Recent Acquisitions of Japanese Art
January 7, 2015 - March 22, 2015
![Woman looking at her face in hand mirror](https://ackland.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1075/2015/01/2014.4colorchart-resized-for-web-1.jpg)
In this focused installation, the Ackland presents half a dozen varied works of Japanese art, selected from the more than 115 acquired over the past eighteen months. Ranging from a thirteenth-century ritual bell to a late 1960s Op-art poster, the display also includes a delicately painted export vase from around 1720, an early nineteenth-century scroll painting, several dynamically composed color woodblock triptychs from around 1900, and a modernistic portfolio of decorative and ornamental prints from the 1930s.
Totoya Hokkei, Japanese, 1780-1850: Courtesan Viewing Herself in a Mirror (detail), c. 1800; hanging scroll: ink and colors on silk. The William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund.