Exhibition designer Elie Glyn and production specialist Sean Lunsford explain the creative process behind the planning and installation of a display of framed fans by Suzuki Kiitsu, featured in the special exhibition “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection." In this talk, Elie and Sean discuss their inspiration from 'Ogi nagashi,' a Japanese tradition where women would gather at a bridge at the summer’s end and toss their fans over the side and watch them undulating in the stream. In an effort to replicate the essence of this effect, the installation team designed special techniques to install the fans at different depths on the wall. “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection”—the largest exhibition ever presented at the Harvard Art Museums—offers a window onto the supremely rich visual culture of Japan’s early modern era. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: + Watch the installation time-lapse video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFEBi_j5Afk + Suzuki Kiitsu, “A group of fans depicting flowers of the seasons," Japanese Edo period, 1615-1868, Fan; ink, color, gold, silver on paper. Harvard Art Museums, Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, TL42096.12.1-8. https://hvrd.art/o/353681. + Suzuki Kiitsu, “Fans of the Twelve Months,” Japanese Edo period, 1844-1858, Fan; ink, color, gold, https://hvrd.art/o/340471 silver on paper. Harvard Art Museums, Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, TL42096.9. https://hvrd.art/o/340471. + Take a virtual tour of “Painting Edo” on Google Arts & Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/harvard-art-museums + Discover more about the special exhibition “Painting Edo:” https://harvardartmuseums.org/paintingedo --- SPEAKERS: + Elie Glyn, Assistant Director for Exhibitions, Collections Management; + Sean Lunsford, Exhibition Production Specialist, Collections Management; + Lynette Roth, Head, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. --- "Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection" was made possible by the Robert H. Ellsworth Bequest to the Harvard Art Museums, the Melvin R. Seiden and Janine Luke Fund for Publications and Exhibitions, the Catalogues and Exhibitions Fund for Pre-Twentieth-Century Art of the Fogg Museum, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Thierry Porté Director’s Discretionary Fund for Japanese Art, and the Japan Foundation. The accompanying print catalogues were supported by the Harvard Art Museums Mellon Publication Funds, including the Henry P. McIlhenny Fund. Recorded Thursday, January 21, 2021. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Video: Elie Glyn and Sean Lunsford. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.