Exhibitions

Chinese Calligraphy

May 9, 1980 – November 10, 1980

Freer Gallery of Art
Jefferson Drive and 12th St., SW
Washington, DC

Gallery 13

See on Map Floor Plan

On view are 28 written scrolls and rubbings in a major exhibition of calligraphy, regarded by the Chinese as the supreme artistic achievement. On display for the first time is a 4th-century rubbing, the only surviving version of a work by the co-founder of a school of calligraphy. A selection of writing instruments supplements the exhibit.