James Cahill (art historian)

James Cahill (born August 13, 1926 in Fort Bragg , California ; died February 14, 2014 in Berkeley , California) was an American art historian. His specialty was Chinese art history.

Life

He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of California , Berkeley, and earned masters and doctorates in art history from the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , with Max Loehr in 1952 and 1958 , and later worked with the Swedish scholar Osvald Sirén . After returning to the United States, he worked as a curator at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington and as a professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley.

Publications (selection)

• Chinese painting. Geneva 1960 (The Art Treasures of Asia)
• Chinese painting 11. – 14. Century . Hanover 1961
• The Art of Sung China. New York 1962
• Hills beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368. New York 1976
• An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: Tang, Song, and Yuan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980
• The Painter's Practice. How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. New York, Columbia University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-231-08181-8
• Yang Xin, Richard M. Barnhart, Nie Chongzheng, James Cahill, Lang Shaojun, Wu Hung (trad. Nadine Perront): Trois mille ans de peinture chinoise. Editions Philippe Picquier, 1997

A bibliography provides a more complete list of his publications.

Remarks

1. ^ Graham Bowley: James Cahill, Influential Authority on Chinese Art, Dies at 87 . New York Times, February 18, 2014.
2. ↑ Bibliography

Web links

• Graham Bowley: James Cahill, Influential Authority on Chinese Art, Dies at 87 . In: New York Times February 18, 2014
• James Cahill - Professor Emeritus, History of Art - UC Berkeley