Art Exhibitions: Massachusetts
  Amherst • Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
    • Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
 
  Andover • Addison Gallery of American Art
 
  Attleboro • Attleboro Arts Museum
 
  Boston • Museum of Fine Arts
    • Boston Athenaeum
    • Boston University Art Gallery
    • Institute of Contemporary Art
    • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
 
  Brockton • Fuller Craft Museum
 
  Cambridge • Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University
  • Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University
  • Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University
  • Harvard Art Museum
  • MIT List Visual Arts Center
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
 
  Chestnut Hill • McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College
 
  Cotuit • Cahoon Museum of American Art
 
  Dedham • Museum of Bad Art
 
  Dennis • Cape Cod Museum of Art
 
  Duxbury • The Art Complex Museum
 
  Fitchburg • Fitchburg Art Museum
 
  Framingham • Danforth Museum of Art
 
  Lincoln • DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
 
  Lowell • Whistler House Museum Of Art
 
  Medford • Tufts University Gallery
 
  New Bedford • New Bedford Art Museum
 
  North Adams • Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
 
  Northampton • Smith College Museum of Art
 
  Pittsfield • Berkshire Museum
 
  Plymouth • Pilgrim Hall Museum
 
  Provincetown • Provincetown Art Association and Museum
 
  Salem • Peabody Essex Museum
 
  Sandwich • Heritage Museums and Gardens
 
  Sharon • Kendall Whaling Museum
 
  South Hadley • Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
 
  Springfield • The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle
 
  Stockbridge • Norman Rockwell Museum
 
  Waltham • Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University
 
  Wellesley • Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College
 
  Williamstown • Clark Art Institute
  • Williams College Museum of Art
 
  Winchester • Griffin Museum of Photography
 
  Worcester • Worcester Art Museum
 

Peabody Essex Museum

Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China

 March 14, 2009 to December 31, 2010

 

 Through delicate works on paper and other select objects, explore four essential motifs Westerners often associate with China — fish, silk, tea, bamboo. Each was cultivated for artistic expression as well as profit. All helped shape the emerging concept of the Middle Kingdom in 18th-century Europe.

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