Parchment featuring Japanese calligraphy
Image Credit

Murase Myōdō 村瀬明道, Breaking Waves in the Pines (Shōtō), late 1900s. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.155. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Her Brush

Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection
13 de noviembre de 2022 – 16 de julio de 2023

Murase Myōdō 村瀬明道, Breaking Waves in the Pines (Shōtō), late 1900s. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.155. Photo © Denver Art Museum

El Denver Art Museum (DAM) presenta Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection Su pincel: Mujeres artistas japonesas de la colección Fong-Johnstone Collection. La exposición aborda, de manera sutil, cuestiones de la voz artística, el género y la agencia como persona a través de más de 100 obras de pintura, caligrafía y cerámica del Japón de los siglos XVII al XX.

Muchas de estas obras de arte se expondrán por primera vez al público. Her Brush, que podrá visitarse desde el 13 de noviembre de 2022 al 13 de mayo de 2023 en la Sala Bonfils-Stanton, ubicada en el nivel 1 del Edificio Martin del DAM, está incluida en la entrada general. Trazando los caminos que las mujeres artistas debieron abrirse en pos de su práctica artística, Her Brush explora el impulso humano universal hacia la expresión artística como forma de autorrealización, mientras se sorteaban barreras culturales en épocas marcadas por estrictos roles de género y normas sociales. Estas restricciones sociales e históricas funcionaron como obstáculos, pero también como estímulo para las mujeres que querían dedicarse al arte en el Japón de la época.

Her Brush presenta obras de artistas renombradas como Kiyohara Yukinobu 清原雪信 (1643–1682), Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月 (1791–1875) y Okuhara Seiko 奥原晴湖 (1837–1913), así como de artistas relativamente desconocidas, pero igualmente extraordinarias, como Ōishi Junkyō 大石順教 (1888–1968), Yamamoto Shōtō 山本緗桃 (1757–1831) y Katō Seikō 加藤青湖 (fl. siglo XIX).

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Hanging scroll featuring a ink and color drawing of a Japanese woman

Kiyohara (Kanō) Yukinobu 清原雪信, The Goddess Benzaiten and Her Lute (biwa), 1660–1680s. Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.150. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Ink on paper scroll drawing of a Japenese figure

Ono no Ozū (or Ono no Otsū) 小野お通, The Deified Sugawara Michizane Crossing to China (Totō Tenjin), early 1600s. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.152. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Ink on paper calligraphy encased in a table screen with a wooden frame

Murase Myōdō 村瀬明道, Mu (emptiness) and Kan (quietude), late 1900s. Table screen; ink on paper with wood frame. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.154A-C. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Hanging scroll featuring Japanese written symbols

Murase Myōdō 村瀬明道, Breaking Waves in the Pines (Shōtō), late 1900s. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.155. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Hanging scroll depiciting an ink drawing of a bamboo tree and its branches

Nakabayashi Seishuku 中林清淑, Blossoming Plum and Bamboo, 1893. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.194. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Hanging scroll of ink drawings of turtles

Various artists, Turtles on New Year’s Morn, about 1894. Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.202. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Hanging scroll depicting a lonely man sitting on the ground

Tagami Kikusha 田上菊舎, Hermit/Self-Portrait, early 1800s. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.222. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Hanging scroll with a small calligraphy drawing of a stag at the bottom

Calligraphy by Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月 and Painting by Wada Gesshin 和田月心, Stag and Poem, 1865–70. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.245. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Wood cabinet doors featuring an ink and color painting of flowers

Okuhara Seiko 奥原晴湖, Flowering Plants of the Four Seasons, 1898. Painting on cabinet doors; ink and color on paper mounted on wooden panels. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.247A-B. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Stoneware sculpture with a hole carved out in the middle

Ōtagaki Rengetsu, 太田垣蓮月, Hanging Flower Vase in Shape of Hechima Gourd (hana ike), 1791–1875. Stoneware. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone for the Denver Art Museum, 2021.184. Photo © Denver Art Museum

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Wood cabinet doors featuring an ink and color painting of flowers

Okuhara Seiko 奥原晴湖, Flowering Plants of the Four Seasons, 1898. Painting on cabinet doors; ink and color on paper mounted on wooden panels. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.247A-B. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Online Exhibition Guide

An online guide is available for select exhibitions, allowing visitors to take a closer look at the artworks and corresponding wall text. Look for a QR code inside the exhibition to load the guide onto your phone or browse online ahead of your visit.

Ink on paper calligraphy encased in a table screen with a wooden frame

Murase Myōdō 村瀬明道, Mu (emptiness) and Kan (quietude), late 1900s. Table screen; ink on paper with wood frame. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone, 2018.154A-C. Photo © Denver Art Museum

Publications

Browse through an online companion catalog to the exhibition, with a foreword by Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer Director, Denver Art Museum, and essays by Dr. John Fong, curator Einor Cervone, and more artists and scholars.

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Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection está organizada por el Denver Art Museum y es posible gracias a la generosa donación de la Colección John Fong y Colin Johnstone. Recibe el apoyo de las fundaciones E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation,y la Blakemore Foundation, los donantes de la campaña benéfica Annual Fund Leadership Campaign y de los residentes que brindan su apoyo al Distrito de Organizaciones Científicas y Culturales (SCFD, por sus siglas en inglés). Apoyo promocional proporcionado por 5280 Magazine y CBS4.