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One of the world's most sign flcant private collections of the art of India and Nepal wil receive its exclusive Southerr showing at the Virginia Museum Sept. 11.
"The Arts of India and Nepal: the Nasli and Alice Heerama neck Collection" contains nearly 300 art treasures spanning a period of 4,000 years. Critic Milo C. Beach, writing in Connoisseur magazine, called it “one of the most important and most comprehensive exhibitions of Indian art ever assembled in the Unitec States." The exhibition debuted^last fall at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it was organized. Since then it has appeared at the Los Angeles County Museum and the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts. Following the Virginia Museum showing, it will be sent to the Royal Ontario Museum of the University of Toronto, where it will close. So that it will be able to contain the immense exhibition, the museum’s loan gallery | is now undergoing special renj novations and expansion. The (enlarged gallery will hold 274 objects, including sculptures in stone, bronze, terra cotta, wood, and stucco; palm leaf manuscripts and book covers I from Nepal and Eastern India; exotically-colored tankas (Buddhist banner paintings on cloth); Indian paintings and manuscripts; works of decorative art; and textiles. | Because of the unusual exipense of bringing such a large (exhibition to Virginia and of installing it. a charge of 50 cents will be made for nonmembers. Members will be ^admitted free, as will children who are part of organized tours during closed hours. ! The exhibition will remain on display thrugh Oct. 15.
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