Painting Edo
A slender young trans woman with long dark brown curly hair and bright red fingernails appears frontally in three-quarter length. She is outside, leaning against a partially painted brick wall, her head turned to the right. She is wearing a thin fur jacket with a wide collar, a low-cut black top, and tight black pants.

We’re bringing Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection to you! Join us this spring for a series of virtual programs and events highlighting works and themes of the exhibition.

Through a partnership with the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, we’ve recently created a field guide for you to explore how artistic representations of trees and flowers featured in the exhibition compare to the living collections of the Arnold Arboretum.

Check out the many other online offerings related to Painting Edo on our website.
A close-up of a screen depitcs a butterfly with its wings spread flying downwards.

Discover haiku this spring and become a published poet! Inspired by the Arnold Arboretum and Painting Edo, check out these instructions and writing prompts. 
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On Tuesday, May 25, plunge into an intricate web of tangled ink lines and emerge in a moonlit pond, as Yurika Wakamatsu examines Lotus in Autumn by Okuhara Seiko.
A painted screen depicts maple leaves and the words Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art.

CATALOGUE

Page Turner

The Feinberg Collection’s stunning array of artwork—hanging scrolls, folding screens, handscrolls, albums, and fan paintings from the Edo period—is captured beautifully in a new catalogue. 
A photo montage shows a white Magnolia sieboldii flower with white petals and a deep red pistil. The top photograph also shows green leaves in the background and a blue, cloudy sky.

SPECIAL EVENT

Planting Edo

Our recently created field guide will send you outdoors to enjoy the warmth of spring. See how key plants depicted in Painting Edo pair with their living counterparts at the Arnold Arboretum.
A gallery entrance features a large display case of two hanging scrolls, containing imagery of flowers and branches with leaves, flanked by large folding screens.
A man with glasses faces the camera and indicates a Japanese polychromatic screen depicting a warrior on horseback

In January, exhibition designer Elie Glyn and production specialist Sean Lunsford gave us a peek behind the scenes at the creative process involved in the unique display of Japanese fans in Painting Edo. Revisit this talk on our website.
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SOCIAL MEDIA

Contest Alert

Are you following us on social media? Find out how you can win a Painting Edo catalogue by following us on Instagram!
A painted screen depicts a scene where a warrior with a raised sword sits atop a galloping hhorse.

Immerse yourself in the Painting Edo exhibition through this multipart tour, hosted on Google Arts & Culture.

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Online Events

Image (header): Left: Suzuki Kiitsu, Magnolia, Japanese, Edo period, early to mid-19th century. Fan; ink, color, gold, and silver on paper. Harvard Art Museums, Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, TL42096.12.4. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Right: Magnolia sieboldii 404-97*C at the Arnold Arboretum. Photos: William (Ned) Friedman; © 2016 President and Fellows of Harvard College.






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