zhilong, born 1962, China
Qin Feng, born 1961, China
Qiu Deshu, born 1948, China
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Jean Shin, born 1971, South Korea
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Tachibana Seiko, born 1964, Japan
Takahashi Hiromitsu, born 1959, Japan
Tamekane Yoshikatsu, born 1959, Japan
Tsubota Masahiko, born 1947, Japan
Tsuchimochi Kazuo, born 1930, Japan
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Yoshida Chizuko, born 1924, Japan
Yoshida Toshi, 1911-1975, Japan
Yue Minjun, born 1962, China
Asia Society Museum
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Zao Wou Ki, born 1921, China
Zhang Dali, born 1963, China
Zhou Hou, born 1960, China
For further information about this exhibition
please visit smith.edu/artmuseum/On-View.
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
asia.si.edu
VIDEO ART
Cao Fei, born 1978, China
Araya Rasdjarmearnsook, born 1957,
Thailand
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Timeline of Art History
metmuseum.org/toah
This project is made possible by the generous
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of Houston, both through the initiative of Louisa
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Additional support for educational programming
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Steiner Endowed Fund, in honor of Joan Smith Koch.
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Online Museum Resources on
Asian Art/Weatherhead East Asian
Institute at Columbia University
afemuseums.easia.columbia.edu
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Artists are listed with family name first, except in cases in which
the artist is more commonly known (or chooses to self-identify)
by first name rather than family name. Names are alphabetized
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according to family or last name.