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In total, Avery Brundage donated more than 7,700 Asian art objects to the City of San Francisco—all housed at the Asian Art Museum. Today, the museum’s collection stands at more than eighteen thousand objects, making it the largest museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the arts of Asia.
- About the Asian Art Museum - Asian Art Museum
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco strives to be...
- Avery Brundage – Zero to 50+ Timeline - Asian Art Museum
Inspired by the first major exhibition of imperial Chinese...
- About the Asian Art Museum - Asian Art Museum
Jun 15, 2020 · The Asian Art Museum plans to remove a bust of Avery Brundage, its founding patron, whose racist and anti-Semitic views were criticized. Jay Xu, its director, called Brundage “a hateful...
Jul 17, 2020 · Avery Brundage bust (1972), by Jean Sprenger, at the Asian Art Museum (all photos courtesy the Asian Art Museum) SAN FRANCISCO — Avery Brundage, president of the International...
The Avery Brundage Collection, B60B1034. A Milestone of Chinese Buddhist Art. Made 400 years after Buddhism was introduced to China from India, this is the earliest known dated Buddha sculpture produced in China.
Brundage used a big part of his wealth to accumulate a collection of Asian art that Life called “one of the largest and most important in private hands in this country.”. Its works spanned the continent, coming from not only Japan, Korea, and China, but also Southeast Asia, India, Tibet, and Persia.
