Jesse Wells Post Professor of Art and Professor of East Asian Studies

Office: Hillyer 305
Hours: , and by appointment
Phone: (413) 585-3138
Email: mrhie@email.smith.edu

Marylin Rhie offers courses in the art of Asia. In collaboration with Professor Robert Thurman of Columbia University she curated a major exhibition of Tibetan art (Wisdom and Compassion, the Sacred Art of Tibet) and co-authored a book with the same title. With Professor Thurman she also wrote a book on the Rubin collection of Tibetan painting, Worlds of Transformation (1999). She is currently completing volume II of a series (published by Brill in Leiden) entitled Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia.

M.A., Ph.D. University of Chicago