Asian Art

Polk Museum of Art owns collections of Korean Silla period ceramic and metal objects that date from AD 300-900; 19th and 20th Century Chinese and Japanese ceramics, ivories, and textiles; Chinese and Japanese scrolls; Japanese woodblock prints; and Indian decorative arts. Of particular significance in the Asian Art collection are a portfolio of rare 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi depicting the Thirty-two Aspects of Women and a group of 48 ceramic objects by noted 20th-century Japanese artists, which were donated by Reverend Muneharu Kurozumi, Chief Patriarch of Kurozumi-kyo Shintoism. In 2006, William D. and Norma Canelas Roth donated a large collection of Japanese textiles to expand our holdings in that area.