Description:
As one of the world’s premier research institutions for the study of Asian art, the Freer Gallery of Art demonstrates its commitment to its mission through the research activities it sponsors for its own staff and facilitates for other scholars. This volume is a relaunch of the Occasional Papers series in its third incarnation. The new series publishes for a specialist constituency research on Asian art from a variety of perspectives, although its purview is no longer confined to the museum’s collections. As in the original series, future titles of the Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers will range widely in subject; they will include monographs, conference proceedings, multiauthor treatments of material or theme, and studies in conservation and scientific research. The first of the series is entitled Studies Using Scientific Methods: Pigments in Later Japanese Paintings. This volume explores the pigments found on five hundred Japanese ukiyo-e paintings on silk and paper supports in the Freer Gallery of Art, and the identification of indigo and Prussian blue in Japanese Edo-period paintings.
