Pioneering Pursuits: The Rediscovery of 18th-Century Suzhou Prints

The Pauline and Joseph Degenfelder Distinguished Lecture in Chinese Art

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Saturday, November 21, 2026, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Christer von der Burg
Location:  Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Free; Ticket Required
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About The Event

Building on a lifelong engagement with Chinese printing, Christer von der Burg began collecting 18th-century Suzhou prints in the 1990s and has since assembled and studied a major corpus. This lecture presents new findings from his collecting and contends that Suzhou prints are a crucial, yet long-neglected, chapter in the global history of print and visual culture. The lecture accompanies the CMA’s exhibition Print Revolutions: Chinese Impressions, 1630s to 1960s and celebrates the museum’s recent acquisition of over 100 prints from the Christer von der Burg collection.

Sponsors

All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen, and Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Mrs. Martine Kowal, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Medical Mutual of Ohio, the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund, the Reinberger Foundation, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Susan LaPine, Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Suzanne Cushwa Rusnak and Jeff Rusnak, Ellen and Lowell Satre, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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