Description
Closely examine a few Japanese masterpieces of hammered metalwork during a twenty-minute tour led by our docents. Learn how metalwork artists skillfully combine tradition with creativity and innovation, and get a taste of the largest collection of contemporary Japanese metalworks in the United States.
Please meet at gallery 22 for this tour. Learn more about Striking Objects.
Image: Vessel, titled Wave Crests (Namiho), Ōsumi Yukie (b. 1945), Japan, Heisei era, 2008, hammered silver with nunomezõgan (textile imprint inlay) in lead and gold, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Shirley Z. Johnson, S2022.8.32a–d
