Thursday, April 10, 2008

Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art announces second phase of Texas Collects Asia 2008: “India and Southeast Asia”

By Pegasus News wire

Image provided by the Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art

"Dancing Krishna" (detail), South India, Chola Period, 13th-14th century bronze. Collection of Nanik and Suneeta Vaswani, Houston

Continuing in its yearlong tribute to the legacy of its namesakes’ philanthropy in the arts, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art announces the second phase of Texas Collects Asia 2008: “India and Southeast Asia.”

Texas Collects Asia: India and Southeast Asia launches April 19, coinciding with the Texas Collects Asia 2008 catalogue release, and runs through June 22. On the heels of a successful first segment that featured Japanese art, this installation showcases an impressive selection of Buddhist and Hindu sculpture, painting, metalwork, jade carving, arms and architecture. Representing a wide range of Indian and Southeast Asian history, the works on display have been carefully chosen from some of the most prestigious public and private collections in the state of Texas.

More than 30 Cambodian silver and gold religious sculptures are featured in Texas Collects Asia: India and Southeast Asia. The sculptures depict various scenes from the life of the Buddha and reflect the artistic achievements of the various urban and provincial schools thriving throughout the twentieth century.

An extensive group of Indian sculpture in stone and bronze illustrates the refined sensibility of the merchant and royal classes, who heavily patronized this type of work as early as the first century A.D. These works are juxtaposed alongside equally fine examples of painting representing the Mughal miniature, Tibetan Tsakli, and Indian Pichhvai and Thanjvur traditions.

Collections represented in Texas Collects Asia: India and Southeast Asia:

• Amarillo Museum of Art
• Dallas Museum of Art
• Michael and Shelly Dee, Houston
• Madan and Sneh Goyal, Dallas
• Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hendry III, San Antonio
• Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price, Amarillo
• San Antonio Museum of Art
• The Spancake Collection, Houston
• Nanik and Suneeta Vaswani, Houston

Texas Collects Asia: India and Southeast Asia is curated by Jennifer Casler Price, Curator of Asian Art at the Kimbell Art Museum; Bindu Shankar, independent scholar; Ashley Thompson, Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds; and Shiyuan Yuan, Curator/Collections Manager of The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art.

The remaining Texas Collects Asia 2008 segments are:

• China: July 12- Sept. 28
• Japanese Folk Art: Oct. 18- Dec. 28
• Contemporary Art: Oct. 18- Jan. 4, 2009

Source: The Trammel and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art

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