Chinese Art Expert To Speak At Ringling

Every collection starts with a collector, and America’s fascination with collecting Chinese art can be traced back to one man: C.T. Loo.
A Chinese native, Loo began a career in the art trade in Paris in 1915, but soon turned his attention to United States, where he brought the first ancient Chinese bronzes, jades and sculptures that Americans had ever seen.
His life and influence on the U.S. art scene are the topic of a Ringling ViewPoint lecture, “Mammon and the Muse: C.T. Loo and the Formation of the Chinese Art Collection at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1915-1951,” by Daisy Yiyou Wang, Ph.D., Chinese art project specialist at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington. The lecture is hosted by the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 7 p.m. Thursday in the Historic Asolo Theater.
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