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Conserving Japanese Folding Screens: Views of Kyoto

Lunchtime Lecture

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  • Lecture
Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 12:00 p.m.
Location:  Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Gartner Auditorium

Views of Kyoto, 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Six-fold screen; ink and color on gold paper; 110.3 x 307.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry, 1997.119

About The Event

Free; ticket required

Come to the CMA for a quick bite of art history. Every first Tuesday of each month, join curators, conservators, scholars, and other museum staff for 30-minute talks on objects currently on display in the museum galleries. 

Join CMA conservator Sara Ribbans as she discusses the structure of Japanese folding screens in relation to the ongoing treatment of a 17th-century example. Ribbans will share details of how folding screens are produced, clues to the history of when the screen was last remounted, and the challenges of treating and remounting folding screen paintings. 

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