Claudia Brown

Professor Brown’s recent publications include:

Great Qing:  Painting in China, 1644-1911, book published by the University of Washington Press, 2014.

“A Western View of Kangxi’s Travel to the South:  Fragmentary Scroll Six of his Inspection Tour Series and its Associations,” in Embrace the Horizon:  The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll VI, published by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2020, pp. 18-38.

“Acquisitions of Chinese Painting by North American Museums Since the 1980s:  Some Impressions,” in World 3:  Research on Chinese Art History, A Western Perspective, edited by Wu Hung and Guo Weiqi, published by OCAT, 2020, pp. 112-131.

“Cloudscapes,” essay for an exhibition catalog on the work of artist Dong Xue, Beijing, spring 2017.

“The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection:  An Introduction,” in The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Paintings, Sotheby’s, New York, sale of September 14, 2016, pp. 8-17.

“Hu Chunwei:  Circulation,” in Urban Collection:  Hu Chunwei Works, Beijing, spring 2016, pp. 18-21.

“Gossamer Line and Spreading Ink:  The Beauty of Complementary Opposites in the Work of Painter Gao Yi,” essay for an exhibition catalog, Beijing, spring 2016.

Clarity and Luster: New Light on Bronze Mirrors in Tang and Post-Tang Dynasty China and Myriad Points of View: New Research on Ming and Qing Paintings in the Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection, which appeared in 2005-06. Her articles appeared in Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Painting from the Opium Wars to the Cultural Revolution, 2000; Beyond Yixing: The Ceramic Art of Ah Leon, 1998; and Worlds Within Worlds: Chinese Scholars’ Rocks from the Richard Rosenblum Collection, 1997. She was co-author of Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China's Empire, 1796-1911, 1993; and The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting under the Qianlong Emperor, 1735-1795, 1985.

Professor Brown contributed to an exhibition catalog published by Harvard University Art Museums in conjunction with Yale University Press, A Tradition Re-defined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950–2000 (2007), and to an exhibition catalog published by Bard Graduate Center with Yale University Press, Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (2011). 

Her book, Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911, is in production at the University of Washington Press.