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With approximately 6,000 objects, the Asian art collection encompasses the regions of East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan), Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Near East from the Islamic era. The Chinese and Japanese collections were built initially through the gifts and bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore. The greatest strengths of the Chinese collections lie in ceramics and painting. These include a special group of vessels from the Changsha region of Hunan Province, spanning ca. 500 B.C.E. to C.E. 1000, assembled for the most part by John Hadley Cox, B.A. 1935. Chinese paintings range from the Tang dynasty (618–907) through the twentieth century. There are also fine examples of work from the seventeenth century and, with recent gifts of over one hundred nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings, in the modern and contemporary periods as well.
The Japanese collection has important concentrations in the arts of the Edo period (1615–1868). Approximately 1,000 prints, the majority of which are ukiyo-e prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrate the breadth of this medium and recent acquisitions have included a group of twentieth-century prints. Several important seventeenth-century screens highlight the department’s holdings in Japanese painting. Japanese textiles are represented by fragments from the Shōsōin repository in Nara, Noh robes, kimonos, and a collection of Buddhist priests’ robes, and modern ceramic work by a significant number of objects from the twentieth century.
The South Asian and Islamic collections feature an excellent group of textiles, ceramics, miniature paintings, and manuscript pages.
Please note: The Department of Asian Art at the Yale University Art Gallery uses the era designations C.E. ("of the common era") and B.C.E. ("before the common era") corresponding to A.D. (anno Domini, "in the year of the Lord") and B.C. ("before Christ").
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David Ake Sensabaugh david.sensabaugh@yale.edu
David Ake Sensabaugh, the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art at the Gallery, is a graduate of Stanford University and received his Ph.D. in Chinese and Japanese Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. His research interests are in fourteenth-century Chinese painting and the art of Han dynasty China. He has also written on Chinese gardens. Download curriculum vitae
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Sadako Ohki sadako.ohki@yale.edu
Sadako Ohki, The Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art, received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Michigan in 1984. She was co-curator of an international loan exhibition on the art of Buddhist nuns at Columbia University in 1998. Specializing in calligraphy, she coauthored the popular kanaCLASSIC CD-ROM and Seasons of Sacred Celebration: Flowers and Poetry from an Imperial Convent (Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies & Weatherhill). Her current research focuses on the Yale's major collection of Japanese art. Download curriculum vitae
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The Edo Culture in Japanese Prints. Introduction by George J. Lee. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.
Lee, George J. Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
Neill, Mary Gardner. The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale. New York: China Institute in America Inc., 1982.
Ohki, Sadako. Twentieth-Century Japanese Ceramics at the Yale University Art Gallery: The Collections of Molly and Walter Bareiss. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001.
Sensabaugh, David Ake. The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2004.
Staples, Loretta N. A Sense of Pattern: Textile Masterworks from the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981.
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