900 years of Chinese painting on exhibition at Elvehjem

Almost a millennium of paintings, gathered during half a century, are on exhibition through Sunday, March 14, at the Elvehjem Museum of Art. “Masterworks of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds” encompasses figure, bird-and-flower and the much-venerated landscape paintings covering the many years between about 1200 and the 1960s. Collected by James Cahill, whose son Nick is an associate professor of art history at UW–Madison, the works were used as teaching tools by the elder Cahill at the University of California-Berkeley.

For information about the collection, visit http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/masterworks/. For information from the Elvehjem about the exhibit or related educational opportunities, see http://www.lvm.wisc.edu, or call 263-2246.