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Founded in 1981, Kang Collection is the foremost Korean art gallery in the United States, specializing exclusively in Korean paintings, calligraphy and objects from the Proto-Three Kingdoms to the present. Kang Collection has been a reputable source of the finest Korean masterpieces for over two decades, counting among its clients many major international museums and the world's most respected private collectors.
Works have been acquired from Kang Collection by the world’s finest museums and most renowned collectors, including:
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University
The British Museum
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Freer & Sackler Galleries at The Smithsonian Institution
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University
The Honolulu Academy of the Arts
LACMA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Newark Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Art Museum
RISD Art Museum
San Antonio Museum of Art
The Seattle Art Museum
The Victoria & Albert Museum
The John Weber Collection
The Worcester Museum
About Keum Ja Kang
Gallery founder and president Keum Ja Kang received her M.A. in Far Eastern Art History from Columbia University, where she completed her thesis on artistic motifs of Korea’s Three-Kingdom Period. She holds a B. A. in Western Art History and completed undergraduate studies at Seoul National University. Mrs. Kang frequently serves as a consultant to leading museums, for whom she verifies the authenticity of Korean objects and paintings.
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