Calendar of Events: September 2010
Current Exhibitions
Tierra, Libertad y no Re-Eleccion! Photography from the Mexican RevolutionThrough Sunday, February 13th, 2011
Season Four of Seasons of Beauty: Yoshitoshi's Thirty-two Aspects of Daily LifeThrough Sunday, October 31st, 2010
Curator's Choice Gallery Talk: Jomon and Haniwa: Two Early Periods of Japanese Art
Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm
John Johnston, Coates-Cowden-Brown Curator of Asian Art. Meet at the Front Desk. Free.
John Johnston will speak about the two oldest Japanese objects in the museum's collection, a Jomon period Earthenware Vessel (circa 3,000-2,000 BC) and the recently acquired Haniwa Figure of a Man (circa 300-600 AD).
Join SAMA curators on the first Tuesday of each month for insightful 25 minute talks about works of art on display.
Image:
Jar
Japan, Jomon Period, (3000-2000 BC)
earthenware, 24 x 18 in.
Purchased with funds provided by the
Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Challenge Fund.
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Photography by Peggy Tenison