Jack Daulton

James (Jack) Daulton (born October 30, 1956) is an American art collector, trial lawyer, music entrepreneur, exploration philanthropist, and expert and lecturer on the history of art and architecture. Daulton rose to fame representing the nation of Myanmar in the groundbreaking 1994 legal case, United States v. Richard Diran and The Union of Myanmar, successfully recovering a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue that had been stolen in 1988 from a temple in Myanmar's ancient capital, Bagan, a treasure now on display in the National Museum in Yangon.[1][2] This was the first cultural property claim litigated by a Southeast Asian nation in the United States. Daulton has also gained recognition as a result of the Daulton Collection–his vast art collection which includes one of the world's largest private collections of German Symbolist art and, in particular, the world's largest collection of works by a number of individual artists, such as the eccentric monkey painter Gabriel von Max, the Austrian symbolist Rudolf Jettmar, and the proto-hippie Fidus.[3][4] Among the Daulton Collection's highlights are masterpieces of symbolist portraiture, including Karl Gussow's Portrait of the Novelist Ossip Schubin (1887), Rudolf Jettmar's Self-Portrait of the Young Artist (1896), and Oskar Zwintscher's The Woman in Hamster (Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Adele) (1914). [3] In addition, Daulton is well known as an expert on non-western art, architecture, and religion, acclaimed for his many lectures on those subjects for institutions such as National Geographic, The American Museum of Natural History, and The Art Institute of Chicago. [5] He is also well known for his activity in exploration philanthropy, funding research expeditions around the globe, from archaeological digs in the Peruvian Andes to language documentation projects on remote atolls in Micronesia. [6] [7] And as an art and entertainment lawyer in the 1990s, Daulton developed the major-label rock band Kill Hannah, among other recording artists.[8][9]

For other people with the same name, see James Dalton and Jack Dalton.
James (Jack) Daulton
Born (1956-10-30) October 30, 1956
NationalityUnited States
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
OccupationArt Historian, Art Collector, Trial Lawyer
Known forThe Daulton Collection
Websitewww.thedaultoncollection.comwww.symbolismus.com www.gabrielvonmax.com

Education

Daulton received his B.S., with honors, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978 and his J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1981. Daulton later attended graduate school at Northern Illinois University where he studied the history of Southeast Asian art under the supervision of Professor Richard Cooler, then Director of the Center for Burma studies, and, having been awarded a FLAS fellowship,[10] studied the Burmese language under the supervision of Professor Saya U Saw Tun. During his time at NIU, Daulton undertook fieldwork in Myanmar and India, researching, documenting, and publishing, in the Journal of Burma Studies, the story of the Relics of Sariputta and Moggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples, at the Kaba Aye Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.[11]

In 1991, an ancient Buddha statue from a Burmese temple was identified in a Sotheby's auction catalog by an NIU professor specializing in Burmese art, Dr. Richard Cooler. After the FBI tried unsuccessfully for 3 years to prove that the statue was stolen, they enlisted Dr. Cooler to help demonstrate the origins of the statue. Cooler contacted his former student, Daulton, both a specialist in Burmese art and a litigator, to represent Myanmar in the case. Daulton and Cooler were able to demonstrate that the statue, which had been broken off at the legs, matched up with the lower third of the statue that still stood in the temple in Myanmar.[12][13] The national treasure was returned with great gratitude from the Burmese government.[14][15] The case was highly publicized, a reflection of growing interest in the return of stolen ancient cultural properties to their countries of origin.[16][17][18]

The Daulton Collection

The Daulton Collection is an eclectic collection of art and artifacts from all over the world. The current acquisitional focus of the collection is symbolist art, of which the collection contains several notable works including "Hexenwald" ("Witch of the Woods") by Julie Wolfthorn, as well as the largest collection of Gabriel von Max works in the world. Pieces from the collection are frequently featured in exhibitions in Europe and the US. A 2011 exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington entitled Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul featured the Daulton Collection's many works by the artist.[19][20]

Exploration Philanthropy

With his partner, software executive Roz Ho, Daulton has funded research expeditions around the globe, particularly in the fields of archaeology and linguistics. Expeditions funded by Daulton include the following:

  • July-August 2016, Wiracochan Archeological expedition: expedition to excavate, survey, and map Inca and pre-Inca sites on a mountain called Wiracochan in the Vilcabamba mountain range of the Peruvian Andes (Peter Frost expedition leader).[23][24]
  • July 2018, Pico Cão Grande Climbing Expedition: expedition to make the first American free climb of Pico Cão Grande, a 1,200-foot volcanic spire arising from the rainforest on Sao Tome (Island) off of the equatorial coast of west Africa.[26][27]

Daulton and his partner Roz Ho, as executive producers, also funded short documentary films arising out of the Wiracochan and Pico Cão Grande expeditions: “Vilcabamba – A Sacred Valley,” 2018, directors Kyle McBurnie and Kevin Floerke;[28] “Nubivagant 360 VR,” 2019, director Jacob Kupferman (Official Selection Horsetooth International Film Festival 2019, Official Selection Edmonton Short Film Festival 2019, Official Selection and Finalist NZ Web Fest 2019, Official Selection Woodbury Film Festival 2020, Official Selection and Best VR Documentary FAFF Fine Arts Film Festival 2020, Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Venice, CA, and Official Selection New Media Film Festival Los Angeles 2021);[26][29][30][31][32] [33][34][35] "Why We Climb," director Jacob Kupferman (Finalist, 2019 Roam Awards); [36][37] and "Nubivigant," director Jacob Kupferman (Official Selection Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoor Film Festival 2020).[38]

