Highlights Tour // Hand-Held, The Four Seasons of Chinese Painting
Price: Free
September 10 @ 11:00 am - 11:30 am
Liang Yuwei 梁于渭, "Reading Under the Autumn Trees," Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Late 19th/early 20th century, ink and color on silk. Museum purchase through the bequest of Montie Powell McDonnell. 1988.82.41
Join Dr. Katherine Anne Paul, The Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art, as she discusses how to decode Chinese paintings, their poetry, dedications, painters and collectors seals as well as how to discover the seasons through natural cycles of plants and weather.
Each Highlights Tour offers an intimate look at specific areas of the BMA collection with a BMA curator or educator. Join us to learn something new about our collection of more than 27,000 works of art!
Tours begin in the Main Lobby of the BMA.
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