Symposium - "A Sense of Place: Modern Japanese Prints in Context"

Symposium - "A Sense of Place: Modern Japanese Prints in Context"
Date: April 18, 2015
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, 6th floor, University of Pennsylvania

This symposium will bring together scholars from around the country to put modern Japanese prints into the broader historical, social, and artistic contexts that shaped the work of Japanese printmakers throughout the twentieth century.  It will also include a special roundtable session with collectors and dealers specializing in modern Japanese prints. 

More details about the symposium can be found at: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/japanese_prints.html

Curators:

Julie Nelson Davis, Associate Professor, History of Art

Quintana Heathman and Jeannie Kenmotsu, doctoral candidates, History of Art

With assistance from students in two curatorial seminars

Munakata Shikō, Volcano From the series Ryuri Hanga Saku, 1955
Hand-colored woodcut
12 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches (30.8 x 26.7 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased with the George W.B. Taylor Fund, 1958

Yoshida Hiroshi, Morning at Mt. Tsurugi (Tsurugizan no asa), from the series Twelve Prints of the Japan Alps (Nihon Arupusu jūnidai no ichi), 1926
Color woodcut
15 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches (39.7 x 27.3 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection, 1967