James Cahill Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Cahill, James, 1926-2014
label: Names
content: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
label: Names
content: College Art Association of America
label: Names
content: Freer Gallery of Art
label: Names
content: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan
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content: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Barnhart, Richard M., 1934-
label: Names
content: Cahill, James, 1926-2014
label: Names
content: Fong, Wen
label: Names
content: Fu, Shen, 1937-
label: Names
content: Lawton, Thomas, 1931-
label: Names
content: Ledderose, Lothar date
label: Names
content: Lee, Sherman E.
label: Names
content: Li, Chu-tsing, 1920-
label: Names
content: Pope, John Alexander, 1906-1982
label: Names
content: Sickman, L. C. S. (Laurence C. S.)
label: Names
content: Soper, Alexander Coburn, 1904-
label: Names
content: Vinograd, Richard Ellis date
label: Names
content: Wang, Chi-ch'ien
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content: Wu, Nelson Ikon, 1919-
place: label: Place
content: Washington (D.C.)
label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Berkeley (Calif.)
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content: China
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Topic
content: Art, Japanese
label: Topic
content: Art, Chinese
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Gift of James Cahill.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cahill, James, 1926-2014
abstract: label: Summary
content: Papers created by Asian art historian, curator, and collector Dr. James Francis Cahill. Includes personal and professional correspondence and project files documenting his many publications, lectures and activities in the Asian art field. Documents span his early career at the Freer Gallery of Art, where he served as curator of Chinese art from 1957-1965, and his tenure 1965-1994 as Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: 1926 -- Born, Fort Bragg, CA

1950 -- Receives BA degree in Oriental Languages from University of California, Berkeley 

1952 -- Receives MA degree in Art History from University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor

Circa 1953 -- Holds a museum training fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

1954-1955 -- Studies with Shujiro Shimada at Kyoto University in Japan on a Fulbright Scholarship

1956 -- Works with Osvald Sirén in Stockholm on his seven-volume series "Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles" Joins staff of Freer and Sackler Gallery as Curator of Chinese Art

1958 -- Receives PhD in Art History from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, working principally with Max Loehr

1960 -- Publishes first and highly influential book: "Chinese Painting." In: Treasures of Asia series, Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva, Switzerland 1960. Published also in French and German editions

1965 -- Leaves the Freer and Sackler Gallery to accept position as Professor of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley

1973 -- Goes to China as member of the Chinese Archaeological Delegation, first group of art historians to visit China from the US

1976 -- Publishes first of projected five-volume series on later Chinese paintings: "Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty"

1977 -- Visits China as chairman of Chinese Old Painting Delegation 

1978 -- Publishes second of projected five-volume series on later Chinese painting: "Parting At the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty"

1978-1979 -- Accepts appointment as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard; delivers series of lectures titled, "The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting"

1982 -- Publishes "Barnhart-Cahill-Rogers Correspondence, 1981" (collection of correspondence published for colleagues)  The Harvard lecture series: "The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting" published as a book, receives College of Art Association's Morey Prize for Best Art History book 

1998-1999 -- Spends a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton with his wife, the art historian and artist Hsingyuan Tsao

2007 -- Former students organize 80th birthday party/symposium at Berkeley, titled: "Returning to the Shore"

2010 -- Became the 12th Recipient of the Charles Lang Freer Medal

Present  -- Living in Vancouver, Canada
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945-1996
custodhist: label: Provenance
content: James Cahill donated his papers to the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives on December 12th, 2001.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2001.11
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into 2 series:

Series 1 -- Project Files, 1945-1996

Series 2 -- Correspondence with Individuals, 1945-1996
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by intern Evelyn Khoo, with the assistance of archivists Rachael Cristine Woody and David Hogge. Encoded by Rebecca Morgan, Summer 2012.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
originalsloc: label: Location of Originals
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: The James Cahill Papers span the years 1945 to 1996 and measures 15 linear feet. The collection includes: personal and administrative correspondence with other art historians, art dealers and collectors; lecture manuscripts and administrative material and correspondence with art museums, universities and other organizations in the Asian art community. There are also several personal letters and postcards with family friends of James and Dorothy Cahill. The folder descriptions were retained from Cahill's own folder titles and organized alphabetically within each series.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Material
content: The James Cahill website, http://www.jamescahill.info/ which contains digitized versions of selected unpublished papers, correspondence and personal reminisces.