On-Campus Gallery Tour with Catherine

Did you know GW has an excellent collection of fine art right here on campus? Explore the “floating world” of Edo Japan with UHP Program Officer Catherine Chandler at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery’s exhibition of Hiroshige’s “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido.” Utagawa Hiroshige was among the most prolific and poetic of Edo artists, before the onset of Westernization in Japan, and whose work had a profound impact of the impressionists and post-impressionists in Europe and America.
To meet demand for famous scenic views, artists such as Hiroshige would reproduce series of woodcuts for popular consumption. GW is lucky enough to have a such collection of woodcuts of famos travel destinations along the important road, the Tokaido.
Catherine earned her Bachelor’s in art history at Wheaton College, her Master’s in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and pursued further graduate work at Bryn Mawr.