J. Keith Wilson
Scope and Contents note
No defined schema was evident for the files when they entered the archives collection. Where discernable, files were separated by corresponding curator and processed as a subseries. A subseries of files containing correspondence between multiple curators and a single person or institution was created. Documents from this subseries deemed important were pulled and given their own folder. Internal correspondence is chiefly separated by department, but also by Asian Department curator. This series is arranged alphabetically thereafter chronologically, with the exception of the Stephen Little and J. Keith Wilson subseries which are arranged chronologically by year thereafter alphabetically.
Dates
- Majority of material found within Bulk, 1975-2003
- 1952-2005
Conditions Governing Access note
Subject to review by archives staff. For more information or to access this collection contact archives staff at archives2@clevelandart.org.
Biographical/Historical note
J. Keith Wilson joined the Cleveland Museum of Art as Assistant Curator of Chinese Art in October 1988. A doctoral candidate at Princeton University, Wilson received an M.A. degree in Chinese and Japanese art and archaeology from Princeton in 1985, an M.A. degree in Far Eastern art history from the University of Michigan in 1983, and a B.A. in Chinese studies from Williams College in 1978. Before coming to Cleveland, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From 1985-1986 he was a visiting research scholar at Tokyo University’s Institute of Oriental Culture. Wilson is fluent in both Chinese and Japanese, a point he routinely made in correspondence. In 1996, he left the museum for a position at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Extent
From the Collection: 47.5 Cubic feet (95 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Chou, Ju-hsi (Person)
- From the Collection: Cunningham, Michael R. (Person)
- From the Collection: Czuma, Stanislaw J. (1935-) (Person)
- From the Collection: Ho, Wai-kam (1925-2004) (Person)
- From the Collection: Lee, Sherman E. (1918-2008) (Person)
- From the Collection: Lerner, Martin (Person)
- From the Collection: Pearlstein, Elinor L. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilson, J. Keith (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives Repository