Stephen Allee
Stephen D. Allee is associate curator of Chinese painting and calligraphy at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. In 1975, he received his B.A. in Chinese language and literature from George Washington University, Washington D.C. Selected as a fellow by the Committee for Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China (National Academy of Sciences), he was among the first eight graduate students from the United States to study in the People’s Republic of China, attending the University of Nanjing from 1979 to 1980. After receiving his Ph.D. candidacy (1983) and master’s degree from the University of Washington (1986), Allee joined the Freer and Sackler galleries in August 1988. Since then, he has curated or co-curated almost thirty exhibitions at the museums, and his research and translations from the Chinese have appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications, including Challenging the Past: The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien (University of Washington Press, 1991), Brushing the Past: Later Chinese Calligraphy from the Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (Freer Gallery of Art, 2000), In Pursuit of Heavenly Harmony: Paintings and Calligraphy by Bada Shanren from the Estate of Wang Fangyu and Sum Wai (Freer Gallery of Art, 2003), and most recently in the online Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy web resource (February 2010), which featured more than 1000 pages of detailed documentation, transcriptions, and translation.
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