USC Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, California 91101
Open Wednesday through Sunday 10am to 6pm


EXHIBITION
Recent
Acquisitions of
Japanese Paintings
February 15 - April 11, 2004
Two-panel Japanese Kano-school screen painting
The year 2004 will be an exciting year for Japanese
art lovers. Accompanying the re-installation of the Japanese art
gallery (Gallery 9), we will open an exhibition highlighting recent
acquisitions of Japanese secular and religious paintings from the
collections of Dr. Jesse L. Greenstein, Dr. George W. Housner, Colonel
William Johnston, Patricia Ayers Gallucci, and Gail Melhado.
Most of the scroll paintings and screens in the exhibition date
to the Edo period (1600-1868 AD) and depict a wide range of subjects,
including ukiyo-e (“floating world images”) of beautiful
women, legendary characters and natural scenes. The exhibition will
also feature Buddhist devotional images, such as a rare painting
of the bodhisattva Kujaku Bosatsu, dating to the early Edo period.
One of the highlights of the exhibition will be a two-panel Japanese
Kano-school screen painting of cranes on gold leaf, early Edo Genroku
period, c. 1700. The screen was given to the Museum in October 2003
by Gail Melhado.
This event is co-sponsored by the Chinese LA Daily News, and is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Awards ceremony is by invitation only.