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In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, we walk through two starkly contrasting Japanese folding screens celebrating the time-honored, iconic subjects of dragons and tigers with exceptional energy and dynamism.

Features Works of Art:

Kishi Ganku (1749-1838)

Dragon and Tiger, 1835

Pair of six panel screens; ink and gold on paper

Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.314a-b

Morita Shiryu (1912-1998)

Dragon (Ryu), 1965

Four-panel screen; aluminum-flake pigment in polyvinyl acetate medium, and yellow alkyd varnish, on paper

Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.873

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