Meet Our Chinese Art Specialist
Dr. Wei Yang is a Chinese art specialist with a Ph.D in Chinese art and Tibetan Art. She is also a certified Fine and Decorative Art Appraiser. 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.
Dr. Yang has had a long and successful career in different aspects of Chinese art and art connoisseurship. 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. Subsequently she moved to the U.S. and earned a B.A. degree in art history and an M.A. degree in East Asian 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 art consulting & appraisal 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.
Dr. Yang has never stopped sharpening her consulting & appraisal skills. She dedicated herself to the study of the Principles of Valuation by attending professional educational programs. She earned a certificate of Fine and Decorative Art Appraisal from Pratt Institute in New York in 2009. She successfully completed the four courses for Personal Property Valuation jointly offered by American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and Pratt Institute. She passed the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) exam developed by the Appraisal Foundation, an organization authorized by the U.S. Congress as the source of appraisal standards and appraisal qualifications, and the code of ethics exam administered by the American Society of Appraisers. She also took courses centering on the current art market. As an expert appraiser specializing in Chinese art, she complies with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) in her report preparation and conforms to the Code of Ethics in her practice. She limits her practice largely to the areas in which she is qualified, by dint of her Ph.D., M.A. and her research experience: Chinese and Tibetan Art.
Dr. Yang is an independent scholar, Chinese art adviser and certified appraiser. As an academic, she has committed herself to all Chinese artistic traditions, and dedicated herself to helping others understand and appreciate Chinese art. With a scholarly focus on Chinese painting and Buddhist art, doctoral training in Chinese art in general, up-to-date knowledge of the Chinese art market and Chinese art connoisseurship, as well as abilities in reading, speaking, and writing several Asian languages (Chinese, both classical and modern, Japanese, and some Tibetan), Dr. Yang guarantees that her clients are offered professional consulting and appraisal services of the highest quality.
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