Stephen Little
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Stephen Little 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. Stephen was raised in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

, Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

, Burma, and Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, not living in the United States until age 11. He initially studied nuclear physics
Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies the building blocks and interactions of atomic nuclei. The most commonly known applications of nuclear physics are nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons technology, but the research has provided application in many fields, including those...

, but changed his major to Chinese art
Chinese art
Chinese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers. Early so-called "stone age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. This early period was followed by a series of art...

. He received a B.A. from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 in 1975, an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 in 1977, and a Ph.D. from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1987. He held curatorial positions at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is a museum in San Francisco, California, United States. It has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world....

 (1977–1982), the Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum situated in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art, the museum houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 43,000...

 (1987–1989), and the Honolulu Academy of Arts
Honolulu Academy of Arts
The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an art museum in Honolulu in the state of Hawaii. Since its founding in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke and opening April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to over 40,000 works of art.-Description:...

 (1989–1994). He held the Pritzker
Pritzker family
The Pritzker family is one of America's wealthiest families, and has been near the top of Forbes magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began in 1982....

 Curatorship of Asian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...

 (1995–2002), prior to becoming Director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts
Honolulu Academy of Arts
The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an art museum in Honolulu in the state of Hawaii. Since its founding in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke and opening April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to over 40,000 works of art.-Description:...

 in 2003. 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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....

.

Dr. Little’s publications include:
  • Bartholomew, Terese Tse, John Johnston and Stephen Little, The Dragon's Gift, the Sacred Arts of Bhutan
    Bhutan
    Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...

    , 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
    Jingdezhen
    Jingdezhen , is a prefecture-level city, previously a town, in Jiangxi Province, China, with a total population of 1,554,000 . It is known as the "Porcelain Capital" because it has been producing quality pottery for 1700 years. The city has a well-documented history that stretches back over 2000...

     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
    Dharma
    Dharma means Law or Natural Law and is a concept of central importance in Indian philosophy and religion. In the context of Hinduism, it refers to one's personal obligations, calling and duties, and a Hindu's dharma is affected by the person's age, caste, class, occupation, and gender...

    , 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
    Neo Rauch
    Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align...

    , Works 1994-2002, The Leipziger Volkseitung Collection
    , Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2005, ISBN 0937426652
  • Little, Stephen, Shawn Eichman & Patricia Ebrey, Taoism
    Taoism
    Taoism refers to a philosophical or religious tradition in which the basic concept is to establish harmony with the Tao , which is the mechanism of everything that exists...

     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
Minimalism
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

 style strongly influenced by East Asian ink and wash painting
Ink and wash painting
Ink and wash painting is an East Asian type of brush painting also known as ink wash painting. Only black ink — the same as used in East Asian calligraphy — is used, in various concentrations....

.

External links

Dr. Little’s website
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