APR 2000

VOLUME 31- NUMBER 4

This issue coincides with 'Japanese Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection', an exhibition of some 200 works from the most comprehensive private holding of Japanese art in the West, which takes place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 30 March to 25 June. Masako Watanabe examines a painting of the Second Rakan, recently acquired by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, as well as other extant works in the style of the Chinese painter Guanxiu. Hideo Yamamoto investigates the attribution and dating of a pair of six-panel bird-and-flower screens in the Metropolitan museum, and suggests that they could be an important part of the oeuvre of a well-known master of the Momoyama period. Taking examples from the Burke collection and the Metropolitan, Andrew Maske traces the progression of ceramic techonology and taste in the seventeenth century. Masato Naito's study of paintings by Kaburaki Kiyokata demonstrates the influence that ukiyo-eof the Edo period had on the artist and his works. In her profile of Mary Griggs Burke, Valerie C. Doran outlines the evolution of her involvemnet in and appreciation of Japanese art.

Finally, with ongoing investigations of past practices at Christie's and Sotheby's, our commentary addresses the current status of the two auction houses.

FEATURES
Valerie C. Doran. Obituary: Richard Rosenblum (1940-2000)
Masato Naito. Kiyokata and Shunsho: The Influence of Edo Period Ukiyo-e on Modern Paintings of Beautiful Women
Andrew Maske. Innovations of Form and Decoration in Seventeenth Century Japanese Ceramics from the Burke Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hideo Yamamoto. On the Attribution of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Birds and Flowers Screens
Masako Watanabe. Guanxiu and Exotic Imagery in Rakan Paintings
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Susan Dewar. Beijing Auctions - October 1999
INTERVIEWS
Valerie C. Doran. Resonance and Consonance: A Profile of Mary Griggs Burke
COMMENTARY
Valerie C. Doran. Resonance and Consonance: A Profile of Mary Griggs Burke