The Art of Nepal: Shiva and Buddha
The Newar artisans of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal are renowned for incomparable Buddhist and Hindu sculpture and painting. While Indian Gupta art was an early influence, they eventually developed a unique style of unparalleled quality. Their religious artifacts were ardently sought after by both the Yuan Dynasty imperial court and by the Tibetans for their monasteries.
Dr. Tingley will give us a tantalizing preview of the exhibition she is mounting featuring this art, The Art of Nepal: Shiva and Buddha (October 20, 2012 to January 27, 2013) at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. It will include Buddhist and Hindu material – approximately 40 bronzes, manuscript paintings, ritual objects, stone sculpture, plus a few tribal pieces – drawn from private California collections and the Crocker’s own collection. The dated pieces in the exhibition will allow Dr. Tingley to discuss patronage in Nepal, particularly as it relates to the objects in the exhibition.
Nancy Tingley is well known to the SAA audience as the former Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Curator of Southeast Asian Art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco for many years. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in South and Southeast Asian art history and now works as a freelance curator. Among her recent triumphs are Arts of Ancient Vietnam (Asia Society, New York, 2009) and Buddhas (Crocker Museum, 2009). She also wrote Doris Duke: The Southeast Asian Art Collection (Dallas Museum, 2003).
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