Exhibition On View November 6, 2010 - June 5, 2011
Members-Only Preview November 5, 2010
 This landmark exhibition unveils prime examples of Japanese print treasures drawn from the Museum’s rarely seen collection. Spanning the history of Ukiyo-e and beyond from the 17th- to 20th- century, the exhibition will include important works by Japan’s most celebrated print artists, including Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige. The prints depict images of destinations and celebrities that evoke moments of pleasure and respite from everyday toils.
A unique collaboration between the Museum and the University of San Diego will allow these masterworks to be on display in unprecedented scope at both institutions concurrently.
Above image: Detail: Utagawa Hiroshige. “A Cool Summer Evening at Ryōgoku” (Ryōgoku yusuzumi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tōto meisho). Woodblock print, ca. 1847–50. Museum acquisition, 1985:26. Read more.
The Smart Set
Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt
On view now through January 30, 2011  Between 1936 and 1972, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photographs of celebrities and current events appeared thousands of times in LIFE, and on 90 of the magazine’s covers. This installation, drawn from the Museum’s substantial collection of original LIFE magazine prints, highlights one particular aspect of Eisenstaedt’s art: his special acuity as a social observer chronicling an upwardly mobile class of Americans. From graduates at West Point, to a hero of the college gridiron, to the grandes dames of the Kentucky Derby, this selection of Eisenstaedt’s exemplary photojournalism presents the “smart set” of his day. Above image: Alfred Eisenstaedt. Two women dressed for a garden party, 1934. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Ken and Jacki Widder, 2007:213. Read more.
Velá zquez in the Basement
Sunday, November 7, 2:00 p.m.
James S. Copley Auditorium
$7 members, students, military, seniors
$12 nonmembers
Based on the research of John Marciari, the Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the Museum, a seventeenth-century Spanish painting portraying The Education of the Virgin in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery has been reattributed to Diego Velá zquez. Dr. Marciari’s article on the painting was published in the July-September issue of the Madrid-based journal Ars Magazine, but news of the discovery broke on July 1 on the front page of El Pais, the largest newspaper in Spain. Within days, the story had been picked up by virtually every newspaper in Spain, by the British newspaper The Guardian, and by newspapers throughout Latin America and the US. This lecture presents the case for the reattribution in a tale of discovery, detective work, and commentary on the art world’s reluctance to admit new works to the canon.
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