Ann Yonemura
Senior Associate Curator for Japanese Art

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Office of Research and Curatorial Affairs
1050 Independence Avenue, SW
Sackler 2053 MRC 707, P.O. Box 37102
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
yoneman@si.edu

Education

B.A. (1969) Wellesley College; M.A. (1973) Princeton University

Research Interests

Japanese art history and aesthetics, encompassing painting, calligraphy, lacquer, prints and graphic arts, and their interrelationships

Current Research Projects

Japanese art of the Rimpa school, Buddhist and narrative painting. Japanese ukiyo-e and modern prints. History of Japanese calligraphy.

Current or Projected Exhibits

Hokusai (2006--Sackler). Freer--a Taste for Japanese Art (2006--Freer). Facing East: Portraits from Asia (2006--Sackler, with other Freer/Sackler curators).

Current Publications

"Transcending Decoration: the Significance of Maki-e in the Arts of Japan," in Miyeko Murase and Judith G. Smith, ed., The Arts of Japan: an International Symposium (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), pp. 110-131.

"Decoration and Representation in Japanese Lacquer," Oriental Art vol. XLV no. 3 (1999), pp. 16-22.

Entries on Heike kindachi soshi, Landscape by Soen, lacquer box for tanzaku, Tale of Shuten Doji by Kano Shoun et.al., Prints of Yokohama and Meiji Japan, Box with sagittaria design by Akatsuka Jitoku (1871-1936), in Thomas Lawton and Thomas W. Lentz, Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1988).

"Imperial Gift: an Artistic Legacy," introduction to Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art form the Imperial Collections (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1997), pp. 25-31.

"Beyond the Brush: Japanese Prints, Paper Works, and Photographs," Oriental Art vol. XLII no. 3 (October 1997), pp. 31-41.

"The Art of Calligraphy and the Wakan roei shu ," chapter 5 in Jonathan Chaves and Thomas Rimer, tr., Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing: the Wakan roei shu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 260-270 and figs. 5.1-5.11.

"Japanese Lacquer," The Dictionary of Art (London: Macmillan, 1996), vol. 17, pp. 297-305.

"Conservation and Mounting of Japanese Painting," Asian Art & Culture , winter 1996, pp. 53-67.