Cary Y. Liu
Curator of Asian Art
Cary Y. Liu is a specialist in Chinese architectural history and art history, he has MArch and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, and is a licensed architect. Recent exhibitions for which he has been curator include: The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection (1999); Seeing Double: Copies and Copying in the Arts of China (2001); Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines" (2005); and Providing for the Afterlife: "Brilliant Artifacts" from Shandong (2005). Among his publications are contributions to Art of the Sung and Yüan: Ritual, Ethnicity, and Style in Painting (1999), and to the journals Hong Kong University Museum Journal, Oriental Art, Orientations, and T'oung Pao. He also has published the essay "Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present," in House, Home, Family: Living and Being Chinese (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005), and was curator for the exhibition and catalogue Providing for the Afterlife: “Brilliant Artifacts" from Shandong (2005) at the China Institute in New York.
Frederic Remington, American, 1861–1909
Coming through the Rye, 1902
Bronze
h. 73.0 cm., w. 72.0 cm. (28 3/4 x 28 3/8 in.)
Gift of Laurance S. Rockefeller, Class of 1932 (y1991-5 )
photo: Bruce M. White
