The six-year-old National Museum of American Illustration says it has entered into a “major cooperative agreement” with the Shanghai Art Museum, following a recent trip to China and Taiwan by co-founders Judy and Laurence Cutler.
The pact is the first ever between an American art museum and a Chinese art museum for an exhibition of American art in China, the Cutlers said. It is intended to foster broad cultural exchange between the People’s Republic of China and the United States.
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The Newport museum will prepare a traveling exhibition of American illustration to be hosted at the Shanghai Art Museum in 2007. Conversely, an exhibition of the major Chinese illustrator Zhang Le Ping is to be hosted at the Newport museum in 2008.
“We received the most wonderful reception in our travels through China, with incredible interest everywhere in American illustration art, as historical artifacts of our American culture, our civilization illustrated,” said Laurence Cutler. “We are most honored to be chosen by the Shanghai Art Museum as their partner in this major cultural exchange”.
