Met museum showcases Ming art collection from Hong Kong

The acclaimed Hong Kong collection of Ming loyalist art is on view at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Running until January 2, 2012, the exhibition showcases more than 60 landscape paintings and calligraphies collected by late Hong Kong philanthropist Ho Iu-kwong.

Drawn from one of the finest and most comprehensive private assemblages of the art of the Ming-Qing transition, “The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection” highlights the intensely personal styles created by leading artists of that time. Particularly noteworthy are clusters of exceptional works by Huang Daozhou, Hongren, Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) and Shitao.

Financial Secretary John C. Tsang at the exhibition. On his left is Research Associate of the MET's Department of Asian Art Dr. Shi-yee Liu, who guided the tour.

During his recent visit to New York, Hong Kong Financial Secretary John C. Tsang also visited the exhibition on September 21.

The exhibition, recently on view at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, opened September 7 at the Met. The exhibition was organized by Chih Lo Lou Art Promotion (non-profit-making), and the Hong Kong Museum of Art, which is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.