Art Collection

    Presently housed at the Clark Center are
  • slightly over five hundred hanging scrolls,
  • nearly forty screens,
  • eleven works of sculpture,
  • almost two hundred fifty wood-block prints,
  • well over one hundred ceramics,
  • more than one hundred bamboo baskets,
  • over one hundred kimono,
  • and a number of pieces of decorative art primarily from the Meiji period (1868–1912).

Amongst the collection’s most important pieces are exquisite Buddhist sculptures and paintings from the Kamakura period (1185–1333), an extremely wide range of paintings from the Edo period (1615–1868), and a selection of folding screens of the finest quality as well as one of the most extraordinary collections of contemporary Japanese ceramics and bamboo works in the US.

For a selection from our art collection please go to: Catalog.

For a selection of works by the ceramic artist Fukami Sueharu (b.1947) click here.