"It's what I see first and how I begin to understand almost everything I see."
Curator of Asian art Denise Leidy uses gesture as the key to unlocking narratives in works of art.
Connections: Gesture
Curator of Asian art Denise Leidy uses gesture as the key to unlocking narratives in works of art.
Denise Patry Leidy
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Denise Patry Leidy
Curator, Department of Asian Art
Curator, Department of Asian Art
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Mary Cassatt
1898
Tōshūsai Sharaku
1794
India (Rajasthan, Kishangarh)
ca. 1735
Indian (Tamil Nadu)
ca. 11th century
India (Tamil Nadu, Pudukkottai and Tanjavur districts)
early 12th century
China
12th century
Hon'ami Kōetsu
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
dated 1606
China
late 17th–18th century
Las Bocas artist(s)
1200–800 BCE
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)
1530s
Riza-yi 'Abbasi
dated 1039 AH/1630 CE
9th century
Master Heinrich of Constance
ca. 1310–20
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
1921; revised 1923: this cast 1924