Denise Patry Leidy Yale University Art Gallery Department of Asian Art P.O. Box 208271 New Haven, CT 06520-8271 [email protected]

Education Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 Ph.D., Art History, January 1986 Thesis: Northern Ch’i Buddhist Sculpture (550 – 577) M.A., Art History, October 1976 Thesis: A Seven Buddhas Bronze in the Nezu Museum

Wheaton College, Norton MA 02766 B.A., Art History, June 1974 Honors thesis: The Water Cosmology in Indian Art: Its Meanings and Manifestations

Research Collaborations and Other Scholarly Activities: Advisory committee, Digital Avalokiteshvara project, University of Virginia, 2010 -

Advisory committee, digital reconstruction (and related exhibition) of the cave-temple complex at Xiangtangshan, Hebei Province, sponsored by the University of Chicago/Getty Grants Program, 2004-2010.

Moderator/Panelist, “Art and Material Culture of the Northern Qi Period,” Freer Gallery of Art, June 3 – 5, 2011

Consultant, Silk Road Exhibition, American Museum of Natural History, 2007 – 2009

Consultant, Portland Art Museum (Chinese collection), July 2008

Participant, International Symposium in Honor of Dr. Walter M. Spink, Seoul National University, May 2008

Co-Chair, “But How Did They Use It? Defining Context in Buddhist Art,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 2003

Discussant, “Gendered Space in the Spiritual Cosmos: Female Deities in Buddhist Art,” Barnard Feminist Art History Conference, November 2001

Participant, International Seminar at Dunhuang, a joint project of the Silk Road Foundation and The University of Michigan, July 2001.

1 “Bezeklik and Esoteric Buddhism,” Paper delivered to The Association for Asian Studies, March 1999.

Discussant, “The Luohans of Yixian,” The Association for Asian Studies, March 1998.

Participant, Documentation of the history and culture of Turfan, a joint project of the Luce Foundation and Yale University, 1995-1998.

Project director/curator, Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment, The Asia Society, NEA, 1997.

Coordinator/ Editor, Tribute to Miyeko Murase, two volumes of Orientations with articles by former students on the occasion of her retirement, 1996-1997.

Project director/curator, Buddha of the Future: An Early Maitreya from Thailand, The Asia Society, NEA 1993/1994.

Participant/Discussant, Japanese Art in Its Monastic Context, McMaster University, Toronto, Canada, 1994.

Project director/curator, The Cosmic Dancer: Shiva Nataraja, The Asia Society, NEA 1991-1992.

“Beyond Likeness: Biography in Buddhist Portraiture,” Paper delivered to the International Association of Orientalists, Toronto, 1990.

Cochair, Likeness and Lineage: Religious Portraiture in Asia, College Art Association Annual Meeting, 1990.

Project director, self-guiding tours to the Asiatic Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, NEA 1989-1990.

Curator, Faces of Asia: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, NEA Grant for the Utilization of Museum Resources, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1988-1989.

NEA Fellow, Asiatic Department, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1983-1984.

Project Coordinator: Interpretative Material for the Asian Collections, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, NEH 1981-1983.

Columbia University Research Fellowship, 1981.

Distinguished Service Award (Teaching), The Massachusetts College of Art, 1981.

Professional Development Grant, The Massachusetts State College System, 1979-1980.

2 Columbia University Fellowship, 1975-1977.

Books and Exhibition Catalogues: Global by Design: Chinese Ceramics from the R. Albuquerque Collection (with Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos), London: Jorge Welsh Publishing, 2016.

How to Read Chinese Ceramics, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015.

Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. (editor and co-author with Soyoung Lee)

The Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World (with Mark Norrell and others), New York, Sterling Publishing, 2011.

Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (with Donna Strahan), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. (2010 AAMC Awards for Excellence, Permanent Collection Catalogue/runner up)

The Art of Buddhism: Its History and Meaning, Boston, Shambhala Publications, 2008.

Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition in Asian Lacquer, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006.

Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in early Fifteenth Century China (with James C. Y. Watt), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.

China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-700, edited by James C. Y. Watt, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. (catalogue entries)

The Year One: Ancient Art East and West, edited by Elizabeth Milleker, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. (Catalogue entries and introduction for Asia)

Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment (with Robert A.F. Thurman), New York: The Asia Society and Tibet House in collaboration with Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston, MA 1997.

The Asia Society: The Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection: New York: The Asia Society and Abbeville Press, 1994.

