Mar 19 2020
[CANCELED] The Feinberg Collection: Six Works

[CANCELED] The Feinberg Collection: Six Works

Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums

The Edo period (1615–1868) was a time of critical change in the history of Japan; the country settled into an era of peace under the warrior government of the shoguns and opened its doors to greater engagement with the outside world. The dizzying array of artistic lineages and studios active during this early modern period fueled an immense expansion of Japanese pictorial culture that reverberated not only at home, but subsequently in the history of painting in the West. Artists creatively juxtaposed past and present, eternal and contingent, elegant and vulgar in a wide range of formats and styles, from brilliant polychrome compositions to monochromatic inkwork.

Virtually every major school and movement is represented within the remarkable Feinberg Collection, judiciously assembled by Robert and Betsy Feinberg over more than four decades. The Feinbergs, in an act of extraordinary generosity, have promised their collection to the Harvard Art Museums. This symposium examines the collection through six representative works, offering a window onto how the period—and the vibrant city for which it was named—was articulated by and for the paintings’ contemporary and more recent consumers.

Admission Info

The symposium will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Seating will begin at 12:30pm. Free admission, but seating is limited.

Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.

The symposium was made possible by Harvard University’s Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of History of Art and Architecture Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund for Art and Architecture.

Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection was made possible by the Robert H. Ellsworth Bequest to the Harvard Art Museums, the Melvin R. Seiden and Janine Luke Fund for Publications and Exhibitions, the Catalogues and Exhibitions Fund for Pre-Twentieth-Century Art of the Fogg Museum, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Thierry Porté Director’s Discretionary Fund for Japanese Art, and the Japan Foundation. The accompanying print catalogues were funded by the Harvard Art Museums Mellon Publication Funds, including the Henry P. McIlhenny Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund.

Phone: 6174959400

Email: john_connolly@harvard.edu

Dates & Times

2020/03/19 - 2020/03/19

Location Info

Harvard Art Museums

32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138