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2. Asian Art Museum (San Francisco) - Wikipedia

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   Museum interior (2003): Gae Aulenti. Website. www.asianart.org. Area. 185,000-square-foot (17,200 m 2) The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture[1] is a museum in San Francisco, California that specializes in Asian art. It was founded by Olympian Avery Brundage in the 1960s and has more than ...

3. History of Asian art - Wikipedia

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   The history of Asian art includes a vast range of arts from various cultures, regions, and religions across the continent of Asia. The major regions of Asia include East, Southeast, South, Central, and West Asia. East Asian art includes works from China, Japan, and Korea, while Southeast Asian art includes the arts of Brunei, Cambodia, East ...

4. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.asia.si.edu. The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., focusing on Asian art. The Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. [ 1 ] The Freer and Sackler galleries house the largest Asian art research ...

5. List of museums of Asian art - Wikipedia

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   Crow Museum of Asian Art. United States. Dallas, Texas. 4,000 [ 11] Field Museum of Natural History. United States. Chicago, Illinois. 50,000 [ 12] Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

6. Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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   The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art ranging from the ancient Near East and ancient Egypt, through classical antiquity to the contemporary world.

7. List of Smithsonian museums - Wikipedia

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   13 - National Portrait Gallery 14 - Smithsonian American Art Museum 15 - National Postal Museum 16 - National Zoological Park (National Zoo) 17 - Anacostia Community Museum 18 - National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 19 - National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center.

8. Chinese painting - Wikipedia

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   Chinese painting (simplified Chinese: 中国画; traditional Chinese: 中國畫; pinyin: Zhōngguó huà) is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guó huà (simplified Chinese: 国画; traditional Chinese: 國畫), meaning "national painting" or "native ...

9. Crocker Art Museum - Wikipedia

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   May 6, 1971. The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. [ 3 ] Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art. The collection includes American works dating from the Gold Rush to the present, European paintings and master drawings, one of ...