Woodblock prints of Chinese gardens provide an elegant history lesson
Look at Chinese life from the 16th to 19th centuries through depictions of elegant gardens, in a new exhibition of 48 rare woodblock prints at the Huntington Library.
The exhibition includes gardens real and fictional, including the popular Lion Grove Garden in Suzhou, China. Another work, a scroll measuring more than 25 feet long (six feet of which will be displayed), shows urban gardens in 18th century Beijing.
In the education gallery, visitors can observe Chinese woodblock printing techniques courtesy of a replica of a printing table, along with carving tools, colored inks, paper, brushes and burnishers.
To better illustrate the multicolor printing process, a set of woodblocks and step-by-step prints replicating a page of the “Ten Bamboo Studio Manual” will be on view, a display commissioned from the Shanghai publisher Duo Yun Xuan especially for the exhibition
What: “Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints”
When: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, noon to 4:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Jan. 9, 2017.
Where: MaryLou and George Boone Gallery, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino.
Info: www.huntington.org; (626) 405-2100.
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