Art with an Expert: Dr. Sarah Thompson discusses Japanese woodblock prints
Event Details
WHEN/WHERE: 5 p.m. Capitol Room, Smith Building, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin, TX 78712
Learn more about the Japanese woodblock prints on view in The Floating World from Dr. Sarah Thompson, curator of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. A specialist in Japanese prints, Dr. Thompson’s talk will expand on the ingenuity and intriguing subjects of ukiyo-e.
This event is part of our Second Saturday scheduled programming.
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About Dr. Sarah Thompson
Dr. Sarah Thompson is a curator of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, one of four curators working with the largest collection of Japanese art outside Japan. With degrees in linguistics from Harvard and Japanese art from Columbia, she taught Japanese and Asian art history at Vassar College, Oberlin College, and the University of Oregon, before moving to the MFA in 2004. Her current specialty is Japanese prints; she has created an online digital catalogue of the MFA’s collection of over 50,000 Japanese prints, and has curated numerous exhibitions at the MFA and elsewhere, including a Hokusai retrospective at the MFA in 2015 and “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from May to August of this year. Her recent publications include “Hokusai’s Landscapes: The Complete Series” (MFA Publications, 2019) and “Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence” (MFA Publications, 2023).
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Feature Image Credit: Katsushika Hokusai, “The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga,” 1833–1834, color woodblock print, 10 x 14 7/8 in., Worcester Art Museum, John Chandler Bancroft Collection