Lecture: Hokusai: A Curatorial Perspective
In 2021, several superb exhibitions focused on the master artist Hokusai. A wonderful show at the National Museum of Asian Art, on view until January 9 2022, highlights the collection of Hokusai drawings, paintings and screens collected by its founder, Charles Lang Freer. Across the Atlantic, the British Museum features a much-anticipated exhibition of drawings by Hokusai until January 30, 2022. Other museum curators have turned their attention to new publications.
For our annual holiday program on December 1, 2021, we had the opportunity to hear four expert curators and specialists speak about their perspective on connoisseurship of Hokusai drawings, prints and paintings:
- Frank Feltens, “Visualizing Thunder: Hokusai’s Thunder God”
- Alfred Haft, “Hokusai’s Illustrations for The Great Picture Book of Everything”
- Andreas Marks, “To Wave or not to Wave: Variations in Hokusai’s Fuji Prints”
- Sarah Thompson, “Drawings by Hokusai and His Pupils at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
The recorded event can be viewed above.