Buddha of the Future: An Early Thai Sculpture of Maitreya (with Nandana Chutiwongs), New York: The Asia Society Galleries, 1994.

Treasures of Asian Art: Selections from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1993.

3 Faces of Asia: Portraits from the Permanent Collection (with Vishakha N. Desai) Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1989.

Essays: “Interpretation and Innovation: Chinese Ceramics from the mid-6th to the early 8th century,” forthcoming, Orientations (2017).

“Two Kangxi Period Textiles,” forthcoming, Arts of Asia (March/April 2017)

“Discovery and Display: Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces: Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums, edited by Bruce M. Sullivan, London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2015): 94 – 106.

“Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer,” Arts of Asia, vol. 45, no. 6 (November/December 2015): 76 – 87.

Hong se diao qi ji xiang qing bai nian (translated by Wang Yiwen), Diancang (Art and Collection Monthly), vol. 276 (September 2015): 132 – 133. Please note a second version of this translated article was published in the Beijing edition of this Taiwanese journal in December 2015 as part of a series of essays on Chinese Lacquer.

“Longquan: A Selection from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts of Asia, vol. 42 no. 2 (March/April 2015): 118 – 128.

“Extraordinary Things: The Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for Chinese Decorative Arts,” Orientations, vol. 46, no. 2 (March 2015): 179 – 183.

“A Buddhist Source for a Stoneware “Basket” Designed by Georges Hoentschel,” Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 49 (2014): 225 -228.

Interstices of Compassion: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in China, Central Asia, and India, 5th – 10th centuries,” Cultural Crossings: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period, edited by Dorothy C. Wong and Gustav Heldt, New Delhi: Manohar (2014): 293 – 314.

Buddha, Deva, or Devotee: A Sculpture from Xiangtangshan in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Orientations (October 2013): 66 – 69 (with Birgitta Augustin). (Translated into Chinese for Mei Cheng Zai Zu vol. 1 (2014): 64 – 69.

Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom, Arts of Asia (September – October 2013): 95 – 105 (with Soyoung Lee).

The “Kashmir Connection” and Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in the late 7th and early 8th Century,” Recent Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art (conference paper), Seoul: National Museum of Korea (2012): 31 – 48.

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Links - Missing and Otherwise: Tillya Tepe and East Asia in Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz eds., Hidden Treasures of Afghanistan, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012: 110 -119.

Khubilai Khan and the Transformation of Chinese Art, Arts of Asia (September/ October 2010): 92 – 101.

Lacquer: A Chinese Tradition under Mongol Rule, Orientations (September 2010): 76 – 80.

“Buddhism and other ‘Foreign” Practices in Yuan China,” in James C. Y. Watt, et.al., The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2010): 86 – 127.

Notes on a sculpture of Buddha Maitreya dated 486 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oriental Art (Winter 2005/2006), 22-32.

"Cave Sanctuaries," "Mandala," and “Mudra and Visual Imagery,” Encyclopedia of Buddhism, editor in chief, Robert E. Buswell, Jr, New York, Macmillan, 2003, 117 – 119, 508-512, 569-572.

“A Northern Song Sculpture of the Monk Sengqie in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Oriental Art (Spring 2003), 52 – 64. Please note: A Chinese translation of this article by Dr. Luo Shiping has been published.

Entries for Buddhist Sculpture in The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Paintings from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, 68 - 73.

“Bezeklik Temple 20 and Esoteric Buddhism, Silk Road Art and Archaeology, vol. 7 (2001) 201-222.

“Prakon Chai and the Art of Southeast Asia in the 7th to the 9th Century” Arts of Asia (July/August 2000) 28-41.

“Avalokiteshvara in Sixth-Century China,” The Flowering of A Foreign Faith edited by Janet Baker, Marg Publications, Mumbai, India (December 1998) 88-97.

Chinese Decorative Arts: The Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries (with Anita Wai- fong Siu and James C. Y. Watt) New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer 1997.

“Kashmir and China: A Note on Styles and Dates,” Orientations (February 1997) 66-70.

5 “Iconography and Provenance: Buddhist Art from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Asian Art,” Orientations (March 1993) 51-57.

“Gods, Guardians and Lovers: Temples Sculptures from North India, AD 700 -1200,” Minerva (March/April 1993) 6 -11.

