Gifts from several notable donors such as the distinguished Oberlin College history professor Frederick Binkerd Artz (OC 1916), Charles F. Olney, and Paul F. Walter (OC 1957) form the core of the museum’s current South and Southeast Asian art holdings. The collection includes examples of Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from a variety of historical periods. On display in the exhibition “A Museum for Oberlin” is a selection of Indian miniature paintings that amplified the museum’s holdings expanded the range of subject matter and regional styles represented in the collection. In addition, the AMAM owns a number of preparatory drawings for miniature paintings that help teach students about the creative processes used to develop these works.
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Indian, Mughal Dynasty (1526 - 1858)
A Lady Separated from her Lover is Consoled by a Maid from a Nayak-Nayika Bhed, Virahini Nayika, ca. 1680
Tempera, gold, and ink
Paul F. Walter Fund, AMAM 1969.40
