Gateway to Himalayan Art is a traveling exhibition for colleges, universities, and art museums that introduces the main forms, concepts, meanings, and living traditions of Himalayan art. It is part of the Rubin’s flagship educational initiative Project Himalayan Art: a resource that aims to support the inclusion of Tibetan, Himalayan, and Inner Asian art and cultures into undergraduate teaching on Asia as well as present Himalayan art to the general public.
Tibet
18th century
Tibet
15th century
China or Inner Mongolia
18th century
Tibet
17th century
Tibet
early 20th century
Tibet
17th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet
19th century
Tibet
15th century
Eastern Tibet
19th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet
19th century
Nepal
Dated by inscription, 1822
Tibet
ca. 18th century
Nepal
13th century
Nepal
17th century
Tibet
17th century
Tibet
ca. 16th-17th century
Tibet
18th century
Tibet
Unknown
Tibet
17th century
Nepal
Dated by inscription, 1818
Nepal
ca. 17th century
Nepal
Dated by inscription 1796
Nepal
15th century
Tibet
18th century
Tibet or China
17th century
Eastern Tibet
early 20th century
Eastern Tibet
18th century
Tibet
16th century
Central Tibet
18th century
Tibet
17th - 18th century
Eastern Tibet, Kham Province
19th century
Nepal
17th - 18th century
Mongolia
19th century
Himalayan Region
ca. 19th century
Himalayan Region
ca. 19th century
Tibet
16th century
Tibet
13th century
Himalayan Region
ca. 19th–early 20th century
Himalayan Region
ca. 18th–19th century
Tibet
ca. 13th-14th century
China
17th century
Tibet
ca. 14th century
Tibet
ca. 14th century
Tsang Province, Central Tibet
18th century
Eastern Tibet, Kham Province, Derge Printing House
after 1960
Tibet
20th century
Nepal or Tibet
14th century
Nepal
19th century
Nepal
Dated by inscription, 1902
Tibet
17th century
Tibet
16th century
Tibet
20th century
Tibet
18th century
Tibet
18th century
Nepal
ca. 18th century
Central Tibet
Early 20th century
Tibet
14th century
Tibet
dated 1864
Eastern Tibet
18th century
Tibet
18th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet
19th century
Mongolia
18th century
Rebgong county, Qinghai Province, China
2012-2013
Tibet
18th century
Tibet
Unknown
Central Tibet
19th century
Tibet
14th-15th century
China
second half of the 15th century
China (or Eastern Tibet)
ca. 19th century
Eastern Tibet
19th century
Tibet
early 20th century
Tibet
19th century
Central Tibet
late 18th-19th century
Tibet
18th century
Tibet
18th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet
19th century
Tibet
18th century
Tibet
Second half of 20th century
Tibet
17th century
Himalayan
ca. 17th century
Nepal
17th century
Tibet
16th century
Tibet
17th century
Tibet
19th century
Medical instruments; 18th-19th century; metal; LTL2022.2.1.a-i; long-term loan from Eugene and Leonid Lantsman
Avalokiteshvara; 2022; Pigments on cotton, silk brocade; Rubin Museum of Art, SC2022.1-.4
The Stages of Nepalese Lost-Wax Metal Casting; Nepal; 2022; wax, clay, metal alloy; SC2022.2.1–.6; Rubin Museum of Art; Photos by Ryan Hulvat, Courtesy of Lehigh University Art Galleries, 2023, and Sharif Hassan
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