Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks

Saturday, 22 October 2005 12:15

SAN DIEGO, CA.-The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) announces the launch of an internationally touring exhibition featuring 125 of the finest examples from its extensive collection of paintings from India. Titled Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting. With more than 1,450 examples, the San Diego Museum of Art’s Edwin Binney 3rd Collection is renowned worldwide as one of the largest and most important concentrations of South Asian painting outside of India. Domains of Wonder will be the first exhibition to fully survey the richness and depth of this remarkable collection by presenting 123 paintings and 2 bound manuscripts, ranging in date from the 14th through early 20th centuries. Dr. Binney devoted more than 20 years of his life to amassing this truly encyclopedic collection, selecting works of the highest quality and greatest importance. The comprehensive nature of this collection is unique in its ability to provide a complete overview of Indian court painting with examples representing the best of each school. The Binney Collection - In 1990 the San Diego Museum of Art became home to one of the world’s finest collections of South Asian art when 1,453 works left to the Museum as a bequest by the late Edwin Binney 3rd (1925–1986), heir to the Crayola fortune, officially became part of SDMA’s permanent collection. The works in the collection range in date from the 6th through 20th centuries, with the strength of the collection in paintings from India from the 15th through 19th centuries. The 70 works in this thematic exhibition explored the dynamics of relationships between rulers and subjects, lovers and their beloved, and gods and humans.

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