NYAB Event - "Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection" Exhibition

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At The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Media: Painting, Prints, Sculpture

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In 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired more than four hundred works of Japanese art from collector Harry G. C. Packard (1914-1991), by gift and purchase. The acquisition instantly transformed the Museum into an institution boasting one of the finest collections of its kind in the West, with encyclopedic holdings from the Neolithic period through the nineteenth century. This exhibition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the acquisition of the Packard Collection, showcasing its particular strengths in archaeological artifacts, Buddhist iconographic scrolls, ceramics, screen paintings of the Momoyama and Edo periods (sixteenth through nineteenth centuries), and sculptures of the Heian and Kamakura periods (ninth through fourteenth centuries).

[Image: Kano Sansetsu "Detail from The Old Plum" (ca. 1645) four sliding door panels (fusuma); ink, color, and gold on gilded paper 68 3/4 in. x 15 ft. 11 1/8 in.]

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