Gallery Events
Lecture - November 18, 2009, 5 p.m.
Dr. Julie Nelson Davis, Associate Professor of East Asian Art at the University of Pennsylvania will present the lecture "Making Pictures for the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Artists and Publishers," on Wednesday, November 18 at 5 p.m. in the Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery. Davis has written widely in the field of Ukiyo-e art and is the author of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty, a study of the Ukiyo-e artist Utamaro and his images, as seen in the larger context of gender and identity in the city of Edo, Japan (modern-day Tokyo). She has also co-curated the exhibition, Dramatic Impressions: Japanese Theatre Prints from the Gilbert Luber Collection and is co-author of the accompanying catalogue. She has lectured at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and elsewhere. Her talk is free and open to the public.
Photos from opening reception of The Actor's Image: The Japan-Virginia Society of Ukiyo-e Prints - October 23, 2009
