International speakers discuss the vibrancy and history of the Japanese landscape through prints, including the legacy of Kawase Hasui.
Speakers include:
- Dr. Ken Brown, Professor of Asian Art History at California State University, Long Beach and Guest Curator of Water & Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints and author of studies of Hasui, the Shin-hanga movement and Japanese Art Deco
- Dr. Christine Guth, Senior Tutor History of Design, Royal College of Art, London
- Dr. Noriko Kuwahara, Associate Professor at Seitoku University, Chiba, Japan
Image: Kami(no) Bridge, Fukagawa, from the series “Twelve Subjects of Tokyo,” summer 1920, Kawase Hasui, woodblock print, ink and color on paper. Rene and Carolyn Balcer Collection
Sponsored by
- Carolyn Hsu-Balcer and René Balcer
- E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
- Christie’s
- The Japan Foundation
- John and Julia Curtis
- Charles and Ann Reed