OBERLIN, OH.- The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College presents three teaching exhibitions in the Ripin Print Gallery on view through June 2, 2007. A reception for the exhibitions will be held Friday, March 9 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, with comments at 6:00 pm in the Ellen Johnson Gallery.

The Cultured Landscape in China and Japan includes painted hand scrolls and woodblock prints from the AMAM’s permanent collection. Organized by Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Dr. Chung-Lan Wang, the exhibition displays an impressive array of landscapes from the early modern period, when landscapes reflected the intertwining relations between literature, art and politics. The works will be used by students in her course “Landscape and Culture in Early Modern East Asia.”

A related installation of paintings from a private collection, Expressions of the Literati in Suzhou, highlights Suzhou artists of the Ming Dynasty. Included are rarely exhibited works by four famous masters of the school, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying. The exhibition has been organized by Andrew Feng (OC ’07) with Dr. Chung-Lan Wang.

A selection of Medieval and Renaissance manuscript leaves from the AMAM’s collection is displayed in Illuminated Manuscripts from the Thirteenth through Sixteenth Centuries. Fine examples of French, English, German and Italian leaves from books including Bibles, private devotional material, and liturgical manuscripts, as is the museum’s most recent acquisition in the field, a 15th-century leaf from Biberach in southern Germany. The exhibition was organized by Professor Erik Inglis and complements his course “Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Oberlin Collections.”