Jennifer Casler Price, senior curator of Asian, African, and ancient American art
A predominant format of Chinese painting, the handscroll is both painted image and documentary history; past and present are in continuous dialogue. Looking at a scroll with signatures, seals, inscriptions, and colophons, a viewer not only sees a pictorial representation but witnesses the history of the painting as it is passed down from generation to generation. In her lecture, Jennifer Casler Price will explore the Kimbell’s mid-14th-century handscroll Returning From a Visit by Zhu Derun, discussing both the relevance of the narrative within a broader historical context and examining the scroll's unique journey—from its creation to the present—as told through the various forms of documentation that have been left behind on its painted surface.
