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Paul Binnie Prints on View at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

For those of you who haven't been able to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in New York recently, we are very pleased to share that works from artist and collector Paul Binnie's completed series, A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo are on view until December 5th in the Japanese Galleries as part of the third rotation of the current exhibition, Japan: A History of Style. The prints are brilliantly displayed side-by-side with stunning examples of ukiyo-e masterpieces that inspired Binnie's compositions—in a way that very few museums would have the ability to do. The complete edition was acquired from Scholten Japanese Art by the Department of Asian Art at the MET thanks to the enthusiasm of John T. Carpenter (the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art) who spotted the prints in their 2017 exhibition: The Body Illustrated: Woodblock Prints, Paintings & Drawings by Paul Binnie.