Dr. Marcus Jacobson Papers of 20th Century Contemporary Artist Gu Wenda

This collection was created and collected by the late Dr. Marcus Jacobson. It consists of materials relating to contemporary Chinese artist Gu Wenda, whom Dr. Jacobson supported in Gu's early days (mid-1980s) by purchasing works and trying to interest fellow US and Canadian academics (Dr. Jacobson was a well-known neuroscientist) in Gu's works. This collection includes an original catalogue of Gu's first exhibition in North America at York University in Toronto to which Marcus contributed. Along with a few other items of similar nature including: correspondence from Gu to Dr. Jacobson, a letter from Dr. Jacobson to his art colleagues, and 2 photographs of Gu.

Dr. Marcus Jacobson biographical note

FSA A2009.05

Jacobson, Marcus, 1930-2001

York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery

Gu, Wenda, 1955-

China

Canada -- Ontario -- Toronto

Art, Modern -- 20th century

Box 1

Gift of Ruth A. Kurzbauer-Jacobson.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Letters

Exhibition catalogs

Photographs

Chromogenic color prints

Correspondence

Dr. Marcus Jacobson Papers of 20th Century Contemporary Artist Gu Wenda. FSA.A2009.05. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Organized by document type: correspondence, notes, catalog, photographs.

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Chromogenic color prints

Exhibition catalogs

Correspondence -- 20th century

Collection is open for research.