Stephen Little

Stephen Little (born 1954) is an American Asian art scholar, museum administrator and artist.

Dr. Little's father was a linguist and cultural attaché for the government of the United States.^[1] Stephen was raised in Indonesia, Cambodia, Burma, and Turkey, not living in the United States until age 11. He initially studied nuclear physics, but changed his major to Chinese art.^[2] He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1975, an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1987. He held curatorial positions at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (1977–1982), the Cleveland Museum of Art (1987–1989), and the Honolulu Academy of Arts (1989–1994). He held the Pritzker Curatorship of Asian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (1995–2002), prior to becoming Director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts in 2003.^[3] In 2011, Dr. Little left Hawaii to become department head and curator of Chinese and Korean art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Dr. Little’s publications include:

• Bartholomew, Terese Tse, John Johnston and Stephen Little, The Dragon's Gift, the Sacred Arts of Bhutan, Chicago, Serindia Publications, 2008.
• Butler, Michael, Julia B. Curtis, & Stephen Little, Treasures from an unknown reign, Shunzhi porcelain, 1644-1661, Alexandria, Va., Art Services International, 2002, ISBN 0295982136
• Butler, Michael, Margaret Medley & Stephen Little, Seventeenth-century Chinese porcelain from the Butler family collection, Alexandria, Va., Art Services International, 1990.
• Curtis, Julia B. & Stephen Little, Chinese porcelains of the seventeenth century, landscapes, scholars' motifs and narratives, New York City, China Institute Gallery, 1995, ISBN 0295974672
• Curtis, Julia B., Stephen Little & Mary Ann Rogers, Trade taste and transformation, Jingdezhen porcelain for Japan, 1620-1645, New York, China Institute Gallery, 2006. ISBN 0977405400
• Little, Stephen, The Alsdorf collection of Japanese paintings, Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2003, ISBN 0937426601
• Little, Stephen, Chinese ceramics of the transitional period, 1620-1683, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1983.
• Little, Stephen, Realm of the immortals, Daoism in the arts of China, the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 10-April 10, 1988, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1988, ISBN 0910386927
• Little, Stephen, Spirit stones of China, the Ian and Susan Wilson collection of Chinese stones, paintings, and related scholars' objects, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1999, ISBN 0865591733
• Little, Stephen, Visions of the Dharma, Japanese Buddhist paintings and prints in the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1991, ISBN 0937426148
• Little, Stephen and Peter Ruthenberg, Neo Rauch, Works 1994-2002, The Leipziger Volkseitung Collection, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2005, ISBN 0937426652
• Little, Stephen, Shawn Eichman & Patricia Ebrey, Taoism and the arts of China, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, ISBN 0520227840
• Little, Stephen, Richard Fabian & Janet Carpenter, New songs on ancient tunes, 19th-20th century Chinese paintings and calligraphy from the Richard Fabian collection, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007, ISBN 9780937426791
• Pal, Pratapaditya & Stephen Little, A collecting odyssey, Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf collection, New York, N.Y., Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997, ISBN 0500974543

Dr. Little as an artist

Dr. Little has painted all his adult life. He currently works in a minimalist style strongly influenced by East Asian ink and wash painting.

References

External links

Dr. Little’s website