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Art
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
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Overrobe with Bamboo
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Dec 17, 2009 – June 6, 2010
Daily
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works of Japanese art from collector Harry G. C. Packard (1914-1991). This daring acquisition instantly transformed the Museum into an institution with one of the finest Japanese art collections in the West, comprised of works of art from the Neolithic period through the 19th century. Come join the Met as it celebrates the 35th anniversary of the acquisition with the installation Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection, on view through June 6. Featuring more than 220 works, the exhibition showcases the collection’s particular strengths in archaeological artifacts, Buddhist iconographic scrolls, ceramics, screen paintings of the Momoyama and Edo periods (16th-19th centuries), and sculptures of the Heian and Kamakura periods (9th-14th centuries).
Image: Gion Nankai, Japanese, 1677–1751. Overrobe (Uchikake) with Bamboo. Japan. Edo period (1615–1868), first half of the 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975em>
