A Gallery Tour and the Art of Appreciating and Dealing Fine Woodblock Prints
Featured speaker: Ken Caplan, Brown University Class of 1991 and Director of Mita Arts Gallery
Please join the Brown University Club of Japan as we enjoy an invitation from Ken Caplan to his Mita Arts Gallery, which has supplied the finest Japanese prints and paintings to collectors and museums worldwide since 1963.
Due to the size of the gallery, participants will be limited to 15 BUCJ members. Those who secure places will receive a personal tour of Mita Arts Gallery from Ken Caplan with the opportunity to enjoy the fine art displayed and sold there. Ken will help us to understand some of the criteria for better appreciating Japanese woodblock prints and share with us some of his stories of dealing fine art in Japan and internationally over the past 30+ years.
To secure your place at the event, please sign up using this Google Form:
https://forms.gle/dFoCNJxsSxqgvisHA
Due to the small size of the gallery, at first, only BUCJ members will be able to register. However, if you have a guest who would like to attend, kindly email Adam Komisarof at adam@komisarofa.com to get your guest on a waiting list in case we end up having space for them.
History and Description of Mita Arts Gallery:
Mita Arts Gallery was established in 1963 about a year after the founder David Caplan came to live in Japan and developed a passion for Japanese woodblock prints. David’s son Ken, returning to Japan in 1991 after graduating from Brown University, moved Mita into a gallery space in 1995 in Tokyo’s Jimbocho area and began to focus on offering the finest, high-quality prints.
Mita is a unique presence in the field of Japanese prints. Mita is the only ukiyo-e print gallery in Japan with a foreign director and a fully English-speaking staff. With over 50 years of history and experience, Mita offers the highest level of knowledge and expertise to their clients and fully guarantees the authenticity of all of our prints and paintings. Mita has been the single largest buyer at the Nihon Ukiyoe Dealers Association (of which it was one of the founding members over 40 years ago). Mita also serves as a director of the International Ukiyoe Society.