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Gallery Talk: Painting by Numbers? Chinese Painting Manuals in Japan

Nakabayashi Chikutō, Landscape, Japanese, Edo period, 1843. Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, TL42096.3.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Graduate student Leah Justin-Jinich will examine how printed Chinese painting manuals took on a second life in painting in 18th- and 19th-century Japan. 

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Offered by:
Leah Justin-Jinich, Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; and graduate student intern, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums

Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.