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Cahill, James, 1926- print view role Collector dates 1926- city Vancouver state B.C. other cities Wasington, DC; Berkley, CA; country Canada sex M historical notes Asian art historian, curator, and collector. James Cahill took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1958, and was Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art from 1958. In 1965 he moved back to Berkeley, to teach there until his retirement in 1995. For the 1978-79 academic year he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, delivering a series of lectures that appeared in 1982 as a book (The Compelling Image) which in the following year won the College Art Association’s Morey Prize for the best art history book of 1982 The College Art Association awarded him its Lifetime Distinguished Teaching of Art History award in 1995, and at its 2004 annual meeting devoted a Distinguished Scholar session to him. He lives now, 2007, in Vancouver with his wife Hsingyuan Tsao and their ten-year-old twin boys Julian and Benedict. decades of activity 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 website http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/arthistory/faculty/cahill.html updated 10/31/2024 13:33:18 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution James Cahill Papers, 1945-1996 see details... «  back