Quiet Visions: Chinese Album Painting from Ming to Qing

This exhibition presents a rare selection of Chinese album leaves from the Ming through the Qing dynasty (14th–19th Century) from Mia’s collection. 

Intended for intimate viewing by hand, album leaves fostered quiet reflection and close looking. Within these modest formats, artists condensed expansive worlds into refined spaces filled with landscapes, flowers, birds, and poetic scenes.

The exhibition juxtaposes the meticulous elegance of court academy gongbi painting with the expressive freedom of literati xieyi styles. Executed on silk and paper with ink and color, these works reveal centuries of technical mastery, literary imagination, and contemplative artistic vision.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website