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Beginning May 27, we will be closed as part of Oberlin College’s Sustainable Infrastructure Program.
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Learn MoreAugust 19 - July 12, 2015
In East and South Ambulatory
August 19 - July 12, 2015
In East and South Ambulatory
Why was Asian art so attractive to American collectors in the first half of the 20th century? The galleries highlight a number of prominent donors to the amam collection, including Charles Lang Freer, whose better-known gift to the Smithsonian Institution provided impetus for the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and Mary A. Ainsworth, an Oberlin alumna who quietly amassed one of the most important American collections of Japanese woodblock prints of her era. These installations offer a preview of a spring exhibition that will focus solely on the Ainsworth bequest of more than 1,500 Japanese prints.
Curated by Kevin R.E. Greenwood, Joan L. Danforth Curator of Asian Art
Joan L. Danforth Curator of Asian Art
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