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Portland Art Museum, 1964. Single sheet, 38 x 94 cm, printed on both sides and folded to 19 x 12 cm; illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of 19 screens, title panel with drawing of the museum building; printed price "Fifty cents." Text by Robert Peirce, Museum Librarian.
In Very Good condition. Cream paper printed in black. Mild shelf and edge wear; light toning, heavier on outer panels; very light soiling along fold creases. No tears or holes. Otherwise unmarked. Visitor's guide to a month-long loan exhibition of Japanese folding screens, arranged as a tour of the galleries from the Sculpture Court entrance. Each screen is reproduced with a caption giving title, artist or school, period and lender, followed by commentary on technique, subject and symbolism, with background on gold-leaf construction, the Kano and Tosa schools, and the uses of screens in Japanese interiors. Lenders include the Seattle Art Museum (Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), Honolulu Academy of Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Fenollosa-Weld Collection), M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (Avery Brundage Collection) and the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, alongside screens from Portland's own collection. Works include One Hundred Black Crows, a namban byobu of the arrival of the Westerners in Japan, a two-panel landscape by Ogata Korin, Tiger and Bamboo by Kano Ko-i and Lions by Susetsu. Also notes prints from the museum's Mary Andrews Ladd Collection hung near the screens. Lists the trustees of the Portland Art Association and the exhibition staff, including director Francis J. Newton, curator Rachael Griffin and graphic designer Douglas Lynch.