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The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has been praised internationally for its Korean holdings. The growing collection includes traditional costumes and accessories, ceramics, paintings, and bronzes.
Now on View in the Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery:
True Views: Traditions of Korean Painting
This exhibition consists of hanging scrolls and folding screens illustrating the richness and diversity of Korean painting, ranging from the subtle ink monochrome tradition favored by the scholarly elite, to the bold and colorful imagery associated with folk art and the imperial court.
This exhibition is made possible by a grant from the Korea Foundation.
Elizabeth Keith in Korea
From the Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art, a series of woodblock prints by Scottish artist Elizabeth Keith are on display in the Huh Gallery. Keith lived in Asia for many years, recording scenes of everyday life first in paintings and later by using traditional woodblock printing; she was also one of the first Westerners to depict the topography, costumes and social customs of Korea. The colorful scene of a traditional marriage ceremony depicted in "Country Wedding Feast" exemplifies Keith's close observations of the rituals of daily life. In 1937, The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (then the UO Museum of Art) became the first university art museum to exhibit Keith's work, and in 1974 it mounted the first retrospective subsequent to her death in 1956.
Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956), Country Wedding Feast, 1921, Color woodblock print,Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art