About Us
Chinese Art Adviser and Appraiser
Dr. Wei Yang is a Chinese Art Specialist with a Ph.D in Chinese art and Tibetan Art and a certified Fine and Decorative Art Appraiser. For more than 25 years, Wei Yang has been educating the public about Chinese art. For many years she ran the education division at the Dunhuang Research Academy (Mogao Caves) in Dunhuang (Gansu, China), the largest repository of Buddhist art in the world. She moved to the U.S. and earned a B.A. degree in art history and a M.A.degree in East Asian Buddhist Art at Smith College (Northampton, MA), and completed a Ph.D. degree in Chinese art and Tibetan art at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in 2005. Before she started her own company, WEI YANG CHINESE ART, she held the position of Chinese Art Bibliographer for the Marquand Art Library at Princeton University for two and a half years. Currently, Dr. Yang is an independent scholar, Chinese art adviser and appraiser.
As a professional academic, she is committed to all Chinese artistic traditions, and dedicated to helping others understand and appreciate Chinese art. She appraises Chinese art of all categories, including painting, furniture, woodblock prints, textiles, wood/ivory carvings and scholarly objects (ink stones, brush holders, etc.). Dr. Yang also specializes in Chinese decorative arts, such as screens, jade, kesi tapestries, and Tibetan Buddhist fine arts (Thangkas) and ritual objects.
As a professional appraiser, Dr. Yang earned a certificate of Fine and Decorative Art Appraisal from Pratt Institute in New York in July 2009. In late 2008, she started to take the four Principles of Valuation courses in order to advance her career as a professional appraiser. She successfully completed the four-level-courses for Personal Property Valuation programmed by the American Society of Appraisers, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (2008-2009) administrated by the Appraisal Foundation, and passed a code of ethics exam required by ASA for a professional designation. As an expert Chinese art appraiser, she complies with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (2008-2009) and conforms to the American Society of Appraisers Code of Ethics in her practice.
With a scholarly focus on Chinese painting and Buddhist Art, doctoral training on Chinese art in general, a profound knowledge of the Chinese Art Market and Chinese Art Connoisseurship, as well as a mastery of a few Asian languages, such as Chinese (Both classical and modern), Japanese, and some Tibetan, Dr. Yang guarantees that her clients are offered professional services of the highest quality.
Dr. Yang also guarantees that her customers and art collectors are offered only high-quality paintings that preserve the best of China's artistic traditions. Her background and training assure that she is able to ensure the highest quality of Chinese Paintings as well as the highest quality of Chinese art appraisal and consulting services. In addition to her direct experience of thousands of Chinese paintings at Chinese archaeological sites as well as museums and collections throughout Asia, Europe and North America, she relies on her doctoral training and her personal relationships with our Chinese artists. She travels widely and often, and each year she chooses our artists, deciding on particular styles and inspecting each work before accepting it for inclusion in our gallery.
From WEI YANG CHINESE ART, you buy expertise, originality, and value.
What We Offer
We offer Classical Chinese Paintings and Chinese Landscape Paintings, paintings by many of the same, classically trained artists in China. In creating these new master paintings, each artist exercises greater choice over subject matter and composition. Another category is Contemporary Chinese Art, which are subtle reinterpretations of traditional paintings styles that offer reflection on the place of the artist in modern society. We also have a stock of museum-quality Buddhist Art, which are painted by professional Chinese artists in Sichuan and Gansu. Our Chinese Flower Paintings, with a concentration on many well-known traditional symbolic flower themes, such as plum, lotus, bamboo, peony, etc., are chosen to help you express your heartfelt emotions with style and taste.
WEI YANG CHINESE ART offers expert chosen museum-quality collectible Chinese paintings. Our Chinese art appraisal and consulting services are conducted by Ph.Ds in Chinese art and Chinese history. Expertise, Professionalism and Quality are guaranteed.
