Among many things, the exhibition Solace in Painting at The Gallery at UTA offers a pretext to think further about the remarkable diversity and complexity of the ever-evolving idea of “Asian American Art”. It does so by placing this idea in further robust engagement with artistic traditions in “Asia.” Inspired by this endeavor, this presentation by the visiting scholar Yulio Lippit at the Department of Art and Art History further considers the work of Asian American artists in relation to long-standing painting traditions in East Asia through the figure of Kakunen Tsuruoka (1892-1977), a Japanese American painter and antiquities dealer.

Dr. Yukio Lippit is Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Lippit’s research and teaching interests center around Japanese painting of the medieval and early modern eras, as well as the history of Japanese architecture. His numerous books and articles have been widely recognized, and he is the recipient of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association.