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Chinese art treasures : a selected group of objects from the Chinese National Palace Museum and the Chinese National Central Museum, Taichung, Taiwan : exhibited in the United States by the Government of the Republic of China at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Art Institute of Chicago; the M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco 1961-1962
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Books - Chinese Cultural Art Treasures by National Palace and Central Museums
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Series 1: Business and legal files. The first series consists of business and legal files of William Jack Chow. The files are arranged in alphabetical order by subject. These files concern both Chow's career as a lawyer and a businessman. The folders may contain a combination of business records, case files, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, memoranda, and securities. Chow also frequently traveled to Hong Kong for work. Those files are also found in this series and they span from the 1950s through 1970s. A subject of interest includes the Supreme Court of the United States landmark decision to uphold affirmative action in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. At the end of this series are Chow's books primarily related to business and law. Note: Chow's appointment books and business cards are found in Series 2.
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Gu gong fa lang qi xuan cui : masterpieces of Chinese enamel ware in the National Palace Museum
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Altogether there is a total of 1800 pieces of enamel ware in the National Palace Museum. The earliest piece dates back to the Hsüan-te reign (1426-1435 A.D.). The pieces selected for this publication all date back to the Ming or Ch'ing dynasty. Serious students of Chinese arts should observe the brightness of the colors, the elegant shape of each, vessel, and the fine gold inlay work found in the cloisonné enamel pieces. -- Preface.
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Bradley, American artist & craftsman : [Exhibition] June 16-July 31,1972, Prints & Drawings Galleries, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Fogg Art Museum. Blake's Illustrations for Dante : selections from the originals in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia and the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts [Fogg Picture Book No. 2]
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This collection contains research files of English art historian R. B. Beckett, chiefly consisting of study photographs and clippings collected from the late 1940s to early 1960s documenting the works of John Constable and other English artists including William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, J. M. W. Turner, and Richard Wilson. In addition there are also images and clippings related to English portraiture, as well as sporting and comic images. The artist research files contain study art photographs and clippings, with some occasional correspondence and notes and manuscripts by Beckett. Six artists (Blake, Constable, Gainsborough, Rowlandson, Turner, and Wilson) are distinguished as their own subseries, and their files typically contain study photographs, article clippings, some scattered manuscripts and correspondence, and exhibition catalogues. The largest of these are the John Constable files (Boxes 3-9), which includes seven boxes of study images. Other art images in the collection are arranged either in the "Artists (various)" subseries (Box 13) or in the "Portrait artists" subseries (Boxes 14-15). While some of the images are professional photographs acquired from museums, most of the images are clippings from British magazines such as The Connoisseur and Burlington. Most of the images are not annotated or only contain brief handwritten identifications typically of the artist, painting title, date, dimensions, etc. Overall there are very few manuscripts by Beckett in the collection. Exceptions consist of a sketchbook from the late 1920s containing pencil sketches of landscapes by Beckett and a few documents. The correspondence is chiefly from galleries, museums, and publishers related to Beckett's research and publications.
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