The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale
过眼云烟：耶鲁大学藏中国艺术珍品

In 1982, the China Institute presented “The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale,” a selection of masterworks of Chinese art from the Yale University Art Gallery. Twenty-two years later, a second exhibition, “The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale,” reexamined the collection from the perspective of Chinese scholar-collectors and offered an opportunity to present some rarely displayed treasures. Scholars as collectors played a significant role in shaping the past by writing about what they collected. Featuring sixty items, including bronze, ceramics, paintings, and furniture, this exhibition explored the two worlds of Chinese culture: the realm of ritual and the tomb and the precinct of the scholar-connoisseur.