LACMA WILL RECEIVE GIFT OF CHINESE ART; 75 MAJOR WORKS DONATED FROM A COLLECTION ACQUIRED DURING CULTURAL REVOLUTION.Byline: Daily News Inspired by the recently reinstalled galleries of Chinese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. , Los Angeles collectors Eric and Leza Lidow have given LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association 75 major works of Chinese art, including many important archaic Chinese bronzes and significant examples of Buddhist sculpture, LACMA officials said Tuesday. Some of these works were exhibited at the museum in the 1970s as part of the LACMA-organized exhibitions ``Archaic Ritual Bronzes of China'' in 1976 and ``Joy of Collecting'' in 1979. Beginning at the end of this week, approximately three dozen masterpieces from the Lidow collection will be permanently displayed in the Early Chinese and Early Buddhist Art galleries located on the atrium level of the Ahmanson building. ``This significant gift of art joins approximately two dozen additional works previously given to LACMA by the Lidows, testifying to an admirable and continuous tradition of generosity,'' said Graham W.J. Beal, director of LACMA. The archaic bronzes in the Lidow gift span the entire length of the Chinese Bronze Age from early Shang times (about 1500 BC) through the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) and include ritual vessels and weapons as well as ornaments and fittings. Three massive ritual wine containers from the Anyang period (about 1300-1050 BC) of the Shang dynasty, a bronze bell of late Western Zhou pedigree (about 1050-771 BC), archaic weapons dating from between the fifth and third centuries BC, and a western Han crossbow trigger with gold and silver inlay inlay /in·lay/ (-la) material laid into a defect in tissue; in dentistry, a filling made outside the tooth to correspond with the cavity form and then cemented into the tooth. in·lay n. 1. are among the other gifts. Also included are four Chinese Buddhist sculptures, including a standing Maitreya, or Buddha of the Future, datable to the Northern Wei dynasty Northern Wei dynasty or Toba dynasty (AD 386–534/35) Longest-lived and most powerful of the northern Chinese dynasties that ruled after the Han dynasty fell and before the Sui and Tang dynasties reunified China. (386-534). The Lidows purchased the works during the 1950s and 1960s, during the Cultural Revolution, when many Chinese art objects entered the international art market for the first time in decades. Following emigration emigration: see immigration; migration. patterns, significant works came to Hong Kong or New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , cities frequently visited by the Lidows. J. Keith Wilson, head of Far Eastern Art at LACMA, said the Lidow gift will have ``a profound impact on our galleries, allowing us to rethink, reinstall To go through the installation process once again, because files have become corrupted. See reload. and enrich our displays.'' |
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