SOURCES FOR CHINESE AND ORIENTAL ART

Thanks go to the Chinese Brush Painting Society http://cbps.org.uk/ for researching much of the following Museum and Gallery information.

The UK National Society for Chinese Brush Painting is a network and information source for those interested in ancient oriental art.  They welcome UK and international members who wish to find like-minded people and up-to-date information about exhibitions, classes, equipment, techniques and artists.

On their site you can look at how to get started, find a Chinese Brush Painting teacher or a Chinese Painting class and get news and reviews. You can also discover classes for members and non-members at different levels of ability in Oxfordshire with the Oxfordshire Brush Painting Group.

EUROPE

UK

England

• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and  … online collection
• Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford
• Museum of East Asian Art, Bath. MEAA … online collection
• British Museum, London
  • Chinese Gallery rotation of different paintings, prints and textiles.  Includes a digital version of Admonitions Scroll (rarely displayed).
  • Chinese Jade Gallery
  • Percival David collection  (ceramics)
• V&A, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Compton Verney, Warwickshire, (antique bronzes)
• Bristol Art Gallery
• Terracotta Warriors Museum, Dorchester
• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Japanese snowy scenes.
• Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery (Japanese prints)
• Durham University Oriental Museum

Scotland

• Burrell Collection, Glasgow. 
• National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

FRANCE

• Musee Guimet, Paris
• Musee Cernusci, Paris

GERMANY

• Asian Art Museum, Berlin
• Museum for East Asian Art, Cologne

NETHERLANDS

• Asian Pavilion Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

SWEDEN

• Ostasiatiska Museet, Stockholm

USA

• Freer & Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian, Washington DC
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ,,, online collection & digitised journals  Video tour …  Chinese collections
• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
• Asian Art collection at Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
• Harvard Art Museums, Boston, Massachusetts
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts – complete Chinese courtyard house, the Yin Yu Tang. 
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
• Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas city
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
• Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii

ASIA

CHINA

• Palace Museum, Beijing includes Along the River at the Qingming Festival and River of Wisdom animation
• National Art Museum of China, NAMOC, Beijing
• Shanghai Museum
• Nanjing Museum
• Terracottta Army, Xi’an
• Sanxingdui Museum, Guanghan, Sichuan bronze masks
• Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou, Guangdong
• National Palace Museum, Taiwan, … online images. 

JAPAN

• Tokyo National Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo
• Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto
• Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka

VIRTUAL

Virtual collection of Asian Masterpieces (VCM): Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS) Asian masterpieces.

AUCTION HOUSES SUCH AS MALLAMS ALSO SOMETIMES SELL ART FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AND THIS WILL LIKELY BE YOUR ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO VIEW THE WORKS