NEW YORK.- The exhibition An Enduring Vision: 17th to 20th Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection is now on view at the Japan Society, until June 20, 2004. The show features 76 paintings in a show organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art. Curated by Tadashi Kobayashi, one of Japan’s leading art historians, the exhibition offers an overview of Japanese painting from the Edo to Meiji periods (17th-early 20th century), featuring the works of renowned masters and important paintings by lesser-known artists. Specific lineages or schools of painting form the focus of the exhibition, which presents the continuity, transformation, and revitalization of tradition from each generation to the next. The exhibition at Japan Society Gallery is also made possible in part by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the Friends of Japan Society Gallery.

Japan Society, America’s leading resource on Japan, is a private, nonprofit, nonpolitical institution offering programs in the arts, business, education and public affairs. Founded in New York in 1907, Japan Society promotes greater understanding and cooperation between Japan and the U.S., and in recent years has reflected a broader Asian and global context in U.S.-Japan relations.