statue near the museum entrance
Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas

Fabled Journeys in Asian Art: South and Southeast Asia

Saturday, January 1, 2011 - Monday, July 30, 2012

Previously on view at The Crow Museum at the Dallas Arts District

Title: Shiva and Uma (Parvati) Culture/Country: India Period: Mughal Period,16th -17th Century Medium: Bronze Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 7 x 14 in. Collection Title: Crow Collection of Asian Art Accession Number: 1981.22
Title: Ganesha Cultue/Countru: Nepal Period: 19th century Medium: Repoussé gilt-metal Collection Title: Crow Collection of Asian Art Accession Number: 1982.12
Title: Prince Siddhartha leaves the palace Culture/Country: India Period: Kushan period (3rd/4th century) Medium: Schist Dimensions: 7 x 4 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. Collection Title: Crow Collection of Asian Art Accession Number: 1982.70
Title: Manjushri Triad with Ganesha And Mahakalav Culture/Country: Nepal Period: 18th Century Medium: Sandstone with traces of pigment Dimensions: 9 x 3 x 14 3/4 in. Collection Title: Crow Collection of Asian Art Accession Number: 1983.17
Title: Standing Vishnu Culture/Country: Cambodia Period: Khmer period, 7th century Medium: Sandstone Dimensions: 38 x 19 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. Collection Title: Crow Collection of Asian Art Accession Number: 1999.30

This winter, the museum offers up Fabled Journeys in Asian Art, drawn from the Crow Collection.  In works of art from all around Asia–paintings, fans, sculpture, carvings for the hand, furniture for the desk–rocks, jades, crystals, and corals– journeys of many kinds are traced.  Wide rivers are crossed on a reed, deep caves explored in the whitest jade; cities visited under golden clouds.  Love is found on a mountaintop, babies are borne aloft in baskets, avatars descend to combat unrighteousness, pilgrims abandon home for a blessing, minds turn within to combat error. Journeys, it is acknowledged, bring change; follow some well-worn paths in fabled journeys from the cultures of Asia, and pave a road of your own.