Dear Exchange Partners and Colleagues:

 

The Newark Museum is pleased to announce the publication of “Korea: Highlights of the Newark Museum’s Collection” funded by the National Museum of Korea, with additional support from the Helen R. Buck Foundation.

 

This publication highlights significant components of the Newark Museum’s Korean Collection with over 140 color plates. It is organized, unusually, in a reverse chronology beginning with the most contemporary works in the collection and receding through time to earlier periods. More than a detailed description of individual objects, the essays in this catalogue aim to provide a broad historical discussion to better orient neophytes to the greater context of Korean art, culture and history. (A more complete description follows.)

 

If you would like a copy of this catalog for your library, please contact me directly at the address below or by emailing me at [log in to unmask].

 

Sincerely yours,

 

William A. Peniston, Ph.D.

Librarian/Archivist

The Newark Museum

49 Washington Street

Newark, NJ   07102

Korea: Highlights of the Newark Museum’s Collection

 

The Newark Museum is one of the first museums in the West to have collected and continually exhibited Korean art. Currently the collection numbers over 600 works and includes an incredible breadth of materials, ranging across nearly 2,000 years from the Gaya Period (42-562) through the Joeson Period (1392-1897) to the 21^st-century.

 

This publication highlights significant components of the Newark Museum’s Korean Collection with over 140 color plates. It is organized, unusually, in a reverse chronology beginning with the most contemporary works in the collection and receding through time to earlier periods. More than a detailed description of individual objects, the essays in this catalogue aim to provide a broad historical discussion to better orient neophytes to the greater context of Korean art, culture and history.

 

This publication was made possible through the generous support of the National Museum of Korea, with additional funding from the Helen R. Buck Foundation.

 

About the Authors:

 

Chin-Sung Chang is Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University and Senior Consulting Curator for East Asian Art at the Newark Msueum. He received his BA in Art History from Seoul National University, an MA from Columbia, and a PhD in Chinese Art History from Yale. In 2013–14, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has co-authored Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717) and Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400–1600. He has been working on monographs on the Chinese literati painter Ni Zan, one of the “Four Great Masters of the Late Yuan Period,” and the eminent Korean court painter Kim Hongdo.

 

Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun is Curator of the Korean Collections at the British Museum and a PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago, writing a dissertation on eighteenth-century Korean and Chinese art. She received a BA in Art History and MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. In 2013–14, she was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is the recipient of numerous other fellowships. She has studied and conducted research in South Korea, China and Taiwan.

 

Katherine Anne Paul is Curator of the Arts of Asia at the Newark Museum. Since her appointment in 2008, she has created over 26 temporary exhibitions and permanent galleries reinstallations, showcasing both traditional and contemporary art originating in Korea, China, Japan, Tibet, South, Southeast and Central Asia. In 2014 she curated the special exhibition Korea, Land of the Diamond Mountains. Dr. Paul lectures and publishes widely and holds a BA in Art History from Reed College as well as an MA and PhD in the Languages and Cultures of Asia from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A Fulbright scholar, Dr. Paul has performed field research in seventeen Asian nations during the past twenty years, including six site visits to Korea.