“The Ssu-wei Figure in Sixth-Century Chinese Buddhist Sculpture,” Archives of Asian Art, XLIII (1990) 21-37. Please note: A Japanese translation of this article by Hirokazu Yatsunami was published in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts Bulletin volume 88 (1994) 27- 45.

“Recent Archaeological Contributions to the Study of Chinese Ceramics,” (with Wu Tung) in Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Sir Percival David Foundation, San Francisco: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Chronicle Books, 1989, 93-105.

“Tufted Zoomorphs: Figural Images in Machang Ceramics,” Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, vol. 1 (1989) 22-30.

“Chinese Paleography,” The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science vol. 27 New York: Marcel Drekker, 1984, 33-42.

Chinese Sculpture, Japanese Buddhist and Tibetan Art entries Handbook of Asiatic Art: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.

Poets, Actors, and Beautiful Women: Japanese Prints from the Collection of Albert P. Carderelli. Boston: The Massachusetts College of Art, 1980.

Exhibition Brochures and Gallery Guides: New Finds, Old Treasures: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, The Asia Society, 1995.

Splendor and Simplicity: Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century, The Asia Society, 1993.

The Cosmic Dancer: Shiva Nataraja, New York: The Asia Society Galleries, 1992

“Art and Religion in India,” “Images from Caves and Tombs,” “Symbols of Eternity,” “Japanese Woodblock Prints,” “Japanese Buddhist Sculpture,” “Suiboku-ga: The Art of Ink and Water,” (gallery guides) The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1983.

Horyu-ji: Temple of the Exalted Law, The Japan Society, 1981.

Selected Public Lectures (2000 --):

6 2016: Emperor Yongle and the Ming Dynasty, The China Institute 2015: “Technical Studies, Meaning and Practice: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels 2015: “Buddhist Art in a Secular Space: Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” American University 2015: “Moments of Transformation: Buddhist Art from the Seventh to the Tenth Century,” Christie’s lecture in honor of Robert H. Ellsworth 2014: “Yamabushi and Hijiri: Extreme Practitioners in Japan, and Elsewhere,” Columbia University, 2014: China = Porcelain: The Global Impact of Chinese Ceramics,” Bruce Museum 2013 China = Porcelain: The Importance of Chinese Ceramics on Global Traditions: Detroit Art Institute 2013: “Playing with Pots: Rethinking/Reinstalling Chinese Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Northern Arizona University 2013: Extreme Practices: Shakyamuni and Other Ascetics in Buddhist Art,” IFA China Workshop Project 2013 “Susshan Shaka and Other Ascetics in Buddhist Art,” Yale University 2012 “The Kashmir Connection and Early Buddhist Sculpture in the late 7th and early 8th century,” National Museum of Korea, Seoul 2012 “The Monk Ananda,” The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. 2011 “Displaying the Past: Archaeology and Museum Exhibitions,” Northwestern University 2011 “Buddhist Art at the Yuan Court,” Northwestern University 2011 “Curator’s Perspective on Exhibition Design,” ITP, New York University 2010: “Khubilai Khan and the Transformation of Chinese Art,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2010, “Merchandise, Monks, and Mongols, Annual Tibet Lecture,” Newark Museum 2010: “The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the 13th and 14th century,” Bruce Museum 2010 “Interstices of Compassion: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in China, Central Asia, and India, 5th -10th century,” University of Virginia. 2009: “Links, Missing and Otherwise, Tillya Tepe and East Asia,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009: “Traditions and Transformations: Ceramics of Southeast Asia,” Bruce Museum 2008: “Proportions of Perfections: Some Thoughts on Asian Art”, Portland Art Museum 2008: “Asian Art in A Global Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Gyeongju National Museum, Korea 2008 “Dipankara, Yungang, and Iconographic Transitions in Late Fifth-Century Asia,” International Symposium in Honor of Dr. Walter M. Spink, Seoul National University, Korea 2008: Masterpieces of Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection 2008: “The Buddha’s Relics: Icons and Sanctity in Buddhist Asia,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2007: “The Silk Road: The Evidence from China,” Bruce Museum 2007 “Following Xuanzang: Silk Road at the Metropolitan Museum of Art” The Metropolitan Museum of Art

7 2007 “Trade and Taste in Asian Lacquer,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005: “Exhibiting the Past: Chinese Archaeology Discoveries in a Museum.” University of Vermont 2005: “Understanding Indian Art,” Emory University 2004: “Teachers and Traders in China, 200 –750” The Metropolitan Museum of Art” 2001: “Dunhuang: A Thousand Years of Buddhist Art at the End of the Silk Road,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2001: “An Ongoing Dialogue: Buddhist Art in East Asia,” New York University 2001: “Unearthing the Past: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in China,” Middlebury College 2000: “Images and Ideas: China and the Silk Road,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Professional Experience: Yale University Art Gallery, Department of Asian Art, 111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510 Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art and Department Head Responsible for management of collections of East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Islamic Art. Current projects include the re-installation and expansion of the galleries for Asian art, and assessment and expansion of the collection.

