Art and Music in the Library
Art and Music in the Library
A Journey from Earthenware to Porcelain
Early 20th Century Japanese Ceramics from the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
The exhibition features 35 ceramic objects from the early 20th century including works by the world famous Japanese potter, Kitaoji Rosanjin, and nine designated Living National Treasures recipients. The works are from the collection of Japanese ceramics given to Mills College in the 1970s by William S. Picher, a prominent San Francisco patron of the arts, and Dr. Herbert Sanders, a Bay Area teacher, writer, and collector.
The exhibition looks at Japan's ceramic journey from earthenware to porcelain, demonstrating the technical brilliance, refined aesthetics, and feeling for nature that lies at the heart of Japanese ceramics.
Presented by the Chancellor's Committee on Art, Honors, and Recognition.
Main floor, Library hours.
See the exhibit brochure (PDF).
Pharmacy and Pharmacists: Japanese Prints in the First Floor Gallery
Exhibits in the Parnassus Campus Library's first floor gallery present a rotating selection of Japanese woodblock prints and scrolls from UCSF's East Asian Collection.
Pharmacy and Pharmacists, the exhibit currently on view, portrays traditional drug compounding and distribution establishments. Advertisements for the drug stores carefully depict pre-modern shops which were open to the street and had signs promoting proprietary medicine and store specialties.
In many prints, a physician can be seen consulting with pharmacists. Around the store, assistants and apprentices prepare herbal drugs, dispense drugs to customers, and deliver new shipments of herbs.
The street scenes depict people from different walks of life, where drugstores serve as a backdrop for everyday activities. Two prints show views of Mt. Fuji.
Please enjoy these treasures from our East Asian Collection. View the entire collection of Japanese woodblock prints.
Permanent Exhibits
Second Floor
- Azuma nishiki e Yamato fūzoku: Shokō gata otanjō shiki / Japanese costumes in Eastern brocade: Birth ceremony of receiving visits from other families
Kobayashi, Ikuhide, fl. 1868-1887 1889 - Uo-zukushi: Koi / A Shoal of Fishes: Carp
Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 1832 - Uo-zukushi: Ayu / A Shoal of Fishes: Sweetfish (trout)
Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 1832 - Kinrai ryūkō kabuki uwasa Kenbutsu no hara / Internal bodily functions dramatized by popular kabuki actors
Unknown artist, Late 19th century - Senaka ni hara kodomo asobi / Back and abdomen, children's games
Unknown artist, Late 19th century - Gotai wagō shinsai no kyō-kun / Teaching on harmonious body and mind
Utagawa, Yoshikatsu, fl. 1844-1859 1850
Third/Main Floor
- Georges Mathieu, Arrivee De Bohemod, 1957
- Helaman Ferguson, Umbilic Torus NC, 1988
- Fred Reichman, Little Summer Music with Book and Chair, 1990
- R.C. Gorman, Natoma, 1985
- Portrait of Julius R. Krevans, M.D.
- Bill Woodrow, Regardless of History, 2000
- Robert Cremean, Bust of R. de la V., 1964
- Sarah Sze, The Distance Where Magnets Pull, 2011
Fourth Floor
- Fred Reichman, Summer at Fallen Leaf: Jay and Storm Blasted, 1973
- Fred Reichman, Sun Coming Through, 1989
- Fred Reichman, Summer Studio at Inverness II, 1988-90
- Fred Reichman, On the Rhone By Avignon, 1966
- Nathan Oliveira, Figure 3, 1982
- Bust of Dr. Howard C. Naffziger