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James Francis Cahill (Chinese: 高居翰; pinyin: Gāo Jūhàn; August 13, 1926 – February 14, 2014) was an American art collector and historian who taught at the University of California, Berkeley.
Welcome to James Cahill's website, which continues his legacy and makes accessible to all colleagues, students, and enthusiasts for Asian art, a diversity of materials: his unpublished writings, lectures, collections of images, and two series of video-recorded lectures.
James Cahill received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1958, and was Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art from 1958-1965. He taught at UC Berkeley from 1965 until his retirement in 1995.
Lectures, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. CLP 195: 1975 Review of Jack Hillier, The Uninhibited Brush: Japanese Art in the Shijô Style (London, 1974.) CLP 196: 1994 Speeches made by James Cahill during the symposium “New Understandings of Ming-Qing Painting,”.
This second part of my two lectures on garden paintings in China, includes two unique approaches to garden paintings, and rock paintings, with the works of both Zhang Hong and Wu Bin. These two artists broke from traditional Chinese practice, by composing their paintings from particular points of view
Professor Emeritus James Francis Cahill, one of the world’s foremost scholars of Chinese painting and for thirty years a distinguished faculty member in the Department of History of Art at Berkeley, died in his Berkeley home on February 14, 2014. He was 87.
Jun 6, 2022 · In James Cahill’s debut novel, Tiepolo Blue, art historian Don is captivated by the Venetian master’s skies, which have similarly fascinated the author—in particular, the artist’s use of...