1995 - 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Asian Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 10028 Brooke Russell Astor Curator for Chinese Art; Director of Curatorial Studies Program; Editorial Board, Metropolitan Museum Journal Responsible for extensive collections of sculpture, lacquer, ceramics and other decorative arts including bi-annual rotations of lacquers and textiles in The Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for Chinese Decorative Arts and irregular rotations in the Studies in Global Ceramic History project. Recent projects include Global by Design: Chinese Ceramics from the R. Albuquerque Collection (with Jeff Munger), Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom (with Soyoung Lee) and the development of a “Treasure Room” for the third floor decorative arts galleries. Currently developing a permanent collection-based exhibition entitled Buddhism and the Decorative Arts in China (November 2017). Exhibitions/rotations include Chinese Lacquer: Masterpieces from the Irving Collection (2015); Sumptuous: East Asian Lacquer (2014); and Painting with Thread: Chinese Tapestry and Embroidery (2014); Red and Black: Chinese Lacquer from the 13th – 16th century (2012): Extravagant Display: Chinese Art in the 18th and 19th Centuries (2010): The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty (2010) Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer (2009): Hidden Treasures from Afghanistan (2009): Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection (2007); Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition in Asian Lacquer (2007); Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth Century China (2005); China: Dawn of a Golden Age (2004); Glimpses of the Silk Road: Central Asia in the First Millennium (2002); The Year One: Ancient Art East and West (2000).

Visiting Professor, Hunter College (Spring 2016)

8 Graduate seminar “Objects of Influence: Chinese Art/Global Traditions.”

1991-1995: The Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021 Assistant Director/Curator; position has two components care and management of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Asian Art, and supervision of an extensive program of exhibitions and related events dealing with all aspects of Asian art history. Also served as curator for selected special exhibitions including: Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment (1997); New Finds, Old Treasures: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection (1995); Monkey (1995); An Enduring Legacy: The Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Collection (1994); Buddha of the Future: An Early Maitreya from Thailand (1994); Treasures of Asian Art (traveling exhibition from permanent collection, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, 1992); The Cosmic Dancer: Shiva Nataraja (1992); Motifs and Meanings in East Asian Art (1992); Undercurrents in the Floating World: Censorship and Japanese Woodblock Prints (1991).

1986-1991: Wheaton College, Art Department, Norton MA 02766 Visiting Assistant Professor, Courses included year-long survey of Asian Art, and individual survey courses for China, Japan, and India, also supervised senior honors theses on all aspects of Asian art.

1982-1990: Asiatic Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115 Assistant Curator, 1989-1990, Research Assistant 1985-1988, NEA Fellow 1983-1984, Intern 1981-1982. Responsibilities include four gallery changes annually in six galleries exhibiting East Asian Buddhist and Tibetan Painting. Participated in extensive renovation of Asian Department with responsibility for Early China, Chinese Sculpture, Japanese Buddhist Sculpture and Painting, and Himalayan Galleries. Exhibitions/installations include Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Sir Percival David Foundation (1990); Faces of Asia: Portraits from the Permanent Collection (1989); Stories from China’s Past (1987); The Year of the Tiger (1986); Kings of Shambhala (1985); Shinto Painting (1984); Autumn in Japan (1983); Treasures from the Kasuga Shrine (1983).

1988-1990: Boston University, The College of Liberal Arts, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Visiting Assistant Professor, taught survey of Asian Art at MFA, Boston using works in the galleries.

1977-1980: The Massachusetts College of Art, Critical Studies Department, 364 Brookline Avenue, Boston MA 02115 Instructor, Courses included “Arts of Asia,” “Arts of China,” “Arts of Japan,” and “Analysis and Style.” In 1979-1980 awarded Professional Development Grant which resulted in seminar entitled “Japanese Prints 1800-1850: The Figure Tradition and an exhibition and publication of a private collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Received Distinguished Teaching Award in 1981.

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