The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Swallow and Wisteria

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Program Information

Ink Painting and the Rinpa Tradition

Program information

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Swallow and Wisteria

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo))

Period:: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:: mid-1840s
Culture:: Japan
Medium:: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions:: 8 27/32 x 6 3/5 in. (22.5 x 16.8 cm)
Classification:: Prints
Credit Line:: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918
Accession Number:: JP254

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