Projects
Our digital partnership with the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library include:
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A new digital platform for cartographic discussion focused on maps in the MacLean Collection written by visiting scholars participating in the MacLean Collection Map Fellowship program.
• A Jain Cosmographic Map of the Rose‑Apple Continent (Jambudvipa)
• Practical Knowledge and the New Republic
• "Encoded Toponyms" in Chinese Administrative Maps
• A World(view) Transformed by War
• Divergent Meanings of Place in Mapping Japan: La Pérouse’s Tangential Encounter
• A Qing Dynasty Imperial Route Map
• Rediscovering a Map of the Amazon
• A Chinese Maritime Map of the Sea and Stars
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Exhibitions
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Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China
Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library, May-August 2024
Re-carving the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes and Jades
Lizzadro Museum, Oak Brook, IL, 12/2019 – 1/2021
Heritage Museum, Chinatown, Chicago
Rats in Chinese Art, 2-5/2020
Pigs in Chinese Art, 3-8/2019
Passion for Form, 2019
Dragons in Chinese Art, 2018
Dogs in Chinese Art, 2-5/2018
Shogun’s World: Japanese Maps of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Hatcher Library, University of Michigan, 9-12/2018
University of Denver Library, 9-12/2017
Art Institute of Chicago, 6-11/2016
Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection
University of Michigan Museum of Art, 11/2016 – 4/2017
Crow Collection of Asian Art, 4-8/2016
Asian Art from the MacLean Collection
Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, 1-2/2016
Chicago International Map Fair
American Presidents and Politics: Selections from the MacLean Collection, 10/2016
Mapping Perspectives and Progress: The Evolution of the Bird’s-Eye View, 10/2015
Celebrating Urban Transformation: 19th Century Maps from the MacLean Collection, 10/2014
Passion for Form: Selections of Southeast Asian Art from the MacLean Collection
Honolulu Academy of Arts, 10/2007 – 1/2008
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 6-9/2007
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New Korean Galleries
Art Institute of Chicago, Ongoing
Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures
LACMA, October, 2024-March, 2025
Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China
Leventhal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library, May-August 2024
Wisconsin Historical Society
Geneva Lake Museum, 5/2019
America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century
Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, 5/2019 – 5/2020
Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors, Scholars and their Bronzes
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2-5/2018
West Mexico: Ritual and Identity
Gilcrease Museum, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, 6-11/2016
Arts of Korea
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 6/2010 – 2/2011
Eternal Presence: Handprints and Footprints in Buddhist Art
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah New York, 10/2004 – 1/2005
Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1-5/2005
Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, 6-9/2005
Publications
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Bergmann, Craig, Buvala, Russell, Pegg, Richard A., Mary Ann’s Garden, MacLean Collection, 2017.
Yin, Tongyun and Pegg, Richard A., Highlights of Asian Art (E-book), MacLean Collection, 2015.
Pegg, Richard A., Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps, MacLean Collection, 2014.
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Pegg, Richard A., “A Korean Star Chart Screen from the Mid-18th Century,” Orientations, November/December, 2024, vol 55, No. 6, 48-54
Pegg, Richard A., “The Blue Terrestrial Map of China in the WereldMuseum, Leiden.” Provenance, WereldMuseum, Leiden, no. 5, 2024
Pegg, Richard A., “Historical Mapping of Guangdong and Guangzhou,” Orientations, vol. 54, September-October, 2023, 93-103.
Pegg, Richard A. “Mapping Seoul in the Nineteenth Century,” Orientations, Vol. 53, no. 5, September-October, 2022, 117-24.
Sun Wenbo 孙闻博, A Study of the Central Service Office Iron Sword from the Third Year of the Xiping Era in the Eastern Han: With a Discussion on Iron Casting Technology in Early China. 《东汉熹平三年中尚方铁剑考>《东汉熹平三年中尚方铁剑考——兼论中国古代的灌钢工艺》《出土文献》2022年3期，143-152页、封底
Pegg, Richard A. “Early Pottery Traditions of the Pearl River Valley and Red River Valley Delta,” Orientations, Vol. 52, no. 1, Jan/Feb, 2021, 30-37.
Pegg, Richard A. Passion for Form: Selections of Southeast Asian Art from the MacLean Collection, exh. cat., Heritage Museum, 2019.
Reinhartz, Dennis. “A Rare Surviving Copper Plate by Hermon Moll,” The Portolan, Issue 103, Winter 2018, 55-9.
Pegg, Richard A. “Chinese Maps, Trade Networks and the Philippines,” ex. cat. Insulae Indiae Orientalis, Ayala Museum and RLI Gallery Systems Inc., 2018, ch. 10, 107-17.
Pegg, Richard A. "Nagasaki, Maps and Trade in the Pacific Rim", Orientations, vol. 48, no. 6, November/December 2017, 100-06.
Pegg, Richard A. “Objects from the Bronze Cultures of Southwest China and Southeast Asia in the Maclean Collection,” Anthology for the 60th Anniversary of the Archeological Discovery of Shizhaishan, Yunnan Provincial Museum, 2017, 32-42 (in Chinese).
Pegg, Richard A. “Ceramic Cartography: Japanese Map Plates in the Tenpo Era (1830-44),” Orientations, vol. 47, no. 5, June 2016, 69-76.
Pegg, Richard A. “World View: Early Nineteenth Century Mapmaking in Japan,” Orientations, vol. 46, no. 4, May 2015, 65-70.
Hall, Tom. “The MacLean Map Library,” The Old Map, Summer 2015, 74-79.
Pegg, Richard A. “Cheonhado of the Late Joseon Period,” The Old Map, Winter 2014, 18-26.
Pegg, Richard A. “World Views: Late 18th Century Approaches to Mapmaking in China and Britain,” Orientations, vol. 44, no. 3, April 2013, 84-9.
Pegg, Richard A. "Ancient Chinese Bronze Swords in the MacLean Collection," Journal of Asian Martial Arts, vol. 20, no. 2, Spring 2011.
Pegg, Richard A. “Imperial Touring and the Empire: MacLean Collection Maps of the Qianlong Empire,” Kaikodo Journal, Spring 2011, 15–23.
Hinuber, Oskar von. “An Inscribed Incense Burner from the MacLean Collection in Chicago,” Annual Report of the International Institute for Advanced Buddhology, vol. XIII, March 2010.
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