Daulton and his partner Roz Ho have also provided financial support to paleoanthropological research and exploration undertaken by the Institute of Human Origins (Donald Johanson, founding director), Arizona State University, where Daulton is on the Research Council,[39] and at the Turkana Basin Institute (Louise Leakey, director), Stony Brook University.[40] In addition, Daulton has provided significant funding to the Last Mile Technology Program (photographer Chris Rainier, director), supplying indigenous groups with modern technology to document their traditional culture.[41]

Daulton is a member of the Explorers Club.

Personal life

Daulton currently resides in Los Altos Hills, California with his longtime partner, pioneering software executive Roz Ho (currently VP, Hewlett Packard, formerly VP, Microsoft, Ericsson, and TiVo), a 2018 Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductee.[42] He has two children: Dr. Melanie Daulton (MD, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago) and Sam Daulton (research scientist, Facebook), both elite rock climbers.[43][44][45][46]

References
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  2. "Buddha Statue Incites Art War". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-05-30. Retrieved 2016-10-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. http://www.gabrielvonmax.com
  5. "National Geographic Expeditions".
  6. https://www.peterfrost.org/expeditions/expedition-2016/team-member-biographies/
  7. https://livingtongues.org/category/gregory-d-s-anderson/page/3/
  8. A Conversation with Musician Mat Devine of Kill Hannah, Part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn3IMAcqlAA&t=11s
  9. A Conversation with Musician Mat Devine, Part 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cILG46x4M14
  10. https://commons.lib.niu.edu/bitstream/handle/10843/16024/Mandala%2311-1992Fall.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  11. Jack Daulton, "Sariputta and Moggallana in the Golden Land: The Relics of the Buddha's Chief Disciples at the Kaba Aye Pagoda," The Journal of Burma Studies, Vol. 4, 1999, at 101-128, https://www.niu.edu/burma/publications/jbs/vol4/Abstract4_DaultonOpt.pdf
  12. "NIU Burma Studies directors rescue, return 1,000-year-old Buddha statue to Myanmar". niutoday. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  13. "Northern Illinois University Brochure" (PDF).
  14. https://www.arcsinfo.org/news-events/entry/74/myanmar-buddha-sculpture-returns-home-after-wild-ride
  15. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2013/1102/Myanmar-Buddha-sculpture-returns-home-after-wild-ride
  16. "POOR NATIONS FIGHT TO GET STOLEN LOOT RETURNED". DeseretNews.com. 1995-03-05. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  17. "Unesco Convention of 1970: Report by Myanmar on the Implementation of the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property" (PDF).
  18. "Turning the Wheel of the Law: The Quest to Recover the Image of the Standing Buddha," documentary film directed by Lori Liggett and Laura Vazquez (Twisted Sisters Production, 1996)
  19. "Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul | FRYE". Frye Art Museum. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  20. Villarreal, Ignacio. "Frye Art Museum Presents Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul". artdaily.com. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  21. https://livingtongues.wordpress.com/category/language-hotspots/
  22. https://livingtongues.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/micronesia/
  23. https://www.peterfrost.org/expeditions/expedition-2016/
  24. http://instituteofandeanstudies.org/images/IAS2017-Program.pdf
  25. https://livingtongues.org/arunachal2016/
  26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqFKAab-OvA
  27. http://www.wanderingintheclouds.com
  28. https://vimeo.com/274286358
  29. https://www.horsetoothfilmfestival.com/program
  30. https://esff.ca/film-makers/2019-awards-and-adjudication/
  31. http://www.nzwebfest.co.nz/nubivagant/
  32. http://www.nzwebfest.co.nz/nzwf19-finalists/
  33. https://rockandice.com/videos/climbing/free-ascent-of-nubivagant-360-vr/
  34. https://www.veniceica.org/fineartsfilmfestival
  35. https://newmediafilmfestival.com/schedule.php
  36. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5u_CzOgHfH/
  37. https://roammedia.com/awards/
  38. https://boulderenoff2020.eventive.org/films/5ef3fefc42f980005c694e08
  39. https://iho.asu.edu/iho-research-council-and-executive-board
  40. http://www.turkanabasin.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/TBI-eBook.pdf
  41. https://culturalsanctuaries.org/who-we-are/chris-rainier
  42. http://www.witi.com/halloffame/
  43. https://www.hipaaspace.com/medical_billing/coding/national_provider_identifier/codes/npi_1154795946.aspx
  44. https://research.fb.com/people/daulton-sam/
  45. http://wanderingintheclouds.com/about
  46. Tyler Rohr, "Fluid Machine: Life, Death, and Transformation on Sao Tome's Pico Cao Grande," Rock and Ice, No. 267 (January 2021), pgs. 42-49.
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