Joan B. Mirviss is an expert and dealer in Japanese art,
specializing in prints, paintings and contemporary ceramics. She
received her M.A. degree in Japanese art history from Columbia
University. She has lectured widely at museums and universities in
the United States and Japan, and has contributed scholarly articles
to numerous Asian art publications. She has also curated or
assisted in the preparation of both international and US
exhibitions of Japanese prints. In 2000 she curated an exhibition
and authored the accompanying catalogue entitled Jewels of Japanese
Printmaking: Surimono of the Bunka and Bunsei Era for the Ōta
Memorial Museum of Art, Tokyo. In 1995 she curated the exhibition
of the Frank Lloyd Wright surimono collection at the Phoenix Art
Museum, and co-authored the accompanying catalogue The Frank Lloyd
Wright Collection of Surimono (with John Carpenter). She is
currently serving as a consultant to the Freer Gallery of Art and
the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with respect to the Robert O. Muller
Collection.
Amy Reigle Newland has worked as a specialist editor and writer on
Japanese woodblock prints for some fifteen years, with a particular
interest in works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. In either and editorial and/or authorial role, her
publications include Japanese Erotic Fantasies: Sexual Imagery of
the Edo Period (2005), Printed to Perfection: Twentieth-century
Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection (2004), A
Courtesan’s Day: Hour by Hour (2004), The Commercial and Cultural
Climate of Japanese Printmaking (2004), Kawase Hasui: The Complete
Woodblock Prints (2003), Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural
World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 (2001), Time Present and Time Past:
Images of a Forgotten Master – Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 (1999),
Heroes & Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1797-1861
(1998), and The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from
the Robert O. Muller Collection (1993). The Hotei Encyclopedia of
Japanese Woodblock Prints (2005) is her most ambitious project to
date, one which was coordinated from her home in rural New Zealand
where she lives with her husband, son and flock of sheep.
"Displayed in a large-size, high-quality trade paper volume are over 100 prints from the collection of the noted collector Robert O. Muller (d. 2003) which have been bequeathed to the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Besides the artist, name, and date for each print, there are informative annotations on the career of the artist and the subject and style of the print. Most of the prints are in the 20th-century Japanese style of "shin-hanga binga," whose artists were "struggling to acknowledge tradition and at the same time transcend it." Introductory essays cover Muller as an influential collector and place the prints in the context of Japanese artistic traditions. The varied aspects of the text, including a "Glossary," provide a historical overview of Japanese prints as well as a representative catalog of prints from the Muller collection of more than four thousand."--Midwest Book Review
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