Global Speed Lecture Series 2023
Theme: Japan
Date: October 5, 6:30 – 7:30 PM

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Speaker: Janice Katz
Topic: Ukiyo-e and the Windy City:  Japanese Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago

The early and intense commitment of Chicagoan Clarence Buckingham (1854-1913) to the Art Institute formed the museum’s well known Japanese print collection.  From the 1890’s, Buckingham, assisted by advisors such as curator Frederick W. Gookin and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, assembled a collection of prints of exceptional range and quality.  Today more than ever, there is a responsibility to display and care for this collection as well as describe its history and formation for a global audience.

Speaker bio:

Janice Katz is the Roger L. Weston Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.  She has been with the museum for over 20 years where she curates quarterly exhibitions of Japanese prints.  She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. Her research focuses on paintings from the Edo period (1615-1868) and the history of art collecting in Japan. Her publications include Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2003), and Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum (2009), an exhibition which traveled from Chicago to St. Louis and San Francisco. Her most recent major exhibition at the Art Institute, Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection, and its accompanying catalogue, focused on ukiyo-e paintings of the 17^th through 20^th centuries.